Over on the league website, MLS has a year long breakdown of the big dates that fans should be looking out for. Sure, we have covered the important bits of the preseason from a Portland Timbers' perspective, but let's check it out just to see if there is anything that we might have missed and what we should be interested in going forward.
Winter
The Combine, the schedule release, the SuperDraft, the Desert Friendlies, the Simple Invitational: we got 'em. What we glossed over was the 2016 USMNT January camp.
Usually one of the US's longer camps where fringe players and guys generally on the outside looking in get a call-up (remember Michael Harrington's brief flirtation with the USMNT?