With pre-season a matter of days away adidas have unveiled the 2018 official match ball for the upcoming MLS season. The Nativo ball takes on a patriotic colour scheme as the countdown to kick off commences.

Unsurprisingly adidas have based the MLS ball on the same design as the Telstar 18, which will be used in the 2018 World Cup this summer. When it comes to something as important and specific as the ball, then there's clearly no point changing the construction of the design just for the sake of it. In short, this is the best adidas football available.

What adidas have done is given the ball its own identity with pixelated colours of the American flag scattered across the white base. As with the previous 2017 ball, adidas have remained with the 'Nativo' title, which is met with adidas and MLS logos. Oh, and MLS Commissioner Don Garber has signed it, cos he bloomin' well can. OK?

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