The most meaningful and consequential moments of the 2026 MLS All-Star Game can’t be viewed by the public and won’t be captured by cameras.Around Wednesday’s MLS All-Star Game against the Liga MX All-Stars, owners will convene for a Board of Governors meeting. The future of the league will be discussed, as it is a handful of times a year at BOG meetings.Though the game itself has lost a little luster this year — with World Cup fatigue as well as another iteration of the top MLS players vs. the best of Liga MX — the week itself remains crucial with those meetings. And for fans, it becomes a centralized few days of celebration. All-Star Games are fun, if imperfect. Particularly so within the context of global soccer. And that’s OK.On the field, Lionel Messi and Rodrigo De Paul won’t be present. Current MLS Golden Boot leader Hugo Cuypers also won’t be in attendance because after he was named to the All-Star roster, CF Monterrey signed him from the Chicago Fire for a fee of $7.5 million.Son Heung-min, Thomas Müller and others will hold down the fort for MLS. Here’s everything you need to know about MLS All-Star week.Son Heung-min will represent MLS in Wednesday’s All-Star Game against Liga MX. (Kiyoshi Mio / Imagn Images)Who are the biggest MLS stars playing?Son headlines the roster alongside Müller. Coming just 10 days after the conclusion of the biggest soccer event ever staged on American soil, there is naturally a World Cup theme to the squad, as the league seeks to capitalize on the flurry of interest in the sport that coursed throughout North America this summer.The likes of Maxime Crepeau and Richie Laryea (both Canada), Steven Moreira (Cape Verde), Petar Musa (Croatia) and several U.S. national team members are set to feature Wednesday.Sebastian Berhalter was named to the team but is completing a transfer to Middlesbrough, as first reported by The Athletic. Max Arfsten was named to the team, but Boro is pursuing him as well.There is also the theme of young players, led by Real Salt Lake’s Zavier Gozo, 19, and Red Bull New York’s Julian Hall, 18.