This is the final part in our series looking at the best players to wear (almost) every number in MLS history. To read the other stories, click here.



It’s been a week of going number-by-number and debating which MLS players can lay claim to being the greatest to wear their particular digit(s), and one thing has become exceedingly clear: Major League Soccer does not typically adhere to traditional kit numerology. It makes sense, really — in 25 years, the league has earned a reputation for doing things its own way, sometimes for better, often times for worse.



Here then is a collection of notable remaining shirt numbers and the players who sported them, often bucking tradition in doing so.



No. 9 / 99



MLS certainly has more than a few notable No. 9s — players who fit the traditional definition of the number as often larger-than-life goalscorers. Juan Pablo Angel and Obafemi Martins were both prolific scorers, center forwards...