A couple of old pros will be working the middle when the Red Bulls and New York City FC kick off their 2017 Major League Soccer season Sunday, March 5.

Jair Marrufo will ref the Orlando City-NYC FC game and Mark Geiger will run the show at the Atlanta United-Red Bulls encounter as the Professional Referee Organization (PRO) announced its officiating assignments Friday.

Full details of the officiating crews, as per MLSSoccer.com:

Orlando City SC vs. NYC FC

Orlando City Stadium (5 p.m. ET; ESPN in US, MLS LIVE in Canada)
REF: JAIR MARRUFO
AR1: Corey Rockwell
AR2: Kyle Atkins
4TH: Marcos DeOliveira

Atlanta United vs.  Red Bulls

Bobby Dodd Stadium (7 pm ET; FS1 in US, MLS LIVE in Canada)
REF: MARK GEIGER
AR1: CJ Morgante
AR2: Matthew Nelson
4TH: Ted Unkel

Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.