San Diego FC may have no time to ease into their inaugural MLS marketing campaign.
The enlargement crew will open in opposition to the Los Angeles Galaxy, the defending MLS Cup champions, on Sunday afternoon in Carson, Calif.
The league newcomers will get to see the Galaxy unfurl their league-record sixth championship banner following a considerably stunning run to the title final season.
Los Angeles will not be at full power, as star midfielder Riqui Puig is sidelined long run following knee surgical procedure and ahead Joseph Paintsil is out with a quad damage. However little drop-off is anticipated from the Galaxy.
Veteran Marco Reus would be the focus of the Galaxy’s offense, and winger Gabriel Pec is about to take an enormous bounce ahead this season. The Galaxy additionally added ahead Christian Ramirez in a commerce with the Columbus Crew, ahead Matheus Nascimento on mortgage from Brazilian facet Botafogo and Mathias Jorgensen, a Danish heart again who has performed for quite a few groups in Europe, most not too long ago for Belgian powerhouse Anderlecht.
The midfield can be anchored by Edwin Cerrillo, one of many league’s finest defensive-minded gamers on the place.
“I believed it was two weeks for us,” Galaxy coach Greg Vanney stated concerning the crew’s preseason camp and match. “An enormous a part of it was getting guys’ legs beneath them and health and attending to combine some guys into our system. We blended in guys, and guys had been capable of adapt inside video games. I do know guys are able to get began.”
San Diego FC characteristic the skills of Mexican nationwide crew legend Hirving “Chucky” Lozano and Anders Dreyer, a Danish winger who was Jorgensen’s teammate at Anderlecht final season.
The brand new membership additionally consists of winger Luca de la Torre, a San Diego native who has performed on the U.S. males’s nationwide crew, and Paddy McNair, a Northern Eire worldwide heart again who has performed for Manchester United, Sunderland and Middlesbrough in England.
Certain, there are questions — and loads of them — about San Diego FC, as there are with any enlargement crew. However coach Mikey Varas likes his crew and the progress it has made to date.
“We’re targeted on three buckets: ensuring that we’re wholesome and match as an enlargement roster that is rising; be certain that the sport mannequin type of performs is obvious; after which be certain that we develop a preventing crew spirit amongst the crew,” Varas stated.
“I feel we have had a really profitable preseason when it comes to maximizing each second that we have had collectively and doing these three issues.”
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