The Official Benjamin Galindo, Jr. thread

I’ve not been at all impressed from what I’ve seen. I do not believe he has a good soccer mind.

 

He plays right back, and at this time it doesn't look like he will be challenging Lima any time soon.

 

Also, it’s a lot of pressure to play under the bright lights when your father was a legend. Paul Daglish was pretty good in Houston but not so much in the UK. Jordi Cruff was a fine player but not at the big clubs. I think Junior might be much better under less scrutiny.

 

Yeah and Galindo Sr played like 21 years in Liga MX , played for the Mexican national team for 14 and was a great player. I’m sure Benjamin Jr will never be able to fill those shoes. Maybe playing in Reno will do him good.

 

Looks like he can pass long out of the back. He hit some nice 30-40 yard balls on target to bypass the midfield in the highlights

 

Yeah, the Earthquakes these days are about as far as you can get from the bright lights of international football! I hope it works out for him and us, but I’m rather nonplussed by this signing.

 

To me, Galindo Jr at Chivas would be like Michael Jordon’s son at Chicago or Joe Montana’s at the 49ers. Almost impossible to live up to the expectations.

 

The Niners did give Montana's son a tryout form what I recall. I remember the De La Salle coach Bob Ladouceur telling Joe his son wasn't good enough to play HS football for them. I think that was when Joe and Jennifer Montana sold their ranch house/winery up in Napa Valley and moved down to LA.

 

But to be fair, I think plenty of coaches told Joe he was never going to be good enough to play for them

 

You mean Joe Sr? Yes he was like the 7th QB at Notre Dame but yeah he always came out on top.

As far as sons of superstars, like Enrico Chiesa, Diego Simeone and Patrick Kluivert who are in the Serie A but they are nowhere near their dads talent. the jury is still out on Timothy Weah and he was just loaned out from PSG tpo Celtic. Jonathan Klinsmann was also given a token job at Hertha Berlin but only because of his dad's connections. I doubt he will do much there. He may gain experience but other than that, good luck for an American born GK taking over a German one. He may have his citizenship papers and all but they still criticized from what I read saying he still has this "American lackadaisical" mentality and he probably will come back to MLS or the USL some time soon.

 

I wonder why they wouldn't sign him directly to Reno? Can international slots move around on a week to week basis by short term type loans? It seems like we have a horrible international slot problem.

 

We will take him and watch him grow hopefully. I think we are in need of a right back.

 

Doesn't a loan do the same thing as a direct signing to us?

 

The only way to keep him from using an international slot would be to give him a full-season loan to Reno, which precludes him from being called back for any MLS action. They did this with Paul Marie last year.

 

Thanks...I wonder why then they wouldn't sign him direct to Reno and then apply one of those tags that means Quakes have priority. I forget what that's called exactly. Or I guess the Quakes must have other plans regarding international slots. Maybe they're hoping to trade Tarbell for a couple of them

 

There's no particular reason to believe he would be willing to sign a USL contract.

 

There may be benefits with a contract in MLS that he wouldn’t get with a USL deal. Plus the Quakes could sell him to another team if he’s doing really well in Reno. Or trade for an international slot if they get a good deal. How about Magnus for an international slot?

 

Can you guys provide specifics about what's wrong with a USL contract? I thought that teams like Atlanta and Cincy had done that to get rights to players ahead of their MLS teams being official and they were plenty good enough contracts to keep those players happy in the meantime. Are their constraints on what can be in a USL contract? I would have guessed that if anything they can be more freewheeling than MLS and it might even take away the omnipresent risk of trade.

 

I don't know but I'm thinking the main thing wrong with a USL contract is the amount oif money a player is making. I mean if a minimum MLS contract is like $54K I can imagine how much that league pays. Its no wonder that Stanford grad JJ Koval and Indiana's Tanner Thompson , (TT's brother) are all out of the game.

 

Last I knew if a MLS team loans a player to their USL affiliate the MLS team pays the wages of the player at the rate they agreed to for the MLS contract.