To go in the completely opposite direction of this thread, I submit for your consideration: Code: Naldo - Wolyneic Cazumba - Memo - Buffalo - Shue Babayaro - Dominguez - Boyens - Russell Wicks Coached by Frank Yallop and playing in the bumper sticker kit.
I think there's also relative opponent skill level to take in to account. Dan & Robin were immense in their day, I'm not sure they could have shut down Giovinco as well as Omar & Leo did. But that's a whole different can of worms.
Funny I was thinking of the same exercise. I might throw in Thiago up front with Naldo another in a seemingly unending stream of crap Brazilian forwards. Also might throw in the Costa Rican defender Samspon brought in.
Haha - I think Troy Roberts needs a mention in central defense. The Costa Rican was Michael Umana? But what about that forward we had for a short time - he scored a great header on a Becks corner - Concacaf guy who did great in the gold cup. I'm thinking Costa Rican too but he might have been Honduran or Guatamalan. Also, Abel Xavier.
Oh, you're talking about Pavon! Yeah, he was a big swing and a miss as well. The Costa Rican duo of Michael Umaña and Pablo Chinchilla were both pretty terrible for us. Oddly enough both went on to have good careers and Umaña in particular was a big part of Costa Rica's impressive 2014 World Cup run.
This guy would be better than Yallop: http://m.goal.com/s/en-us/news/1110...lary-cap-makes-mls-tough-for-foreign-managers
Yeah... Yallop was nothing compared to Ruud. That guy was, arguably, the worst coach in the history of MLS.
I missed that. Elizabeth Shue singing the National Anthem at a game that first year made it worth while to keep him on the roster.
This is not correct! He's the starting left back. We never actually got to see him play but he's so infamous he has to be in there. I considered Ruud but honestly I think Yallop hurt us more in the long run with the moves he made. At least Ruud, as awful as he was, got Buddle into form and wasn't in charge long enough to make too many lasting moves. Thinking about it now though, he was the epitome of everything that was wrong with the Beckham experiment and really was a worse straight up coach than Yallop. I'm fine with it either way .
I don't know. I mean, Ruud was really, truly terrible, except the offense went on a tear. But he was our coach for what, a half season? Yallop did more long term damage in his year and a half, I think, plus his incompetence paved the way for the Beckham camp/Ruud takeover. But my memory sucks, so who knows. Edit: I see others are making the Yallop argument!
Good try but a glaring hole in that team - don't worry, I fixed it below. Code: Naldo - Wolyneic Cazumba - Memo - Buffalo - Shue Babayaro - Dominguez - Boyens - Russell Cudicini* *Better know to some of you as Flappacini. Wicks occasionally had some very good moments in between the pipes - some blinders too. But Wicks gave you hope while Flappacine sucked hope out of fan like.... well I thought of some examples but I'll keep them to myself. I also think Juan Angel deserves consideration, at least on the bench. After all he was the focal point of our offense for 22 games during which he scored 3 goals and whiffed dozens. Also agree that Troy Roberts has to be at least on the bench for all time worst LA defender.
David junior lopez? Was that the name of the Brazilian center back who played the first half of the 2012 season?
Other than being a general scum bag, he actually did score some timely goals during his time here. One could also consider Pando I suppose, his 10 seconds of useful play that brought us our second cup aside
Pando warrants his own list, and due to #4 he can't be on any other lists: Led the league in shots while scoring not a single goal from the run of play. Skillfully executed a double-bank PK off the post and then off Joe Cannon to finally score in the last regular season game. Scored an all-time Galaxy goal in extra time to win the Championship. I'm pretty sure he is the only Galaxy player to receive a lifetime global ban from soccer. Perhaps this leads us back to #1?
I agree with Yallop on the basis that to make worst coach you have to actually show up and coach, which Ruud did not. He took himself out of the argument by missing practices and not bothering to actually coach.
Ah, the quandry that has perplexed philosophers for the ages: Is it worse to try to coach and fail, or to fail to try and coach? My heads gonna explode. I'd have to vote for Ruud, though. His lack of, well just about everything, took a few years for us to recover from. Dark days for sure.