To complete GalaxyKoa list (based on this two videos : https://www.lagalaxy.com/post/2018/...la-galaxy-training-session-2018?autoplay=true and .@LAGalaxy head coach Sigi Schmid and new additions @OlaKamara & @ChrisPontius13 spoke with @LAGalaxyInsider about building chemistry during preseason training camp. pic.twitter.com/D45Fvc5JB0— Spectrum SportsNet (@SpectrumSN) January 23, 2018 ) : Under Contract 1 - Bingham 3 - Cole 4 - Romney 5 - Steres 6 - Baggio 7 - Alessandrini 8 - Jona 10 - Gio 11 - Kamara 12 - Sylvestre 14 - Carrasco 15 - Lassiter 16 - Skjelvik (yes it's him) 17 - Lletget 19 - Pontius 20 - Hilliard-Arce (it's him indeed) 21 - Arrellano 22 - Klimenta (it's him) 24 - Boateng 25 - Feltscher 26 - Efrain Alvarez (G2) 28 - Ciani 38 - BJIV 29 - Payeras (G2) 36 - I think I recognized him in a video, Adrian Vera (MVP from G2 last year, #49 last year) 41 - Vom Steeg (G2) 51 - Zubak (G2) 57 - Dhillon (G2) 69 - it's indeed Miguel Aguilar with a new beard (G2, #27 last year) 88 - Pedro ?? - Kitchen Others 31 - black guy, I don't recognize him from the first team, the second team or even the Academy. Trialist? 47 - Sepulveda (Academy) 55 - Ulysses Llanez (Academy) 62 - Alex Mendez (Academy) (though it's possible I've switched him and Llanez) 63 - Jake Arteaga (Academy) A few more observations : - first team, G2 and a few Academy players training together. - a few players missing : like GalaxyKoa said, the two Draft picks. Feltscher is not suited for training too, maybe he's injured? - two G2 players have switched numbers to get ones "closer" to the first team : Adrian Vera (#36, but not 100% sure it's him) and Jefrey Payeras (#29). I don't know if it means anything right now.
I gotta say- I'm so happy to see this. I know nothing has really happened yet, and no games have been played, so in a real way, we don't know what this team is going to look like. But it's been a looooong off season and I'm stoked at the prospect of seeing our Galaxy again.
It’s just nice to have some cautious optimism that this season won’t be a disaster and some thought and planning went into the construction of this roster.
Feltscher was in photos taken in the locker room, but I didn't see him of in any of the pictures on the field. Maybe there still working on getting him a visa or other paperwork so he can't participate in training.
there's a video on the galaxy site called the boys are back! scenes from the first training session. i believe at :23 in the video, it's him sitting on the right side of the bench. he's dressed out and looks like he's been participating. maybe it's not him, but I think it is. anyone else confirm or deny?
Didn't watch that video, but he's in the video linked about about 1:25 in, sitting on a bench. Probably the same shot from the video you're referring too.
Nice job Sigi! Only thing that worries me is that we still have Ciani. I don't see how this can be a good thing. In practices I hope he doesn't interfere want our younger cb's getting used to playing with each other as soon as possible. In games he will either start (bad) or sit the bench (bad because he'll probably be unhappy and a waste of salary cap). I guess in theory there is a tiny, tiny possibility he's improved so much over the offseason that he will be a positive contributor as a starter but I have huge doubts about that. Certain aspects of a players game don't change overnight - things like foot speed (or lack of), like being slow to react when there are loose balls or other chaos in the box, poor judgement about when and when not to commit to tackles/headers, susceptibility to costly mental blunders, etc. Worst case is he is the starter by default for say the first quarter of the season and then has to be replaced due to poor play. Then our new cb pairing will be behind and have to learn to play together on the fly during meaningful games. Otherwise, I'm happy! Go Galaxy!
I am holding onto hope that Ciani last season is not the Ciani we could be getting this season. He did come into our team basically 3/4 of the way through the season, and he hadn't played a competitive match in months. He also was thrown into a terrible team. I am really hoping he can turn it around. But then again, he did very little if anything last season to prove to me he can even be a half decent MLS defender. He was so incredibly slow, and his positional awareness was terrible.
Even if Ciani is not in our plans, at this stage you still bring him into camp and give him the chance to show what he can do. That approach is true if we plan to play him, sell him or cut him before whatever the deadline is where we can do that to get out of his contract’s cap impact. I guess what I’m saying is I don’t think the fact he’s out there leading the line in practice this early in preseason means much.
I call double BS!! Part of why Gio held onto the ball so much is that Gyasi rarely made the runs. Though that's only part of the reason. Gio also just holds onto the ball too much regardless, as you pointed out.
Simple solution then. Cut Gio and bring in McCormack. We need a good striker more than we need a decent offensive midfielder, which is basically all Gio is.
Really? I don't know what games you were watching because I don't remember that at all. What I remember was Gyasi not getting the ball passed to him by his teammates who clearly lacked confidence in his shot no matter how many good runs he made. This kid made his young career off of being able to shine in the spaces that his teammates created for him to run into so he could work his magic. Gio is rarely the kinda of dude to make guys around him better by doing such things unfortunately. He has sadly done this his whole career. But he has ZERO excuses this year though as Sigi has created a squad that should be able to score tons of goals without him; (in the same manner that the Mexican National Team does without him.) If this team is playing well and if he isn't pushing close to 10 goals by July then it's time for him to give up that DP slot and for LA to end the Giovanni Dos Santos Experiment as far as I'm concerned.
The silver lining to a gut punch of a season is that just a couple nice roster moves the following offseason has you feeling so optimistic......
Giovani dos Santos, Jonathan dos Santos and Carlos Vela all included in the Mexico squad to face Bosnia next Wednesday. The rest of the squad is scheduled to be announced on Thursday. #eltrieng https://t.co/l4O9UjKE9i— Tom Marshall (@mexicoworldcup) January 23, 2018 Not sure where to put this but Dos Santos brother are being called up to NT
Hearing from a source at #USMNT camp that Rubio Rubin "has looked good, real sharp."— Kristian Dyer (@KristianRDyer) January 24, 2018
What is this "magic" you are referring to? Gyasi looked promising about 3 - 4 years ago, and popped in a bunch of goals one of those years off some good service, but that promise just turned into disappointment because he seemed to hit a plateau and never improved, and actually regressed. Never developed the promise into any attacking vision or sense. He was more content to play more and more defensively. And nobody "clearly" avoided passing the ball to Gyasi because they lacked confidence in his shooting.
If Rubio is fine being a back up to Kamara, then I'd take him. He is american and we still don't have a good back up for Kamara. This is pretty much our whole team at the moment barring a couple of reserves. As you can see, only the back up striker spot is a bit iffy, but even without signing a backup, we have Lassiter and Jamieson that can fill in that spot.
Madness! Having two players for every position on the field. Where are the carefree days of letting everyone have a go at playing right back or letting the back 5 draw names out of a hat to see who plays where.
I don't think you tell Rubin that he's going to be a back up. You just tell him to come in and earn his spot. If Gio is hurt or ends up going to the World Cup, there's enough minutes for Rubin to get some serious playing time.