Mark Yedlin

Left Wingback - LA Galaxy U18
2 Sep 2029
Sunday
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84 Edition

The LA Galaxy Gazette

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Age has not caught Kyogo Furuhashi yet — 8.15

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.15 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Joseph Paintsil wants more than LA Galaxy are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Jakob Glesnes stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jakob Glesnes and LA Galaxy agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Lucas Sanabria shuts the door

Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Boardroom

Graduation day at LA Galaxy

7 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Jakob Glesnes falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Marco Reus

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

John Pepi steps up from the LA Galaxy academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. John Pepi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

LA Galaxy promote Mark Reyna from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mark Reyna has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief