New England Revolution acquire defender Fofana
The New England Revolution have acquired center back Mamadou Fofana from Ligue 2 side Amiens SC. The 26-year-old Mali international defender is under contract through 2027 with an option for 2028. The deal utilized Targeted Allocation Money (TAM).
MLS icons Abbott, Armas & Rimando elected to National Soccer Hall of Fame
Major League Soccer legends Chris Armas and Nick Rimando, as well as former MLS president and deputy commissioner Mark Abbott, are part of the five-person 2025 class elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
MLS NEXT Fest, the premier winter showcase event in North American youth soccer, will kick off on Friday, December 6 at the Empire Polo Ground in Indio, Calif. and run through Wednesday, December 11. More than 400 of the best youth soccer teams will compete at the fourth-annual edition of the competition, featuring nearly 630 matches and over 7,000 players. MLS NEXT Fest provides an opportunity for top talent within the program to be evaluated by college, national team, and professional scouts.
Chicago. Toronto. Atlanta. The others. Take heart. If the Galaxy can do it, you can too.
For almost a decade, LA were stuck in big club purgatory. They still spent big. They still had the brand. They didn’t have the results.
A rotating cast of huge names couldn’t get the Galaxy back to the top. Steven Gerrard didn’t win a trophy. Giovani and Jonathan dos Santos didn’t either. And Zlatan Ibrahimović, Chicharito and Douglas Costa couldn’t change that trend. The Galaxy were still showing a level of commitment to being among the best in the league and coming up well short time and time again. They were living one of the most frustrating existences in MLS.
It’s hard to be sympathetic, though. Not just because of all the trophies they won before that era. But because so much of their efforts to get back to the top were surface-level. They had the resources to maintain success and were content to squander them. That sounds harsh, but folks, the Galaxy barely, I mean barely had a scouting department before Greg Vanney arrived in 2021.
“It was a recommendation-based scouting plan,” Vanney told the LA Times in 2022. “Agents would recommend players…
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