LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles FC beat Toronto FC 4-2 during the weekend. Here are five things we learned from the match: 1. Vela steps up to shoulder the captain’s role In the team’s first outing since the departure of former captain Laurent Ciman, Carlos Vela strapped on the captain’s armband and proved his role […]
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Los Angeles FC took a 3-0 lead against Toronto FC in the 49th minute of their Saturday night match at BMO Field in Canada. Diego Rossi scored the first two in the 23rd and 47th minutes. Lee Nguyen then tapped in a Carlos Vela assist in minute 49. TFC fought back late in the game, […]
After giving up a two-goal lead in regulation, playing 30 minutes of scoreless extra time and then facing elimination in an eight-round penalty shootout, the Houston Dynamo finally got to celebrate and advance to the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final for the first time. The Dynamo beat Los Angeles FC 3-3 (7-6) in a […]
Los Angeles FC’s Diego Rossi single-handedly kept his team’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final hopes alive Wednesday night. Rossi scored all three LAFC goals in regulation, including a stoppage-time equalizer to force extra time with the Houston Dynamo. Watch a replay of Rossi’s equalizer in the video above. See his first two goals below. […]
HARRISON, N.J. — With the New York Red Bulls and Los Angeles Football Club locked in a stalemate with 10 minutes remaining in regulation, Bradley Wright-Phillips took down a long ball from Marc Rzatkowski with his right foot and took a second touch into the box. The ball was on the foot of one of […]
Laurent Ciman hadn’t played for Los Angeles Football Club since May 26. That’s 360 minutes of game time without LAFC’s captain, absent because of his obligations to the Belgian national team. Ciman, the last player cut by Belgium before the World Cup, returned to LAFC last week, and in his return to the lineup Saturday, […]
After several days of rumors, it’s finally confirmed — Portuguese midfielder André Horta is officially the newest member of LAFC. The 21-year-old will bolster a midfield that stood as the biggest question mark for the young club at the season’s start. This is the program’s second addition in the last week, as the team picked […]
Carlos Vela has played around the world — most recently for La Liga’s Real Sociedad. But he’s a newbie to Major League Soccer. Just two games in, the 29-year-old star from Mexico is already having an impact for Los Angeles FC. In the expansion team’s season opener against the Seattle Sounders, fellow newcomer Diego Rossi […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”43″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ template=”default” ngg_triggers_display=”never” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Here are three things we learned from Real Salt Lake’s 5-1 home loss to Los Angeles FC. 1. RSL has some shaping up to do Scoring five goals on the road seems unfathomable, but it’s exactly what LAFC accomplished. The altitude was supposed to […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”38″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ template=”default” ngg_triggers_display=”never” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The Los Angeles Football Club began its MLS history with a rare feat Sunday: a win over Brian Schmetzer’s Seattle Sounders at CenturyLink Field. The 1-0 result in front of an announced crowd of 40,070 was just the second time that Seattle has been […]