Pan-Pacific Championship Galaxy Gameday
The Galaxy (pre-) season begins tonight with the first of two doubleheaders at Home Depot Center in four days.
Up first at 5:30 p.m. are Suwon Samsung Bluewings (Korea) vs. Shandong Luneng Taishan FC (China) followed at 8 p.m. by the Galaxy against Oita Trinita (Japan). Plenty of tickets starting at $15 are available, although both games will also be shown live on Fox Soccer Channel.
Fortunately for the Galaxy, considering last season's results and the absence of David Beckham and Landon Donovan, the team also apparently known as the "Terrible Turtles" (!) are in fact fairly damn terrible according to this Web site that has more information than you ever wanted to know about the franchise.
Not much time today to add more, but I plan to blog from the game so join me this evening for updates and quotes from coaches and players
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Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
Let's hope those turtles make us look good, we sure could use a morale booster after this DB fiasco. Go Galaxy!