Galaxy Squad Updates
New names and numbers up in the Galaxy locker room this weekend. Most are just training with the team.
*#26 Mike Stevens, a UCLA product who played for the Galaxy Under-20 team, and began training with the senior squad last week.
*#31 Goalkeeper Kevin Guppy of Chino Hills, a Cal State Northridge product and former Big West Goalkeeper of the Year, who played in the PDL last year.
*#33 Brighton & Hove Albion utility man Chris Birchall, who headed back to England Monday and will join Trinidad & Tobago for their World Cup qualifiers in early June before likely rejoining the Galaxy.
*#35 UCLA goalkeeper Brian Perk, who has one year of college eligibility left, and played for the Galaxy Under-20 team, which is why he's training with the first team as of last week.
#36 Ian Sarachan, Dave Sarachan's son, who took a semester off school back in Illinois and has actually been training with the team for a while.
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a BIG THANK YOU for those Infos
I sneaked to one of their training while there during my vacation.
Sesay was training with them and only Valentin and Franklin were not there.
Nick replies: Hi Ben, hope you enjoyed your trip over here. FYI, Izzy scored a couple of goals for Hollywood United Hitmen, the new local PDL entry last weekend; Valentin is on a month's loan at the USL team in Cleveland.