Tuesday's Column: Galaxy's Buddle and Chivas USA's Galindo can smile again
Read the column here.
Bonus quotes
Here's Buddle on his perspective on last season considering the Galaxy were winning without him:
"It was kind of bittersweet .. Last year I did a lot of dirty things - dirty running we call it, to position myself, to win second balls, to hold the ball up so other players can run on. I just had to take the bitter with the sweet; I'll take the wins over the goals. .. In the past I've probably been a little more selfish, wanting to score goals, but now I put the team first and I appreciate that concept of the game more."
And Buddle said he'll start smiling more soon anyway:
"I've always been quiet, more reserved, maybe I'm trying to hide the braces and stuff. I get them off next week so hopefully I'll look a little bit more excited."
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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.
We need Edson back in form bad. We're pretty thin on top even with him at 100%. The 2 preseason games coming up will be a pretty good indication of things to come.
Any final word on poor Alecko's status. That damn game with Barcelona took both of these guys away from us for a long time. Shame.
Alecko's status should be clarified this week, club officials said Monday (although that's also what they said a week or two ago). The Galaxy is just waiting for the league to sign off on what they want to do.