Mark Delgado ready to embark on ‘next chapter’ as part of LAFC roster overhaul
LA TimesMark Delgado was born and raised in Southern California and played six MLS seasons here. “I had to pull out the GPS and make sure I was going the right way,” Delgado said after his first training session with LAFC in a back corner of the Cal State L.A. campus. The reigning MLS champion Galaxy, struggling to squeeze under the league salary cap, sent Delgado up the freeway last week when it traded him to LAFC for $400,000 in general allocation money. In coach Greg Vanney’s possession-based game with the Galaxy, Delgado ranked eighth in the league in passing last season, completing more than 91% of the nearly 2,000 passes he attempted. Regardless of what Delgado accomplishes on the field for LAFC, the trade is already an historic one because after beginning his career with Chivas USA at age 16, then spending the last three seasons with the Galaxy — both teams that trained and played at what is now Dignity Health Sports Park — suiting up with LAFC will make him the only man to play for all three of Southern California’s MLS teams.
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