Spanish star and World Cup champion Juan Mata has joined the expansion of San Diego FC’s ownership group, making him the first active international football player to hold an ownership stake in Major League Soccer. “Joining San Diego FC as a partner is an exciting opportunity to help build something truly special in a city and league that are experiencing …
No expansion team in MLS history had a more successful launch than LAFC, which played in two MLS Cup finals, two CONCACAF Champions League finals and won two Supporters’ Shields and a U.S. Open Cup in its first six-plus seasons. So when Penn migrated south three years ago and began laying the foundation for another expansion club, this time in …
Major League Soccer expansion team San Diego FC has signed winger Hirving “Chucky” Lozano as the club’s first designated player. Lozano, a product of Pachuca’s academy system, said he was impressed by San Diego FC’s Right To Dream residential academy, currently being built on the Sycuan Reservation in El Cajon, California. “The club’s project and plans for San Diego’s Right …
SAN DIEGO — Landon Donovan’s San Diego Loyal soccer club was born on March 7, 2020, playing its first match a few days before the pandemic shut down the world. Players and fans knew since late August that the second-tier team was going to fold at season’s end, in large part because of the impending arrival of the expansion MLS …
