The LA Galaxy played a lot of young players in the preseason games we got to watch this year. Sometimes, there were so many young players on the field that LA Galaxy II trialists were getting real minutes in preseason with the first team.
Part of that was out of necessity, with a group of Galaxy first teamers — Julian Araujo, Sebastian Lletget, Jonathan dos Santos and Efrain Alvarez — out on international duty for part of the preseason. Part of it was newcomers being signed, getting their paperwork, coming back from injuries and so forth.