Curt Onalfo wasn’t even nine games into his stint as the Galaxy’s new coach, yet it looked as if he was already headed toward the exit.
His team hadn’t won in a month. Two weeks earlier a pair of players had refused to shake his hand after being subbed off. And now, with the Galaxy down by two goals after just 17 minutes of a May 6 game with the Chicago Fire, the StubHub Center crowd was loudly calling for his head.
In rapid succession the coach seemingly had lost his team and its fans and was about to lose his job.