Hello and welcome to another edition of the L.A. Times weekly soccer newsletter. I’m Kevin Baxter, the Times’ soccer writer. We’ve got a lot to get to today, including updates involving the Galaxy, the Los Angeles Football Club, the U.S. national team’s 13-month search for a permanent head coach and Diego Maradona’s astonishing success as manager of a second-tier club in Mexico.
But we start with former World Cup star Eric Wynalda, whose family was among the hundreds that had their lives turned upside down by the Woolsey fire. The blaze swept through their Westlake Village neighborhood with scant warning, leaving them time to evacuate with little more than the clothes on their backs and a few important documents.