Peers, teammates, and friends, on Saturday it looks likely that Chicharito and Carlos Vela will square off for the first time in MLS, when the LA Galaxy host LAFC in 2022’s first edition of El Trafico.
It’s an interesting match-up, not only because the (currently former) Mexican internationals have played together going back to their days as teenagers, came through the same Chivas youth system and criss-crossed the globe in similar ways and have both started this season healthy and in form. Each player has an MLS Player of the Week award in 2022, they both have four goals in five games to start this campaign, and they remain quite possibly the biggest stars in the league at the moment.