He came off the bench and played just 12 minutes, and didn’t even get his picture taken by the wire services after making his LA Galaxy competitive debut.
But Gordon Wild was a sparkplug in that debut, setting up LA’s goal in a 2-1 loss Monday against the Portland Timbers in the MLS is Back Tournament and scoring another goal, that was unfortunately called back on an offside call.
It was only 12 minutes, but the German looks like he can add an element to the Galaxy attack moving forward.
First, some background on Wild: The attacker came through the Mainz academy setup in his native country before moving to the United States to play college soccer.