LA Galaxy 2022 Player Postmortem: Sacha Kljestan

Sacha Kljestan returned for his third season with the LA Galaxy in 2022, the 13th in MLS in his long career.

Turning 37 in September, Kljestan admitted way back in 2020 that he was thinking about retirement, and it’ll be interesting to see what he chooses to do in this offseason, if he wants to continue on or if this will be the end of the road.

This season, injury and age seemed to firmly put Kljestan in permanent reserve status in MLS. He has been splitting time between starting and coming off the bench dating back to 2019 with Orlando City, but this season he almost exclusively served as a late-game sub for LA. Considering he’s had success in the past in entering the game as a substitute…