Los Angeles FC 2

Um, Vince, you were on the record to take firing a coach rarely helps.

Um, how are you feeling about it? How surprised were you? Um, I di- I don't think any of us saw this coming immediately after that match where we had to play LAFC2.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

It can go many ways.

But the fact that we are so thin, our bench is... really a mishmash of who's who as in who the fuck is who we've got a lot of lads up from lafc2 vasquez uh gets a call up to the bench after being signed from i think an ecuadorian side and his visa is cleared so he's making uh well i guess he's available for selection who else we've jesus is on the bench i'm surprised he's on the bench and he's not starting but apparently he's been out of action for the last couple of weeks due to you know uh due to personal reasons that nobody really knows what is but he's he's available uh the young lad mahailich is also on the bench He is also from LAFC2.

He's made a couple of appearances this season.

A promising young prospect.

He's scored 18 goals in the last two seasons for LAFC2.

Cabral Carter is our backup goalkeeper.

Hassal is still injured.

Ryan Raposo was playing.

And speaking of large jersey numbers, let's talk about the second team, Minnesota United 2.

They win at home against LAFC 2, 3-2.

They actually climbed a fifth in the Western Conference.

The MLS Next Pro pick your opponent in the playoff structure leads to number three Ventura County FC, the LA Galaxy second team choosing Minnesota United to over a lower seed LA FC to to avoid an in city rivalry match and to force Minnesota United to travel.

The first...

Charlie Kosakoff, the 22-year-old from San Diego, signed with LAFC2 this season and has four goals and three primary assists in 24 matches.

He was an NCAA national champion with the Washington Huskies in 2025, and this was his second short-term agreement signed with LAFC back in August when we also signed goalkeeper Mark Gomez to a short-term agreement.

And then the second one we would actually see take the pitch for LAFC, Marius Ayanero, the 18-year-old Canadian youth international.

Chose to play the fifth seed instead of the sixth seed.

I think in part because the sixth seed is LAFC2.

I think they're just called LAFC2.

LAFC2, their crosstown rivals team.

And so I think they were smart to sort of say, no, we'd rather host a team that that has to travel across the country to get here rather than a team that can pile on a bus or drive their own cars or whatever to get to the game.

So might be smart, but still, mortal enemies.

It's LA Galaxy's team.

Six is LAFC 2.

So you get Ventura County saying, yeah, do we want El Trafico Dose? Yes.

Right? Or do we not want the rivalry game in the playoffs? We want to avoid that until as late as possible.

We're going to go with the fifth seed because we want to avoid LAFC 2, who get to basically play at home.

Number five is Minnesota United, so they would have to travel to LA.

Otherwise, both teams can sleep in there.

We're certainly going to do that.

And what we do, by the way, in all of our episodes is we do a little news and notes segment and a little check-in on LAFC2.

Sometimes we do This Day in LAFC History, but I'm shelving that one so that we can get this bad boy going.

And I want to start with what might be some breaking news uncovered by Josh Gross.

Well, at least LAFC two did the job and they did so to clinch a playoff spot.

So congratulations to LAFC two for clinching a playoff spot.

Tommy Mihalik, had a goal and an assist for LAFC2.

Charlie Kosakoff added a brace as part of their five goals.

He says this kid is special.

LAFC2 acquires forward Sungjae Yoo from K-League side Jeju SK.

Through the sprint season of June 2027, Jeju SK had joined the Red and Gold Partnership in September of last year.

Yoo was listed at six foot and at just 18 years old, made his debut for Jeju in the Korean First Division, the K League there.

So it's an odd time to bring him in with LAFC2 only having two matches left in their season before playoffs.

But he's a guy that some are saying around the league, when we go out to Coachella next year, if you're wondering who the six-foot Korean kid is that's running around there, it might be Sung Jae Yoo.

And Philly, it's nice to see that red and gold partnership under the Bayern umbrella there coming to fruition again for LAFC.

So it'll be interesting to see.