Oriol Rosell joins Riqui Puig’s Galaxy

The ex-azulgrana Oriol ‘Uri’ Rosell has signed until the end of the season with los angeles galaxy where another Barcelona fan is also playing, Riqui Puig. He will wear the number 16 shirt and will have ex-madridista Javier Hernández ‘Chicharito’ as a teammate.

The midfielder of puigreig The 30-year-old joined the Los Angeles discipline a few days after the start of the 28th season of MLSthe first division of football USA. The next Saturday the fire was opened Nashville-New York City in a league that included this year the city of st louis and consists of two conferences with a total of 29 teams.

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Rosell has recorded two goals and five assists in 125 regular-season games for the MLS played (100 starts) in eight seasons with Sporting Kansas City (2012-14, 2022) and Orlando City SC (2018-21). In particular, Rosell helped Sporting KC to win the second title of MLS Cup for the club in 2013, notching one goal and two assists in 31 regular season appearances (31 starts) that season.

“Uri is a very talented and competitive defensive midfielder with MLS Cup experience,” said the coach and sporting director of LA Galaxy, greg vanney. “We look forward to Uri adding depth and leadership to our group.”

During the 2022 campaign, Rosell recorded one assist in 18 games played (13 starts) in 906 minutes played Sporting KC. He also played four years with Orlando City, where he made 64 league appearances (48 starts) and recorded two assists.

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Before joining Orlando in 2018, Rosell spent four seasons at Portugalplaying on Sporting Clube de Portugal (2014-18) and loaned to Vitoria Sport Club (2016), the Os Belenenses Football Club (2016-17) and the Portimonense Sporting club (2017-18). Rosell started his career at La Masia, the youth academy FC Barcelonaand debuted in Barcelona B in 2011 playing 6 games.