San Diego Draft Night Experience

San Diego Draft Night Experience 
The draft didn’t go as expected for San Diego fans and me. I watched the live stream and at first, the audio was a problem but then when they fixed that issue and showed the fans you could see the dedication from every one of them and how happy they were to have an expansion team in the MLS from San Diego. Their head coach Mikey Varas made five picks starting with 20-year-old Heine Gikling Bruseth who just arrived at the Orlando city side on August 22, 2024, playing 15 games and starting 11 only scoring 2 goals and 1 assist. A player that in all reality wasn’t very productive and they could’ve picked a better player who has proven themself and isn’t old so they have more good years. I get they want some young players but you should want to compete in your very first season and with these players, they don’t seem to be setting up for instant success, and looks like they want to go after long-term success which might come after a few years of sucking. Their next pick was the 27-year-old Jasper Loffelsend who played 19 games but only started 2 and scored zero goals and zero assists. He only has 2 career goals and 4 assists. He hasn’t done anything really and after skipping over so many good young midfielders is just crazy. I was expecting them to pick either Julian Gressel from Inter Miami or Matias Rojas who are both DAWGS and are proven to produce numbers and be great in attacking play. Their final pick of a player they were keeping was Hamady Diop who was drafted 1st overall in the MLS draft in 2022 and only made four appearances in 2023. In 2024 he never made a single appearance in 2024 for the first team. They then announced that they would send him on loan to Cukaricki a Serbian team where we have made nine appearances for them. Yet another player who hasn’t proven himself and they are just gambling on these players for no reason when they could get a proven winner and a proven playmaker. They made two other picks and traded one for a first-round draft pick and another for 400k which they say that they are saving up for a potential DP centerback that may be announced soon.


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