{"id":200508,"date":"2022-10-15T01:48:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T01:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=200508"},"modified":"2022-10-15T12:06:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T12:06:42","slug":"riqui-puig-and-gast-n-brugman-are-the-force-behind-the-galaxy-s-rejuvenation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/riqui-puig-and-gast-n-brugman-are-the-force-behind-the-galaxy-s-rejuvenation","title":{"rendered":"Riqui Puig and Gast\u00f3n Brugman are the force behind the Galaxy&#8217;s rejuvenation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was June, Galaxy coach Greg Vanney remembers, a month in which his team didn&#8217;t win a game, when Jovan Kirovski, the team&#8217;s technical director, phoned. &#8220;Hey, we might have a chance to get Riqui Puig . What do you think?&#8221; Vanney says Kirovski asked. It was a rhetorical question. The Galaxy&#8217;s midfield, a toxic mix of injuries and inconsistency, was weighing the team down. Puig, who made his debut with Barcelona as a teenager, could remedy that. &#8220;I was really surprised,&#8221; Vanney said. &#8220;And of course it always come with, &#8216;Oh I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s a reality or not.&#8217; &#8220; Less than two months later, it became a reality when Puig made his MLS debut . A team that didn&#8217;t win in June became one that couldn&#8217;t lose, dropping only one of its final 11 games to earn its way into the playoffs, where it will face Nashville SC on Saturday in the Galaxy&#8217;s first postseason game at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midsummer additions Riqui Puig and Gast&#243;n Brugman have reinvigorated the Galaxy as they prepare for their MLS Cup playoff showdown against Nashville SC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,1,140],"tags":[147,138,58],"class_list":["post-200508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mls","category-news","category-soccer","tag-mls","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}