{"id":74816,"date":"2022-07-08T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/el-tr-fico-showcases-special-rivalry-between-lafc-s-ilie-s-nchez-galaxy-s-v-ctor-v-zquez"},"modified":"2022-07-08T00:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T00:58:00","slug":"el-tr-fico-showcases-special-rivalry-between-lafc-s-ilie-s-nchez-galaxy-s-v-ctor-v-zquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/el-tr-fico-showcases-special-rivalry-between-lafc-s-ilie-s-nchez-galaxy-s-v-ctor-v-zquez","title":{"rendered":"El Tr&#225;fico showcases special rivalry between LAFC&#8217;s Ilie S&#225;nchez, Galaxy&#8217;s V&#237;ctor V&#225;zquez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Galaxy midfielder V&#237;ctor V&#225;zquez controls the ball between CF Montreal forward Mason Toye, left, and defender Alistair Johnston during play at Dignity Sports Health Park. (Alex Gallardo \/ Associated Press)Just 10 of the more than 800 players in MLS were born in Spain, so those who have made the journey here tend to be close. Until the whistle blows.&#8220;We are like brothers,&#8221; Galaxy midfielder V&#237;ctor V&#225;zquez said. &#8220;Of course, once the game starts, we are not anymore friends. For 90 minutes.&#8221;Or longer. Earlier this season V&#225;zquez&#8217;s Galaxy twice beat LAFC, the team who employs Ilie S&#225;nchez. Before each game, V&#225;zquez received a warm hug from S&#225;nchez, a former neighbor in Barcelona. After each game he got a stern text.&#8220;He told me, &#8216;Don&#8217;t call me because I&#8217;m mad about the result,&#8217; &#8221; V&#225;zquez said with a grin Thursday. &#8220;He said, &#8216;Don&#8217;t talk to me for a week.&#8217; &#8221;The former teammates&#8217; friendship will be tested again Friday when their clubs meet for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 10 of the more than 800 players in MLS were born in Spain, so those who have made the journey here tend to be close. Until the whistle blows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,1],"tags":[147,138,58],"class_list":["post-74816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mls","category-news","tag-mls","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74816","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=74816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}