{"id":572244,"date":"2026-02-07T05:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/572244\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:59:10","slug":"2026-la-galaxy-academy-professional-call-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/572244\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 LA Galaxy Academy Professional Call-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Feb. 6, 2026 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The LA Galaxy announced today that academy product <strong>Eric Preston<\/strong> has signed a professional contract with the club\u2019s second team, Ventura County Football Club (VCFC).<\/p>\n<p>Preston joined the Galaxy Academy in August 2024 and has since earned multiple U.S. National Team invitations, trained regularly with the second team, and helped lead the U-19 side to the 2024\u201325 MLS NEXT Championship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feb. 6, 2026 \u2013 The<\/strong> LA Galaxy announced today that former academy product <strong>Julian Placias<\/strong> has signed a professional contract with the club\u2019s second team, Ventura County Football Club (VCFC).<\/p>\n<p>Placias joined the Galaxy Academy in 2021 and competed with the program through the end of the 2023\u201324 season. He was a key member of the 2023 U-17 MLS NEXT Cup Championship team, where he finished as the tournament\u2019s top goal scorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 6, 2026 \u2013\u00a0The LA Galaxy announced today that academy product Eric Preston has signed a professional contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":572245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[43808,1582,276,2961,224,5337,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-572244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-academy","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116027822209119833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}