{"id":649085,"date":"2026-03-11T23:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/649085\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:45:19","slug":"la-galaxy-sign-forward-julian-placias-to-short-term-agreement-from-ventura-county-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/649085\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Galaxy\u00a0Sign\u00a0Forward Julian Placias to Short-Term Agreement from Ventura County FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOS ANGELES (March 11, 2026) \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The LA Galaxy today announced that the club has signed\u00a0forward\u00a0and former academy product\u00a0Julian\u00a0Placias\u00a0to a Short-Term Agreement from MLS NEXT Pro affiliate Ventura County FC\u00a0(VCFC)\u00a0ahead of\u00a0its\u00a02026\u00a0Concacaf Champions Cup\u00a0Round of 16\u00a0first leg\u00a0fixture\u00a0against Jamaican Premier League side Mount Pleasant FA (6:30 p.m. PT, FS2\/TUDN)\u00a0at Dignity Health Sports Park tonight, Wednesday, March 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Placias, 19,\u00a0joined the Galaxy Academy in 2021 and competed with the program through the end of the 2023-24\u00a0season.\u00a0He was a key member of the 2023 U-17 MLS NEXT Cup Championship team,\u00a0scoring two goals in the final against Real Colorado in a 4-0 win to lift the trophy.\u00a0Throughout the cup,\u00a0Placias\u00a0tallied a tournament-high six goals\u00a0and was\u00a0named the\u00a0MLS NEXT Cup Top Scorer.\u00a0Two\u00a0months\u00a0later with Ventura County FC,\u00a0Placias\u00a0notched his first professional goal in a 4-0 victory over Houston Dynamo 2.\u00a0Over the next two seasons,\u00a0Placias\u00a0spent time with\u00a0both\u00a0USL Championship side North Carolina FC and\u00a0in Belgium with K.V.C. Westerlo. The Rancho Santa Margarita, California native\u00a0returned\u00a0to VCFC in 2026\u00a0and\u00a0has\u00a0had\u00a0an instant impact,\u00a0scoring\u00a0in\u00a0both of\u00a0the MLS\u00a0NEXT Pro side\u2019s\u00a0first two\u00a0matches\u00a0so far. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Per MLS rules, a club may sign a player, age 25 or younger, during the league season from its MLS NEXT Pro\u202faffiliate\u202fto a maximum of four\u202fShort-Term\u202fAgreements\u202f(up to four-day contracts) each season (maximum of 16 days). An individual player may be included on up to four MLS league season match rosters each\u00a0season;\u00a0however, that player may appear in no more than two MLS league season matches. An individual player may\u00a0also\u00a0appear in any number of non-league games during the terms of his four\u202fShort-Term\u202fAgreements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transaction:<\/strong>\u00a0LA Galaxy sign forward Julian\u00a0Placias\u00a0to a Short-Term\u202fAgreement from MLS NEXT Pro affiliate Ventura County FC on March 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Date of Birth:\u00a0April 6,\u00a02006\u00a0(19)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Birthplace:\u00a0Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (March 11, 2026) \u2013\u00a0The LA Galaxy today announced that the club has signed\u00a0forward\u00a0and former academy product\u00a0Julian\u00a0Placias\u00a0to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":649086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,275763,2961,224,5337,50,10426,1650],"class_list":{"0":"post-649085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-julian-placias","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-press-release","16":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116213208040732577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649085","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=649085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}