Los Angeles – Hugo Loris spent 11 years in playing football in London before joining the Los Angeles Football Club in late December.
During his famous run with Tottenham Hotspur, the World Cup winning goalkeeper never postponed a press conference due to rain.
But on 5 February, when LAFC was determined to introduce Lloris and some of his new companions, the southern California was drenched with a record-setting winter storm.
The captain of the retired French national team laughed a little when LAFC explained why the first media availability of his American adventure till Valentine’s Day was pushed.
“It rains more in England but it is not as strong as it was [during the storm]”Loris said on Wednesday.” It is different. ,
For one of the world’s most successful goalkeepers, separate -different should be expected as he transitions for a new chapter of his life and a career in America with Major League football.
Culture. Environment Continent. Team partner. Supporter. Expectations. All different.
Fielding questions in Intercontinental Los Angeles Downtown – with midfielder Eduard Atuste, further Tomas Angel and Defender Omar Campos – Loris, 37, said that he arrived in this late phase of his game’s career due to the desire of new experiences for his wife and three children.
It has been the size of a small small sample, but in recent weeks as the captain of French in 2018, the two -time FIFA World Cup finalist, believing he found what he was watching.
LAFC’s presissence began on 21 January, and recently shows a pair of one week tour and exhibition matches for Kachela’s training with the club what Loris means.
In Europe, the training camp looked like a bubble. Stuck in a hotel, a unique focus is. But with LAFC, in addition to getting down to business, of course, there was a freedom that he did not know, whether it was a golf excursion with the teammates or set a dinner plan.
He said that the afternoon golf was valuable as a month to share a locker room. To join a team in which he is not an established leader – in the last six years he belonged to Carlos Vela, who remains an unclaimed free agent as a season’s approach – Loris said that there is nothing that he needs, and if this happens it needs to be biological.
“The way I am not wearing an armband,” Loris explained. “This was never an inspiration in my career.”
LAFC co-chairman and general manager John Thornington said that during the short magic of LAFC, he already saw the leadership moments, who defined the goalkeeper’s time with the French national team and the Premier League.
“It is rare that an MLS team, and in general, is capable of signing the World Cup winning captain,” Thornington said. “And it did not take long for me and for us to see why Hugo had got the success that he got.”
After the fielding offers with the teams in Europe, Asia, Middle East and MLS, Loris described the decision to join LAFC, despite the terms of the contract, as an easy as an easy, who paid well to a player of his height below the market value, agreed to a year with club options for 2025 and 2026.
After losing his early place with Tottenham, Loris said he wanted to be honest with himself after not knowing anything other than the highest level of professional football. At some point, he harmonized, leaving the level of competition, it was best to make his quality the best as he could, and play.
“The way I enjoy football, it is to be on the field and part of the team,” he said, “so I was looking for the right project.”
Other footballs such as Vela, Georgio Chellini and Gareth Bell were the same for the great people who decided to everyone for their own reasons that LAFC was the right step.
“When Carlos Vela signed with the club at the beginning of the history of the club, LAFC became famous worldwide,” Loris said. “When you add georgio and gareth, and, because I am French, Dennis [Bouanga]It likes, ‘Oh, this club is really interesting.’ And at the same time they won very fast. So I started following his season. ,
When it became clear that the LAFC could not re -signed the Maxim Crepo, the Canadian goalkeeper, who became a club legend during the 2022 MLS Cup final, contacted Loris, who told that he was ready to depart Tottenham.
“I think if I did not get this opportunity, perhaps I would regret it in life later,” Loris said, “10 days away from his expected MLS debut in the season opener against Seattle sounders at BMO Stadium.”
From the left, LAFC General Manager John Thornington sits with four new additions of the team – midfielder Eduard Atusta, goalkeeper Hugo Loris, Forward Tomas ángel and Defender Omar Campos – Wednesday during an introductory press conferences at Intercontinental Los Angeleson. (LAFC’s photo courtesy)