The team, with four games upcoming in nine days, sees the 19-year-old defender as an important member of its first team
Several teams across Major League Soccer debated releasing their players for the upcoming FIFA U-20 World Cup later this month.While Marcus Ferkranus and newly signed Mauricio Cuevas were selected to the roster and have joined the team in Argentina, defender Jalen Neal was not released, which is understandable when looking at the Galaxy roster .
“It was kind of expected for me,” he said Friday. “In the beginning as the season went on, I was getting more playing time. I thought it would help me get into the U-20 World Cup, but in the end, it was the reason I didn’t go. Ferkranus and Cuevas were also members of the U-20 team that qualified for the World Cup. Ferkranus has spent this season with Galaxy II and Cuevas has yet to debut, but his previous club, Club Brugge, had already given the OK for him to be selected.
“There are positives and negatives , but now my focus is with the Galaxy,” Neal said. “One of the positives I’m taking out of this is knowing that the club trusts me that much, that they want to keep me for this stretch of games. It’s also an important stretch of games for us, coming off of a win, we can use this as momentum.
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