DECISIONS, DECISIONS SIGI SCHMID FEELS SHAKEUP NEEDED.Byline: Fred J. Robledo Staff Writer PASADENA - This was supposed to be the year Sigi Schmid Siegfried "Sigi" Schmid (born March 20 1953 in Tübingen, West Germany) is a soccer coach who currently heads the Columbus Crew. Schmid moved from Germany to Torrance, California in 1962. He received a B.S. in economics from UCLA in 1976, and an M. led the Galaxy to its first championship. Instead, the former UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX coach has some big decisions to make in the weeks following the team's semifinal loss to the Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). Wizards. Veterans Mauricio Cienfuegos, Robin Fraser, Greg Vanney and Cobi Jones have been with the Galaxy since its inaugural season in Major League Soccer. Schmid might be running out of patience with all four, however. ``I think at this point, the core of this team has had five years to get it done,'' said Schmid. ``That doesn't mean I'll shake everything up. But I would be remiss re·miss adj. 1. Lax in attending to duty; negligent. 2. Exhibiting carelessness or slackness. See Synonyms at negligent. if I don't look at all the possibilities. The Galaxy finished with the fifth-best record in the MLS See multilevel security. , but only a couple of games separated the team from the league's top record. L.A. was unbeaten with five wins and five ties after its first 10 games. But that's when the MLS and the Galaxy orchestrated a puzzling trade that brought Mexican scoring champion Luis Hernandez to the Galaxy. MLS, figuring the Galaxy had too much wealth, created a dispersal draft in which Clint Mathis was shipped to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Joe Franchino sent to New England. MLS officials also decided the Galaxy had to part with midfielder Roy Myers to make the acquisition fair to the rest of the league. The move led to disaster. The Galaxy closed out the season 9-10-3 after the Hernandez acquisition. Hernandez didn't provide much firepower, scoring only four goals with six assists for 14 points. Meanwhile, Mathis made a strong bid for MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. honors in New York, finishing second in the league in scoring with 16 goals and 14 assists for 46 points. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Galaxy defender Brian Kelly tries to get in the way of Kansas City's Preki Radosavljeic during a playoff game. Jim Barcus/Associated Press |
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