Shocked. That was A.J. DeLaGarza’s reaction when learning that his club of the past eight years, the LA Galaxy, had traded him to the Houston Dynamo.
The deal went down on MLS Draft Day and it entailed the Dynamo sending $125,000 in General Allocation Money and $50,000 in Targeted Allocation Money. The trade stunned DeLaGarza, who a couple weeks before the draft had been told he wouldn’t be traded.
But DeLaGarza began to feel better about his move a couple days after the trade dust settled.
“My wife and I started getting excited about starting a new chapter in a great city with another historic club in MLS,” DeLaGarza said after the club’s first training session Wednesday.