Hollywood Blvd. News – LA Galaxy Edition
- Updated: June 21, 2015
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Happy Father’s Day to all of you reading this this morning! Our Hollywood Blvd. this morning follows the theme of celebrating Dads in our lives.
Featured on MLS.com, the newest LA Galaxy prospect Ariel Lassiter talks about the hope he possesses to be just like his dad.
Ariel is the son of Roy Lassiter, a former US Men’s National Team player and MLS Star. And Ariel is ready to live up to all that his father has done, as well as to “the standard established over a decade in Costa Rica, Italy and with four Major League Soccer teams.”
Many believe that Ariel has the potential to equal the greatness of his father, some even see Roy being referred to as Ariel’s father, instead of the other way around.
He said the following to MLS.com”
“Everything that I am, the player that I am, is because of him, all the work that we’ve done together since I was little,” said Ariel, a 20-year-old winger/forward who leads the Galaxy’s USL-based reserve team with six goals in 10 games, plus another tally in the US Open Cup. “As soon as I could walk, he tells me, I had a ball in my hand. I thank God for allowing me to have a person like that in my life.
“Roy was all about scoring goals. He was all business,” said Galaxy II head coach Curt Onalfo, Lassiter’s teammate those two seasons with D.C. “He knew what his job was, and he spent a ton of time in front of the goal, and he was a lethal goalscorer.
“If you compare the two, Ari, in my mind, has all the signs of the same ability to score goals like his father did. But I think Ari can be more of a complete player. Ari has the potential to have even more than what his father had, and his father was an excellent player.”
Roy says Onalfo is “spot on.”
“I wasn’t the greatest in the [defensive] third or the middle third of the field. My game started in the final third,” he said. “When that ball got to the final third, I was going to do everything in my power to be in the right spot to put the ball in the net and help my team win.
“But Ariel is an all-around player. He knows how to shoot, he knows how to pass, he knows how to dribble, he knows where to be to score goals, and this isn’t just now. Ariel’s been doing this for years. And I coached him all the way up to going to college, so I know. He’s a more technical player and more savvy than I was.”
“He’s clinical in front of the goal, just like his dad was,” Onalfo said. “He’s got all the tools to make it to a really high level. … All the signs are there. I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself, because he’s got a long way to go, but in my mind, he has an amazingly bright future.”
Sometimes your Dad is your biggest motivator, and let’s hope that Ariel and Roy keep getting closer through the beautiful game!
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