Jeff discusses Angel City's signing of Matty Di Maria (Part 2)

Giselle Thompson up into a right midfield role which has given her a freedom. So I think they have the attacking piece and then we talked about their back line. I think it was decision day. I'm losing track of days. Right. But that back four that they have has been really solid. Gordon Sam's king and Shores on the outside. So I think that Angel City has a really good front to back full package. I think they will absolutely give Kansas City trouble, maybe make them struggle. But yeah, the home piece, the set pieces, home field advantage. I think this is going to be a game of tight margins. Yeah, Ali sent Nori. Definitely an X factor. Could be a surprise here. Obviously now against former team at Kansas City Current. But we're going to keep our focus here on Angel City because. Wait, hold up. Angel City making news this week they announced the signing of 17 year old forward Matty Di Maria through 2030. Di Maria is coming off a record breaking U17 Women's World cup scoring 12 goals in Morocco. The most by the most ever by an American at a single FIFA win. Women's World cup at any age level. ACFC says she will be available for selection in their quarterfinal game against Kansas City. Jeff, I see you smiling. Are you cool with it? Well, let's be very specific about what we're trying to be cool with. I am absolutely not cool with the way that it was announced. In terms of league transparency, I think it's a great signing for Angel City. Great sighting signing for the league. Happy for her. Nothing to do with the player, not even so much the club. Although obviously they decided to announce it this way. This for me, for anybody, if they're wondering, wow, this guy's really fired up about an innocuous thing. No, this is something for over a decade since the league's inception, the transparency of basic information that just doesn't exist. And what I'm saying here is the roster freeze was a month ago, over a month ago now that this signing happened and there's no requirement for a team to announce this. So in the past that's been days later, a week later. Oh, by the way, we made a signing transfer day. Deadline day is gone. This is a month later, it's the day before a playoff game. And it just speaks to an overall issue that has not been solved at a league level. Whether we're talking about a signing that should have been announced, whether we're talking about injuries that aren't properly reported. And we find out months later that somebody had a surgery but they weren't listed on the injury report as that. So for me, I'm not cool with that at all. I've expressed that privately. I'll say it publicly, that it's a problem that the league has and needs to solve. Same separating that exciting side.