LOS ANGELES – I’ve been thinking it would help to have a good fortune teller on retainer.

Because we have so many teams in Southern California, most of them regularly cycling through coaches, it would be great to write about the latest New Hire with total confidence: “Oh, no. This is definitely not going to work out.”

Or: “Yes, indeed! They absolutely nailed this hire!”

But without a crystal ball, you can’t really know until you know. There are so many variables, so many moving parts, and how much value do you assign to culture shock, in terms of team or country or both? You’re only as good as you most educated guess.

That said, my hunch about Alex Straus – based on a sparkling track record in European and an impressive first impression – is that Angel City FC nailed this hire.

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