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Avi Creditor

Bale, LAFC Can Benefit From Each Other to Reach Their 2022 Goals

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Are all the golfing jokes out of the system yet? Have all connected the dots that the Los Angeles Country Club is hosting the 2023 U.S. Open and that Gareth Bale’s new deal with LAFC, before a reported 18-month option can be triggered, coincidentally ends right around tee time? O.K. Perhaps there’s room for one more.

Bale’s move to L.A. is anything but par for the course for LAFC, and it’s an intriguing wrinkle for a club currently leading the MLS Supporters’ Shield race and a player desperately trying to stay in form for his nation’s first World Cup in 64 years.

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