Galaxy GM Dennis te Kloese resigns after nearly 3 years

The Galaxy announced that General Manager Dennis te Kloese is leaving the nine to instrumentality a CEO presumption with Dutch nine Feyenoord.

“We would similar to convey Dennis for his contributions to the nine implicit the past 3 seasons,” Galaxy president Chris Klein said successful a statement. “We enactment his determination to spell backmost location to the Netherlands to articulation Feyenoord and privation him the champion successful his adjacent endeavor.”

Te Kloese joined the Galaxy successful December 2018. He antecedently worked arsenic the manager of nationalist teams for the Mexican Football Federation. The determination to Feyenoord volition instrumentality te Kloese backmost to his Netherlands roots, wherever helium was born.

“I americium genuinely grateful and consciousness precise arrogant to person served the LA Galaxy for the past 3 years,” te Kloese said. “I would similar to convey the fans, players, unit and everyone who ever made me, and my family, consciousness astatine location and portion of the Galaxy family.

“I volition instrumentality with maine immoderate large memories and I person experienced immoderate unforgettable moments implicit the past years. As I hole for my caller situation successful the Netherlands, I conscionable wanted to accidental convey you and privation everybody the champion of luck and large occurrence moving forward.”

The Galaxy didn’t accidental if it would prosecute to capable the position. One mode the nine could spell is for manager Greg Vanney to instrumentality connected GM duties. He held the adjunct GM rubric portion coaching Toronto FC.

The departure of te Kloese leaves Jovan Kirovski (technical director) and Gordon Kljestan (senior director, Soccer Operations) nether the Galaxy’s Soccer Operations department.