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Friday provided the first opportunity for Lloris to talk about LAFC’s recent signing of his good friend Olivier Giroud from Italian club AC Milan. “Obviously it will be a great addition into the team,” Lloris said of France’s all-time leading scorer, with whom he lifted the 2018 World Cup trophy. “He is going to bring so much, on and off the field. First of all, as a person, he is a great man with a great mentality, a family man as well. And he is going to bring his experience. And he’s the kind of man who is open to share, so that will be really good for a young team.
“He’s got his own profile as a player,” Lloris continued. “You don’t see many players with the same profile today because of the evolution of football. He is so efficient. He is priceless for a team. … He’s a really good friend, our families are really close, so yes, I’m happy to share this moment of my career with him.”
As for what Giroud can expect as he shifts from playing at Europe’s top levels to North America’s, Lloris said: “The difficulty in MLS is to manage the offensive transition because it’s a little bit more open than you see in Europe. But to be honest with you, it’s even better than what I expected, you know. There is a level of competition, there is a demand of competition, week in, week out, and at the end of the day, winning a football game, it’s hard. It doesn’t matter in which league you play.”
If Jesús Murillo plays on Saturday, it will mark the 100th regular-season appearance of the LAFC defender’s MLS career. Murillo, 30, played many of those 99 games alongside his friend Segura, a fellow Colombian and fellow defender who has appeared in 94 regular-season matches.
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