LAFC’s cap table has shuffled quite a bit this year. The club welcomed three new limited partners, while two left the organization. Additionally, co-managing owner Larry Berg is on his way out as well after being elected as the next commissioner of MLS.
But at least two team executives are staying put. On Friday, LAFC will announce that it has signed co-presidents Larry Freedman and John Thorrington to contract extensions. The length and financial terms of the deals were not disclosed, but the club indicated that both were multiyear arrangements. While their day-to-day responsibilities aren’t expected to change, Freedman’s and Thorrington’s titles will be rebranded as the president of business operations for LAFC and BMO Stadium and the president of soccer operations, respectively.
“We’re lucky to have the best management team in MLS,” Bennett Rosenthal, LAFC’s lead managing owner, said. “It’s a big function of the leadership, both on the business side and on the soccer side … Why not lock in the two best guys at their various roles in the league?”
In doing so, Freedman and Thorrington continue their runs with LAFC, which started long before the team played its first MLS season in 2018. A veteran of baseball world, having overseen five to eight minor league clubs for Mandalay Baseball Properties, Freedman joined the fledgling organization in 2014. Thorrington—a former professional soccer player with Bayer Leverkusen, the Chicago Fire and the U.S. Men’s National Team—followed in 2015.
