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September 23, 2001 | GRAHAME L. JONES, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Successful as he was in his three years as assistant coach and then as coach of the Galaxy, there were a few things that bothered Octavio Zambrano while he was in Los Angeles. One of them was management's insistence on trying to tailor the Major League Soccer team's roster to the demographics of the community. In New York, or at least across the river in New Jersey, Zambrano doesn't have that problem.
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October 14, 2000
Gee, another loss for the Galaxy in MLS playoff time. Make that another shutout loss. Another scoreless game, and another mediocre season, for Cobi Jones, the unanimous winner of the league's MOP award--Most Overrated Player. Unless, of course, you prefer the latest import flop, Luis (Show me all your money) Hernandez. Jones wants $5 million to stay with the league? Funny guy, this Cobi. Perhaps "Saturday Night Live" should be his next stop. And can anyone out there tell me why Sigi Schmid was brought in as coach in place of Octavio Zambrano, who has turned New York/New Jersey into a winner in his first season?
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March 31, 2000 | GRAHAME L. JONES
One game into Major League Soccer's new season and Octavio Zambrano already finds himself facing a barrage of increasingly difficult questions. The former Galaxy coach is now in charge of the once-hapless but presumably rejuvenated New York/New Jersey MetroStars, whose high-profile signings from Germany and Colombia were supposed to produce a new beginning. It didn't quite work out that way.
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April 27, 1999 | DAVID WHARTON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Octavio Zambrano planned to say little after his unexpected firing by the Galaxy last week. Then he heard what the team had to say about him. In announcing the change last Thursday, Galaxy President Tim Leiweke claimed Zambrano wasn't communicating with players or making halftime adjustments. "I was stunned by those comments," Zambrano said Monday. "There was no need to say those things." Zambrano had a 41-22 record since 1997 and led the Galaxy to the Major League Soccer semifinals last season.
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April 23, 1999 | DAVID WHARTON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Galaxy signed new Coach Sigi Schmid to a three-year contract amid lingering questions about the firing of his predecessor, Octavio Zambrano, five games into the season. Schmid accepted the Galaxy's offer for an undisclosed amount after having spurned other Major League Soccer clubs in recent years. As coach of the UCLA men's team for almost two decades, Schmid led the Bruins to three NCAA championships and sent 19 players to the U.S.
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April 22, 1999 | GRAHAME L. JONES, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Sigi Schmid, UCLA's soccer coach for the past 19 years, today will be named coach of the Galaxy, replacing Octavio Zambrano, who was fired Wednesday by the Major League Soccer team. The move comes in the wake of the Galaxy's poor start to the season. The team, which went 24-8 under Zambrano last season, setting league offensive and defensive records in the process, failed to win any of its first five games in regulation and scored only three goals while going 2-3. Zambrano, 41, had been given a vote of confidence as recently as Saturday evening by Sergio del Prado, the Galaxy general manager.