AS MAJOR LEAGUE Soccer’s glamour club, LA Galaxy is a desirable post-prime landing spot for some of the biggest names in the world game. David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Zlatan Ibrahimović and Ashley Cole have all completed high-profile stints at the club.
But while big names bring fans through the gate and line club coffers, they sometimes bring something else: big egos. And the person who often has to manage them? It’s not the head coach or the CEO, it’s the unassuming bloke with the stopwatch and clipboard asking a marquee name to get down on the floor and give him 20 burpees. At Galaxy, that would be Adam Waterson.
“You’d think training professional athletes, they would be the best
