The LA Galaxy will unveil a statue at Dignity Health Sports Park Sunday honoring former player Cobi Jones.
The statue will be the team’s third in Legends Plaza, alongside David Beckham and Landon Donovan. The 9-foot bronze sculpture was created by artists Oscar Leon and Omri Amrany of the Rotblatt Amrany Studio in Chicago.
Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber will be on hand at the unveiling, which will take place at 1 p.m., before the Galaxy host Real Salt Lake at 4 p.m.
The 55-year old Jones was born in Detroit but grew up in the Southland, playing for Westlake High School and UCLA. He played for the Galaxy from 1996-2007, scoring 70 goals.
He served as an assistant coach with the Galaxy for two seasons after retiring.
Jones was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2011, his first year of eligibility.
To accompany the statue unveiling, the Galaxy have launched new, limited-edition merchandise in collaboration with Jones himself. The collection is on sale at the LA Galaxy Team Store.
Earlier this year, the organizing committee for the 2026 World Cup named Jones as the official community ambassador for the mega event.
“L.A. is home and it is with excitement and pride that I will serve as an official Los Angeles World Cup 2026 community ambassador,” he said at the time. “I’ve spent my life here — growing up in the Conejo Valley playing AYSO and club soccer, to bringing home a NCAA championship with UCLA. Then helping create a MLS dynasty with the LA Galaxy hoisting trophies and winning titles. Yet, most important of all raising my family here.”
Jones played in three World Cups for the U.S. Men’s National Team — in 1994, 1998 and 2002. In the last three decades, he has helped elevate the sport’s profile in the United States through his work as a broadcaster, coach and co-founder of Angel City Football Club of the National Women’s Soccer League.