MLS Footnotes: LA-San Jose ‘California Clásico’ headlines rivalry week

Editor’s Note: MLS Footnotes takes you inside the major talking points around the league and across American soccer

The Luchi Gonzalez era in San Jose is off to an encouraging start.

Almost a third of the way through Gonzalez’s first season at the helm of the Earthquakes, the former FC Dallas coach and U.S. World Cup team assistant has 5-3-3 San Jose — which finished dead last in the Western Conference in…