The LA Galaxy has concluded a silly but interesting promotion — the LA Galaxy Ridiculous Soccer Challenge.

It involved four “games” pitting two Galaxy players against dozens of children on a training field at the club’s Carson home, the StubHub Center.

The last matchup to be posted: Steven Gerrard and Robbie Keane against 30 eight-year-old kids.

The video makes for some amusing viewing.

And I found it interesting that the Galaxy players went easy on the kids — but not so easy as to allow them to win.

Watching the 30 kids bunch up in the middle of the field … brought back memories of coaching AYSO age-group teams. “Kids, spread out!”

One boy seems to have decided he would be a goalkeeper, but the other 29 seemed to be rovers. If they had put a little distance between themselves … but, alas.

It made it easy for Keane and Gerrard to avoid having to dribble through a mob — they played long balls up the sides of the field, and went for tap-ins.

Both players were careful about hitting hard shots. They didn’t. They also ran by the kids with the greatest of ease. Little kids just aren’t very fast, are they. I’d almost forgotten.

Perhaps the most aggressive bit was when Keane dribbled through two or three kids, leaving the last on the ground, as he scored.

The big guys won the game, 3-2.

Even if the event was sponsor-driver — the official name has “Chevrolet” in it — it got dozens of kids, in full Galaxy livery, on the same field with two well-known European players — who probably never were asked to do anything of that sort, while playing on the other side of the Atlantic.

Earlier this year, Giovani dos Santos and Gyasi Zardes, as well as Ashley Cole and Baggio Husidic, also beat teams of 30 eight-year-olds. (And the idea of the often haughty Ashley Cole having to play against children would make some of his English critics laugh aloud.)

Jelle Van Damme and A.J. DeLaGarza played the match first posted, except they went up against 25 10-year-olds. Beat them 2-1.

In that match, DeLaGarza sticks out his left hand to block a shot — which you shouldn’t try in a match kids!