[MLS SUPERDRAFT COUNTDOWN] By the time he got to Florida for his first adidas MLS Player Combine, new Chivas USA coach JoseLuis Sanchez stated it was his intention to pick a Mexican-American with the No. 2 pick in Thursday’s MLS SuperDraft. And after two days of play at the combine, El Chelis now knows who […]
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Intrigue surrounds top picks
[MLS SUPERDRAFT COUNTDOWN] There is a lot of intrigue surrounding the top picks in this year’s MLS SuperDraft. Who will Toronto FC pick with the No. 1 pick?Andrew Farrell or Walker Zimmerman? Which Mexican-American will go to Chivas USA at No. 2? Mikey Lopez or Carlos Alvarez? Which Jamaican will go first? Jason Johnson, Deshorn […]
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Te Kloese gives Chivas USA key connection
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] The hiring of Dennis te Kloese as sporting president for both Chivas USA and Chivas de Guadalajara isthe best news to come out of the MLS club since Jorge Vergara took control with the stated intention to return it to its roots as a Mexican-American club.Perhaps no one has more knowledge of the […]
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Sacrifice pays off for Rio Grande Valley's Lopez
[THIRTEEN FOR ’13] Some soccer hotbeds go unnoticed. They might lack a pro club, a major college program or a big-time youth club. One such area is the RioGrande Valley area in South Texas. It took a move from Mission, located on the Mexican border across from Reynosa, to Austin, where he attended boarding school, […]
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Chivas USA goes back to the past
By Ridge Mahoney Every year or so, it seems, comes time to write about the new direction taken by Chivas USA. An MLS team wearing the colors of a belovedMexican enterprise didn’t thrill the souls of most Guadalajara supporters who live in Southern California, so since its expansion season of 2005 it has tried to […]
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A history of massive failure
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] Chivas USA’s hiring of veteran Mexican coach Jose Luis Sanchez Sola, also known as “ElChelis,” makes sense in terms of the MLS club’s goal to rediscover its Mexican flavor. But by every other measure, it’s a very risky move. The history of coaches imported from abroad without MLSexperience is littered with colosal failures. […]
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Agudelo and Najar, homegrown transfer targets
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] Major League Soccer clubs are spending about $20 million annually on player development but have yet to see a monetary payoff on theirinvestment. The first two homegrown players who could garner a sizable transfer fee are Chivas USA’s Juan Agudelo and D.C. United’s Andy Najar. Agudelo recently finished a training stint at Celtic, […]
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Chivas USA coaching target speaks out
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] Veteran Mexican coach Jose Luis Sanchez Sola — known as “Chelis” — is reportedly in line of take overfor Robin Fraser as the Chivas USA head coach, and he certainly doesn’t lack for opinions, saying what’s wrong with Chivas USA and what he will do. Jorge Vergara recently regained full ownership of Chivas […]
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Vergara: Preki turned down Chicharito
[MLS SPOTLIGHT: Chivas USA] Eight years after its launch, Chivas USA’s owners are looking to return the club to its Chivas de Guadalajara roots. For the firsttime since taking full control of the club, owner Jorge Vergara — along with his wife, Angelica Fuentes – held apress conference to go over what’s gone wrong and […]
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Chivas USA hires new front-office heads
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] The inevitable housecleaning at Chivas USA following the ownership restructuring of the MLS club has begun as Jorge Vergara and Angelica Fuentes, now full owners, have named 59-year-old Jose David as president of theteam and 60-year-old Jose Luis Real, a former Chivas Guadalajara coach, to supervise its on-the-field soccer operations. Neither has any […]