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USA Major League Soccer - Western Conference


Club Deportivo Chivas USA

Team's name:
Club Deportivo Chivas USA
Year founded: 2004 Chivas USA
Conference: Western
Location: Carson, California
Nickname:
Chivas, Goats, Goats USA,
Bebe Chivas,
Rojiblancos,
Rebaño Angelino
Mascot: none
Team Colours:
Red, White, Blue and Gold
Joined the League: 2005
Team's President:
Jorge Vergara
Soccer Coach: Preki Radosavljević
Soccer Stadium:
The Home Depot Center
Current Capacity: 27,000

Team Championships:
MLS Cup: none
US Open Cup: none
Supporter's Shield:
Runners Up 2007
International Champs: none

The CD Chivas USA is a United States soccer team based in Carson, California, which competes in the Major League Soccer. It was founded in 2004 due to an expansion of the league.

It was given the name of Chivas USA and shares the same colors (red, white, blue, and gold) with its parent Club Deportivo Guadalajara, one of the most followed teams in Mexico.

The team was created with the intention of attract Latin-American presence, and that was the main reason why California was chosen as the home of the new team, which plays in the new Home Depot Center stadium, sharing it with Los Angeles Galaxy.

The first season turned out to be disappointing; Chivas USA could not raise the bad play during the entire tournament and finished in last place, due to the bad quality of the players and being practically a new team.

For the following tournament (2006) the team was reinforced with the arrival of Ramón Ramírez and Francisco Palencia originating from Las Chivas de Guadalajara, besides Claudio Suarez, veteran of great quality and former player of the Guadalajara and this helped to improve the level of the team. Ramírez, Palencia and Bradley exited in 2007 but despite this, the team continued improving their game.

During the season 2007, Chivas finished at the top of the Western Conference and reached the MLS Cup playoffs. However, they lost in the Conference Semifinals to the Kansas City Wizards.

In the season 2008, the Chivas USA finished second in the West, reaching the playoffs for the third year in a row.

CD Chivas USA 2010 Squad

No. Pos. Player No. Pos. Player
1 GK Dan Kennedy 16 MF Sacha Kljestan
2 DF Claudio Suárez 17 FW Justin Braun
3 DF Jim Curtin 18 MF Sasha Victorine
5 MF Paulo Nagamura 19 MF Jorge Flores
6 DF Ante Jazić 21 GK Lance Parker
7 MF Kevin Harmse 22 GK Zach Thornton
8 MF Mariano Trujillo 23 MF Bojan Stepanović
9 FW Ante Razov 24 MF Gerson Mayen
10 FW Jesús Padilla 27 MF Michael Lahoud
11 FW Maykel Galindo 28 MF Cesar Zamora
12 DF Carey Talley 29 FW Maicon Santos
13 DF Jonathan Bornstein 45 DF Yamith Cuesta
14 GK Jon Conway 55 MF Marcelo Saragosa
15 MF Jesse Marsch (captain) 77 FW Chukwudi Chijindu

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