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Club Deportivo Chivas USA

Year founded	2004
League	Major League Soccer
Nickname	Chivas, Chivas USA, Goats, Goats USA, The Red-And-White, El Rebaño Sagrado
Stadium	The Home Depot Center Carson, CA
Coach	Preki
Owner	Jorge Vergara Madrigal
Home colors 　 Away colors
First Game Chivas USA 0–2 D.C. United (The Home Depot Center; April 2, 2005)
Largest Win Chivas USA 5–1 Real Salt Lake (The Home Depot Center; July 9, 2005) Chivas USA 4–0 Real Salt Lake (The Home Depot Center; April 21, 2007)
Worst Defeat Houston Dynamo 4–0 Chivas USA (Robertson Stadium; June 21, 2007)
All-time Top Scorer Ante Razov (25)
Supporter Groups Legión 1908 Saint Patrick's Battalion Los Hooligans del Tablon OC Borrachos
MLS Cup
None
US Open Cup
None
Supporters' Shield
Runners-up: 2007

Club Deportivo Chivas USA (short form: Chivas USA) is a professional football (soccer) club based in Carson, California that participates in Major League Soccer. The club, founded in 2004, plays its home games at The Home Depot Center, sharing it with the Los Angeles Galaxy. The team shares the same colors of red, white, blue, and gold as its parent Club Deportivo Guadalajara, the most popular team in Mexico.

Contents 1 History 1.1 100-Hour Game 1.2 Championship 1.3 SuperLiga 1.4 Sponsor 1.5 Song 2 Television and radio 3 Honors 3.1 Individual Honors 4 Current roster 4.1 Changes for the 2008 MLS Season 5 Notable players 6 Head coaches 7 Team records 8 Home stadiums 9 Year-by-year 10 Average attendance 11 External links

The first coach of Chivas USA was Thomas Rongen. However, after Chivas' 1–8–1 start (their sole win coming against fellow expansion club Real Salt Lake), Rongen was fired and replaced with Hans Westerhof. Following the conclusion of the 2005 campaign, former MetroStars and Chicago Fire head coach Bob Bradley was announced as the replacement for Westerhof. Under coach Bradley, the 2006 season saw a major turnaround for Chivas, which finished in third place in the MLS Western Conference after finishing last with the worst record in league history the season prior. Coach Bradley left after one season to manage both the United States men's national soccer team and the United States U-23 men's national soccer team, and was replaced by Preki.

The team's main supporter group is primarily Latino, or more specifically Mexican. Vergara has promised that, although the team may not be composed entirely of Latin players, the team's main language will be Spanish. This is evidenced in the team's marketing slogan for its inaugural campaign in 2005, "Adiós soccer. ¡El fútbol está aquí!", which translates to "Goodbye soccer, football is here!" Since 2006, Chivas USA's marketing slogan has been "Chivas USA: Está en Tu Sangre", or in its English version, "Chivas USA: It's in Your Blood".

In August 2006, in line with the centennial anniversary of its parent club, Chivas and Chivas USA jointly organized a football match that lasted 100 hours, in the city of Bell Gardens, CA. The match was composed of two teams, "Chivas" and "The Rest of the World"--both teams were composed of current players of both clubs, former Chivas de Guadalajara players, Mexican and Mexican-American politicians, organizations, Mexican celebrities, etc. The Game began August 9th and ended on August 13th with "Chivas" beating "The Rest of the World" 437-429. [1]

Chivas USA finished the 2007 MLS season atop of the Western Conference earning the title of MLS Western Conference Champions. However, they lost in the Conference Semifinals of the MLS Cup 2007 playoffs to the Kansas City Wizards, who were placed in the Western #4 seed under new MLS Cup playoff seeding rules despite being in the Eastern Conference.

Chivas USA qualified to the SuperLiga 2008 by finishing as the 2nd best team during the 2007 MLS season.

Chivas USA's sponsor is Comex, a Mexican paint company which has retailers across the United States, mostly in the California area. Its logo also appears on the front of Chivas jerseys and training jerseys. Comex became the club's jersey sponsor during the 2007 season.

The team anthem is called "¡Chivas Explosivas!" and is performed by Chicano rap group and Los Angeles natives Akwid. ^[1]

All matches are broadcast in Spanish on KTNQ Univision Radio. Hipólito Gamboa does play-by-play, while former Chivas keeper Martín Zúñiga does color, the two men also host the team's weekly radio program "Sangre Chiva" (literally "Chiva Blood") on the same station. There is no English language radio outlet.

18 matches will appear locally on FSN West television. Christian Miles is the play-by-play announcer, with Bernardo Osuna as analyst and sideline reporter Christine Nubla.

• MLS Cup
  • None
• US Open Cup
  • None
• MLS Supporters' Shield
  • Runners-up (1): 2007
• MLS Western Conference
  • Regular Season Champions (1) 2007
• Honda SuperClasico
  • Derby Winners (1) 2007

• MLS Best XI - Brad Guzan, Jonathan Bornstein 2007
• MLS Coach of the Year Award - Preki 2007
• MLS Goalkeeper of the Year Award - Brad Guzan 2007
• MLS Coach of the Year Award - Bob Bradley 2006
• MLS Rookie of the Year Award - Jonathan Bornstein 2006

As of December 12, 2007^[2] The players in bold have senior international caps

No. Position Player 2 DF Claudio Suárez (captain) 4 DF Shavar Thomas 6 MF Francisco Mendoza 9 FW Ante Razov 11 FW Maykel Galindo 12 FW John Cunliffe 13 DF Jonathan Bornstein 15 MF Jesse Marsch — FW Atiba Harris

No. Position Player 16 MF Sacha Kljestan 18 GK Brad Guzan 19 FW Jorge Flores 23 DF Alex Zotinca 24 DF Bobby Burling 25 DF Lawson Vaughn 26 MF Paulo Nagamura 32 FW Anthony Hamilton

In

• Atiba Harris Acquired in trade from Real Salt Lake

Out

• Jason Hernandez Drafted to San Jose Earthquakes in the Expansion Draft

• Tony Barrera To San Jose Earthquakes

• David Arvizu Waived

• Carlos Llamosa Waived

• Ramón Núñez Waived

• Erasmo Solorzano Waived

• Laurent Merlin Waived

• Justin Myers Waived

• Orlando Perez Waived

• Desmond Brooks Waived

• Rodrigo López Waived

• Eder Robles Waived

• Martín Zúñiga (2005)
• Juan Pablo García (2005-2006)
• Juan Francisco Palencia (2005-2006)
• Ramón Ramírez (2005-2006)
• Ante Razov (2006-)
• Claudio Suárez (2006-)
• Maykel Galindo (2007-)
• Brad Guzan (2005-)
• Ramón Núñez (2007)
• Paulo Nagamura (2007-)
• Francisco Mendoza (2005-)
• Jonathan Bornstein (2006-)

• Thomas Rongen (2005)
• Javier Ledesma (2005; interim)
• Hans Westerhof (2005)
• Bob Bradley (2006)
• Preki (2007–)

• Goals: Ante Razov, 25
• Assists: Sacha Kljestan, 20
• Games Played: Francisco Mendoza, 83
• Minutes Played: Francisco Mendoza, 6989
• Shots: Ante Razov, 183
• Shots on Goal: Ante Razov, 82
• Game-Winning Goals: Ante Razov, 9
• Penalty Kick Goals: Claudio Suarez, 4
• Multi-Goal Games: Ante Razov, 5
• Saves: Brad Guzan, 240
• Shutouts: Brad Guzan, 20

MLS regular season only, through 2007 season

• All-Time regular season record: 29-38-27 (Through Oct. 21, 2007)

• The Home Depot Center (2005—)

Year	Reg. Season	Playoffs	Open Cup	CONCACAF Champions' Cup	SuperLiga
2005	6th, West	Did not qualify	Round of 32	Not qualified	Started in 2007
2006	3rd, West	Quarterfinals	Round of 16	Did not qualify
2007	1st, West	Quarterfinals	Round of 16	Did not qualify	Did not participate
2008	TBD	TBD	TBD	Did not qualify	Qualified

regular season/playoffs

• 2005: 17,080/missed playoffs
• 2006: 19,840/15,110
• 2007: 14,305/19,711

• www.cdchivasusa.com (English)
• www.cdchivasusa.com (Spanish)
• Official Chivas USA board, courtesy of BigSoccer

Chivas USA v • d • e
Club • History • Players Major League Soccer Stadiums — The Home Depot Center Ownership — Jorge Vergara Club Head Coaches Rongen • Ledesma • Westerhof • Bradley • Preki Supporter Groups Legión 1908 • Saint Patrick's Battalion • OC Borrachos Championships (0) Seasons 2005 • 2006 • 2007

Major League Soccer v • d • e

Eastern Conference Western Conference Chicago Fire | Columbus Crew | D.C. United | Kansas City Wizards | New England Revolution | New York Red Bulls | Toronto FC Chivas USA | Colorado Rapids | FC Dallas | Houston Dynamo | Los Angeles Galaxy | Real Salt Lake | San Jose Earthquakes Former teams Expansion Miami Fusion | Tampa Bay Mutiny Seattle (2009) Miscellaneous MLS Cup | All-Star Game | SuperLiga | Pan-Pacific Championship | USSF | CSA | Central Division | U.S. Open Cup | Playoffs | Supporters' Shield | Two-team Cups | Reserve Division | Drafts | Stadiums | Current Players | Foreign Players | Capped Players | Designated Players | Records/Statistics/Trivia Seasons 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008

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