Columnist Nick Green has written 100 Percent Soccer
since 2005. A
native of England, he began writing about soccer in
the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat
in the stands for one in
the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home
Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas
USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer.
Married to a long-suffering soccer widow, he has a cat
named Pele.Chivas USA, Galaxy Camp Updates
Such as they are anyway.
No response from the Galaxy to an e-mail today asking for information about defender Ante Jazic's status and other camp info. They were probably too busy putting up this pithy video on their blog.
Over at Chivas USA, Jamaican defender Shavar Thomas finally got his work visa approved Wednesday. He's in transit and should be at training Friday. Whether he'll play Friday in Chivas USA's pair of scrimmages against UC Riverside (10 a.m.) or UC Irvine (11:30 a.m.) at Home Depot Center is unknown.
Striker Maykel Galindo, back training with the squad after off-season sports hernia surgery as reported here earlier this week, is expected to play though.
Chivas USA had an extensive list of walking wounded recently; of those players only Panchito Mendoza continues his rehab alone.
Finally, third round draft pick El Hadj-Cisse, a midfielder out of North Carolina, has been cut and left camp, by the way.