Tuesday's Column & Chivas USA Gameday
Chivas USA kicks off its CONCACAF Champions League campaign tonight in Panama against Tauro F.C.
Kickoff is at 5 p.m. live on Galavision or delayed at 7 p.m. on Fox Soccer Channel after the Champions League New England Revolution-Joe Public (Trinidad & Tobago) game at 5 p.m.
Here's what the winners of the preliminary stage are striving for.
Notable:
*The match is Chivas USA's first-ever official game outside the U.S.
Quotable:
"Hopefully we'll have a little bit more luck in this tournament because we've had no luck in this league" - Preki on his team's chances after this weekend's MLS game.
About 100 Percent Soccer
Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. 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 and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
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