Midweek Update: Razov, Kamara & More
Just a couple of quick items of local interest to pass along:
*Chivas USA striker Ante Razov is out two weeks with a mild right calf strain. The club's all-time leading scorer hobbled out of Saturday's game against the Wizards in the first half.
*Chivas USA defender Eric Ebert, already on the season-ending injury list, underwent right knee surgery Tuesday afternoon in Santa Monica.
*Cal State Dominguez Hills' goalkeeper Alyssa Congdon has been named the Brine California Collegiate Athletic Association Women's Soccer Player of the Week. The former South Torrance High star has two shutouts in her last two games.
*Mexico will play Ecuador Nov. 12 in Phoenix in its fifth and final game of the year in the U.S.
*Lawndale's Kei Kamara is carving out a niche for himself in Houston and had a two goal outburst in a CONCACAF Champions League shootout Tuesday night between the Dynamo and Pumas. Check out the goalfest:
*Televised footie today includes-
11:30 a.m. ESPN2 Liverpool-PSV Eindhoven
2:00 p.m. ESPN Classic (delayed) Shakhtar Donetsk-Barcelona
5 p.m. Fox Soccer Channel D.C. United-Cruz Azul
About 100 Percent Soccer
Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005. 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.
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