Wednesday Kicks: Chivas USA Reduce Ticket Prices & More
With a couple of exceptions - general admission prices rose all of $1 from $14 to $15 - Chivas USA has responded to the recession and its middling average crowd of about 15,000 last season - by reducing ticket prices for 2009.
End zone prices remain at $18, but side line tickets go from $32 to $26, midfield from $36 to $34 and preferred from $45 to $38.
The club has also introduced a new "family-oriented" corner section price of $22.
That's good because it appears the city of Carson early this morning instituted a Home Depot Center ticket tax of somewhere between 2 and 5 percent.
Meanwhile, Scots, Welsh, Dutch and, um, Lichtenstein fans can rejoice: GolTV will now carry those nations' World Cup qualifying games. The cable channel already shows games involving Italy, Germany and Spain.
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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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