Interliga: The Power & the Passion
Chivas triumphed at InterLiga Sunday at Home Depot Center.
I wandered around the stadium taking photos and soaking up an amazing atmosphere that you don't see at MLS games. Here's a sampling, beginning with some frenetic Morelia fans.
This was as close as Los Angeles residents and Chivas fans Claudia Gonzales, 27, and Aida Aguilar, 33, could get to the action. They didn't have tickets, so they sat outside the stadium.
"Didn't I tell you never to call me at work?"
Daddy goat and his kid
A lone security guard (left) contemplates the solitude of the empty tennis venue adjacent to the packed soccer stadium.
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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