Chivas Chokes & the Spain Game
Barring two super results Saturday Chivas USA is done with SuperLiga.
Highlights:
Prediction: SuperLiga will soon go the way of this tournament.
U.S.-Spain Confederations Cup preview.
The game starts at 11:25 a.m. today on ESPN.
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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.
"It's sad, so sad, it's a sad sad situation....." Who sang that Nick?
Superliga had it's best outing that first year because of my gaLAxy's good run (the only good thing they did btw). It's been downhill since then.
Nick replies: Elton John in "Sorry seems to be the Hardest Word." (And thanks for getting that song stuck in my head now).
This is a good thing for Chivas USA. SuperLiga is a joke. The only reason MLS/SUM originated it was to take advantage of Beckham's presence in MLS, and try to market him (and, by extention, the league) to Mexican and Mexican-American fans. The Mexican clubs hate it, big money purses notwithstanding.
I expect next year's SuperLiga to have San Jose, New York, Dallas, Columbus on the MLS side and Indios, Queretaro, Jaguares and Puebla on the Mexican side.