Friday Football: Waiting for the MLS Conference semifinals weekend
With Colorado's victory over Columbus last night the MLS semifinals are set.
And the Galaxy are revved up and ready for New York on Sunday.
I'm jumping on a conference call with Galaxy Coach Bruce Arena (and others) at 9 a.m. so I'll keep this brief.
Incidentally, Galaxy Coach Bruce Arena said on the conference call that the club will decide Saturday whether the injured likes of Robbie Keane, etc., can play in the game.
But I wanted to note that Chivas USA fans won't be let entirely out in the cold when it comes to the MLS playoffs: Alejandro Moreno will appear as an analyst for ESPN2 with host Max Bretos and analyst Alexi Lalas in their Bristol studio for two doubleheader playoffs telecasts that begin at noon Sunday with the New York Red Bulls-Galaxy first leg followed by the 2 p.m. Philadelphia Union-Houston Dynamo match up as well as the return fixtures of both contests that are scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Thursday for the Dynamo-Union match and 8 p.m. for the Galaxy-Red Bulls contest from Home Depot Center.
The television schedule for the other games:
*7 p.m. Saturday Fox Soccer Real Salt Lake-Seattle Sounders
*4 p.m. Sunday Fox Soccer Colorado Rapids-Sporting Kansas City
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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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