The Offside 25 October @ 10:38 PM EST
This has been a fantastic weekend to hate somebody and wish him ill almost everywhere around the
world. As Daryl pointed out earlier, this weekend's fixture calendar was overflowing with big
derbies and heated rivalries including three different flavored clasicos, inter-city and
intercontinental matches.
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Gallery, images, photos and pictures of FC Barcelona's match v CD Guadalajara Pre-Season Friendly
match, August 2009. Includes Eidur Gudjohnsen, Jeffren Suarez, Daniel Alves, Jonathan Dos Santos,
Bojan Krkic, Julio Nava, Maxwell, Yaya Touré, Sergio Busquets, Seydou Keita, Gerard Pique and Marc
Muniesa images, photos and pictures.
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Gallery, images, photos and pictures of FC Barcelona's match v CD Guadalajara Pre-Season Friendly
match, August 2009. Includes Eidur Gudjohnsen, Jeffren Suarez, Daniel Alves, Jonathan Dos Santos,
Bojan Krkic, Julio Nava, Maxwell, Yaya Touré, Sergio Busquets, Seydou Keita, Gerard Pique and Marc
Muniesa images, photos and pictures.
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Gallery, images, photos and pictures of FC Barcelona's match v CD Guadalajara Pre-Season Friendly
match, August 2009. Includes Eidur Gudjohnsen, Jeffren Suarez, Daniel Alves, Jonathan Dos Santos,
Bojan Krkic, Julio Nava, Maxwell, Yaya Touré, Sergio Busquets, Seydou Keita, Gerard Pique and Marc
Muniesa images, photos and pictures.
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Gallery, images, photos and pictures of FC Barcelona's match v CD Guadalajara Pre-Season Friendly
match, August 2009. Includes Eidur Gudjohnsen, Jeffren Suarez, Daniel Alves, Jonathan Dos Santos,
Bojan Krkic, Julio Nava, Maxwell, Yaya Touré, Sergio Busquets, Seydou Keita, Gerard Pique and Marc
Muniesa images, photos and pictures.
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Gallery, images, photos and pictures of FC Barcelona's match v CD Guadalajara Pre-Season Friendly
match, August 2009. Includes Eidur Gudjohnsen, Jeffren Suarez, Daniel Alves, Jonathan Dos Santos,
Bojan Krkic, Julio Nava, Maxwell, Yaya Touré, Sergio Busquets, Seydou Keita, Gerard Pique and Marc
Muniesa images, photos and pictures.
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The Offside 16 June @ 09:43 AM EST
CSKA Sofia made themselves popular with Sepp Blatter today by announcing a policy of Bulgarian
players only. Not so much 6+5 as 11+0. CSKA finished second to Levski Sofia in the Bulgarian
league, missing out on the title by just one point. And so now they're making some changes. "From
now on our policy will be to [.
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The Offside 20 April @ 09:30 PM EST
Something to read while you watch two sweet strikes from the Superclásico... ...and one deadly
header from El Clásico (CD Guadalajara Offside) Energie Cottbus: bad at football, good at
apologies (SportsRubbish) Rate these goals in the name of science (Goal Rating) Correcting Steven
Cohen (EPL Talk) Ligue 1 players confuse rugby and football (101GG) The nation that ran out of
flair [.
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MLS Rumors 16 January @ 08:19 PM EST
Those who doubted that his loan would be anything more than a loan were wrong.
Official release from MLS...
Midfielder Francisco ‘Panchito' Mendoza, the Mexican player
with the most all-time Major League Soccer appearances, today officially joined eleven-time Mexican
champions Chivas de Guadalajara, ahead of Mexico's upcoming Clausura 2009 season.
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MLS Rumors 23 December @ 01:51 PM EST
"Yeah but MLS Rumors is always wrong."
Remember way, way back on Nov. 10, with we brought you this rumor that Francisco
"Panchito" Mendoza, CD Chivas USA's young Mexican midfielder would be headed south of the
border to the "Mothership" CD Guadalajara? Of course old school MLSR readers know there
had been rumors going back further than that, like this one from early January 2008.
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MLS Rumors 26 November @ 11:47 AM EST
Our good friends of MLS en Espanol sent us this email moments ago...
Hey guys,
I just posted something on my blog that I found in El Informador about Francisco
Mendoza leaving Chivas USA to play for Chivas de Guadalajara next season. Mendoza would join the
team the second week of December in Baja California for preseason. Click to continue reading...
Three North American Clubs will take part in the Copa Sudamericana, a UEFA Cup of sorts for South
America. Chivas de Guadalajara and San Luis of Mexico both qualify as the best two teams from
Clausura 2008 that did not qualify for this season's Champions League, and Motagua of Honduras
which qualified via the 2008 CONCACAF Champion's Cup.
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Samuel Eto'o scored two, Xavi, Hleb, and Caceres put in one each to give Barcelona the 5-2 victory
over CD Guadalajara in front of 40,717 at Soldier Field Sunday.
CD Guadlajara battled valiantly as Jesus scored for Chivas in the 59th minute...Jesus Padilla that
is...as well as an 88th minute header from Javier Hernandez, but by then it was much too little
much too late as Barca had stamped their authority.
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If your travels will take you anywhere near Soldier Field or Giants Stadium early next month, then
you have to try and score tickets to one of the two friendlies the Catalonian greats have
planned.
According to the detailed itinerary on FC Barcelona's website, the team is set to arrive via
chartered jet in Chicago around 2:00PM on Thursday 31 July.
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Major League Soccer, the league with no team that wants to make the playoffs. Out of five games,
all five were draws, which doesn't make things interesting for the weekly rankings.
The top two teams in the rankings did poorly in the SuperLiga this week; neither made it to the
knockout stages.
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And with that, the Houston Dynamo sit on top of 2008 SuperLiga's Group A standings and will be
followed in to the semi finals by second place finisher and Mexican league stand outs, Atlante.
The Dynamo ensured DC United's exit tonight with a 3-1 victory while Atlante dispatched fellow
Primera División side CD Guadalajara 2-0 to secure the second place spot.
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In the all MLS / all Primera División SuperLiga derbies tonight, the Houston Dynamo will take
on the all but eliminated DC United at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C at 8:00PM Eastern.
On the other side of the country Atlante will play CD Guadalajara at Buck Shaw in Santa Clara
(beware of all the damned vampires) at 10:00PM Eastern, with all four teams in the group looking at
chances to advance.
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Group A played the 2nd round of games yesterday and neither of our MLS teams fared very well.
Chivas scored the only goal of the game to beat Houston 1-0. This put Chivas into the semifinals.
Atlante secured a 3-2 victory over DC United which ensures that DC United has no chance at the
semi-finals.
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Just shy of 29,000 were in attendance last night at Robertson Stadium to find out which of these
two sides would rise to the top of Group A.
After a dominating performance over Atlante, many Dynamo fans were I'm sure hoping that orange
would carry the day; however an Omar Arellano strike in the 71st minute dashed those hopes and
instead, the Mexican league side, CD Guadalajara is in the best seat.
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Group A play resumes tonight, Tuesday, July 15 as D.C. United tries to earn a victory against
Atlante at RFK Stadium while Houston will want to continue their winning ways while facing CD
Guadalajara in Robertson Stadium.
Tickets here ->
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The 2008 Superliga will get on with the 2nd round of games today. This is what the groups look
like right now:
Group A
pts - w - l - t - (gf - ga) team
3 - 1 - 0 - 0 - (4-0) Houston Dynamo
3 - 1 - 0 - 0 - (2-1) CD Guadalajara
0 - 0 - 1 - 0 (1-2) D.
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D.C. United 1 : 2 C.D. Guadalajara
Superliga, Match Day 1
Six Word Novel Recap
Lights go out with United's hopes.
Six Word Novel Literary Criticism of Six Word Novel Recap
That recap is over-dramatic, too sentimental.
Media, Traditional and Otherwise
The Washington Times, John Haydon: ".
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Interesting stuff going on in the world of North American soccer this weekend.
On Thursday Chivas USA and the LA Galaxy both turned down the Western Conference lead while playing
to a very entertaining 1-1 draw. Only one of the four teams that could take the conference lead
with a win did, with Real Salt Lake taking the top spot.
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MLS Rumors 13 July @ 04:51 PM EST
Waiting for tonight's SuperLiga matches to get under way?
Missed the matches last night because you were out or forgot to Tivo them?
Don't have Telefutura?
You're in luck. Here we present to you both matches in their entirety. (Note: The last 15 mins of
DC vs Guadalajara are at the beginning of the Houston Dynamo vs Atlante clip.
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It was a game of two halves, wasn't it? That, or a game of two hit posts and a missed
penalty.
United fell 2-1 to Chivas de Guadalajara tonight at RFK Stadium in its first game in Group A
SuperLiga play. Chivas got goals from Omar Arellano (24th minute) and Gonzalo Pineda (72nd minute),
while United's lone tally came from Luciano Emilio's foot (76th minute).
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Apologies, but for some reason our MatchTracker isn't working this evening. If there are a few
of you looking to follow the game, I'll give periodic updates here.
24th minute: Chivas goal by Omar Arellano (assist Ramon Morales). 1-0 Chivas.
56th minute: McTavish gets free down the middle of the goal box, but his shot slams off
the post and out of danger.
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If we want a positive spin, it's this. Everything went wrong from United, and they only lost by
a goal. Twice shots rattled off the woodwork. A Jaime Moreno penalty was saved. The first Chivas
goal was a result of Clyde Simms and Bryan Namoff falling down one second and twenty yards apart.
The second was some muddled attempt at breaking out.
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With a host of injuries, Coach Tom Soehn has had to make a few adjustments to his usual starting
lineup. The team will be sticking to the 4-4-2 it has recently been running out - here's how
they'll start this evening:
Zach Wells; Bryan Namoff, Devon McTavish, Marc Burch, Gonzalo Martinez; Craig Thompson, Clyde
Simms, Rod Dyachenko, Fred; Luciano Emilio, Jaime Moreno
Subs: James Thorpe, Pat Carroll, Mike Zaher, Ryan Cordeiro, Quavas Kirk, Dane Murphy, Francis
Doe.
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Today, United turns its focus from League and U.S. Open Cup play to focus on another tournament
(it's fourth of five competitions in 2008) now in its second year - SuperLiga. The competition pits
the best teams from Mexico against the best from MLS with eight total teams competing. United's
first match comes against CD Guadalajara - a team D.
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MLS Rumors 11 July @ 11:13 PM EST
A lot is riding on the SuperLiga match tomorrow between these two traditional powers.
For Guadalajara, they have never won a match at RFK Stadium despite being very close on at least
one occasion.
For DC United, they are looking to test the mettle of an in-season, in-form United squad vs their
international rival who they seem to meet in every competition, CONCACAF, Copa Sudamericana and now
SuperLiga.
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MLS Rumors 06 May @ 03:19 PM EST
The following appears to be a description of the man charged with the stabbing in what appears to
be a University of Houston police/security report:
SUSPECT: Potentail description: dark skinned, hispanic male, approximately 5'5",
with spikey hair, that was wearing a Battalion shirt.
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MLS Rumors 19 April @ 07:20 AM EST
Rating: 5 (Very good)
Could Chivas USA make a big summer signing in the form of the highly versatile Ramon Morales from
Chivas Guadalajara? It's almost certain according to ESPN Deportes.
This comes courtesy of Sideline Views:
"Finally," and I'm quoting [ESPNDeportes] (John) Sutcliffe now, "I'll
leave you with this: Ramon Morales will be the new signing of Chivas USA.
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The DCenters 02 October @ 09:51 PM EST
D.C United 2 : 2 CD Guadalajara (AGGREGATE)
D.C United 0 : 1 CD Guadalajara (AWAY GOALS)
D.C. UNITED ELIMINATED ON AWAY GOALS
For a time, I thought that it could work. That the strategy of playing a strong, defensive shape
and locking down the game might see us through. I didn't think it was possible entering the match.
I thought United needed one more goal to ice the game.
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