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*UCLA playmaker Kyle Nakazawa of Palos Verdes Estates was named a Soccer America magazine first team pre-season All-American

Recently named to the Hermann Trophy watch list, last year's team MVP has started every game of his collegiate career (45 starts) while notching seven goals and 15 assists.

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Too much soccer? Find it difficult to keep track? Me too.

Here's a cheat sheet:
Tuesday - The preliminary rounds of the CONCACAF Champions League, including Chivas USA playing in Panama, get under way in earnest. I'll have more in the morning both in my column and here.

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Five changes for Chivas USA tonight with a Tuesday CONCACAF preliminary round game looming Tuesday in Panama as Coach Preki tries to rest some starters, while defender Cary Talley is the latest to join a long injury list with a thigh strain. Six players are still out including striker Maykel Galindo

Zach Thornton is in goal, while Jim Curtin replaces Claudio Suarez as the long defensive change.

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With our Chivas USA beat writer out with pneumonia (it seems sort of fitting given the team's list of casualties) this was the preview in today's print edition (in its entirety):

San Jose (5-9-6) at Chivas USA (6-9-5)

*WHEN - 7:30 p.m.
*WHERE - Home Depot Center
*RADIO - 690 AM
*OUTLOOK - The teams are separated by just two points at the bottom of the Western Conference.

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They both played Wednesday, both a manageable distance away and both will be at Home Depot Center tonight.

But who stands a better chance of playing - Chicago's Cuauhtemoc Blanco or the Galaxy's Landon Donovan?

We know David Beckham won't be there. He's off in China for the Olympics closing ceremony. Click to continue reading...

Over the next five days more than 25 of the nation's best girls youth teams will play over 40 games in the 2008 Women's Nike Friendlies at Home Depot Center.

Teams will participate in the Under-15, Under-16 and Under-17 age categories, although the Under-14 Girls' National Team will participate in the Under-16 age group, and the U.

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Bruce Arena gets down to work at his first Galaxy coaching session.
Photo by Sean Hiller.

The former U.S. National Team coach was officially introduced as the Galaxy's coach Monday.

It's a move that suggests more than a few parallels with Arena's last MLS coaching job in New York, an angle I explored in Tuesday's column.

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It was a more relaxed-looking and less intense-sounding Bruce Arena who was introduced as the Galaxy's new general manager and coach this morning at Home Depot Center.

The former U.S. National Team coach and two-time MLS Cup winner with D.C. United was under no illusions about the scale of the task facing him to get the Galaxy into the playoffs.

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The Bruce Arena era in Los Angeles is about to begin.

The Los Angeles Galaxy has hired Bruce Arena as the team's new head coach, multiple sources told SBI on Friday.

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The Bruce Arena era in Los Angeles is about to begin.

The Los Angeles Galaxy has hired Bruce Arena as the team's new head coach, multiple sources told SBI on Friday.

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Just to prove his worthiness to coach the Los Angeles Galaxy, Bruce Arena arrived at last night's match at the Home Depot Center in his customary burst of light. (More on the potential Second Third Coming from my man Dan is here.) Click to continue reading...

After speaking with the Galaxy's Landon Donovan and Greg Vanney about Bruce Arena after the Superclasico it's clear Bruce Arena is perceived very differently by the players he coaches than the public face fans and the media see.

Here's what the pair, who have both played extensively for Arena as members of the national team, had to say about him taking the Galaxy helm.

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It was a crazy night at Home Depot Center. Between an early goal, a rally, en elbow and subsequent broken jaw and a stoppage-time equalizer, the game had a little of everything.

Of course, the on-the-field action wasn't the only thing that made the night a crazy one.

First, celebrity chef Ingrid Hoffmann was there. Click to continue reading...

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With the rumors of Bruce Arena joining the Los Angeles Galaxy growing by the day, the sight of Arena in the Galaxy box at Home Depot Center for Thursday night's match between the Galaxy and Chivas USA gave the talk even more life, but not nearly as much as comments made by AEG president Tim Leiweke about Arena during the ESPN broadcast of the match.

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Blogging could be problematic tonight because of problems with the tubes and wires of the Internet thingie here at the Home Depot Center so bear with me (hey, it's only a $150 million stadium).

But former U.S. Coach Bruce Arena is in the building this evening so you know what that means. He didn't come all the way out from the East Coast just to watch.

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The 3rd and final Super Classico of the season is tonight - I will be at the Sweetwater in St Paul watching all the action!


MLS Scoreboard

Week 21
Matches & Scores:
-Thu Aug 14
Chivas USA v Los Angeles - 10pm on ESPN2
Venue: Home Depot Center, Carson CA
Match preview by Andrea Canales at Soccernet. Click to continue reading...

Fox Soccer Channel, in its fourth consecutive season of airing college soccer games, announced its 20-game slate today that begins 7 p.m. Aug. 29 from Home Depot Center when the UCLA men play Maryland.

Eight women's games will air on Thursdays, while 12 men's matches are set for Fridays.

Meanwhile, with the college season fast approaching the polls and predictions are coming in:
*The Loyola Marymount women were picked to finish fourth in the West Coast
Conference, according to the preseason coaches poll announced today.

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Mexico will make its U.S. debut under new Coach Sven Goran Eriksson 8 p.m. Sept. 24 against Chile at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, it was announced today by officials with Federación Mexicana de Fútbol and Soccer United Marketing.

It will be Mexico's fourth game of the year on U.S. soil.

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If you're a resident of Los Angeles, I need you to go to the Home Depot Center and do whatever you can to get Alexi Lalas fired.  Alexi Lalas knows his team needs defenders, and he is close to the signing of Cory Gibbs, but the BBC is reporting that LA has made an approach [...] Click to continue reading...

Even though the men's and women's Olympic soccer tournamanets are already under way, the games proper begin Friday.

Before we get to some suggested Web sites to maximize your Olympic soccer experience, here's a trivia question for you: what percentage of the 18-player U.S. Men's Olympic roster has ties to Southern California?

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Delco Times has the scoop.

"The 18,500-seat stadium will be constructed at the foot of the Commodore Barry Bridge in Chester, just 13 miles from downtown Philadelphia and accessible by public transit and Interstate 95. The multi-purpose stadium will feature an 11,000 square foot club, 38 suites ranging in size from 8 to 21 seats (plus an owner's suite with 29 seats), a special 2,000 seat zone for the Sons of Ben supporters club, and a party deck overlooking the field and river.

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Remember those heady days of June when Euro 2008 was seemingly the main focus of everyone's attention? Well over in North and Central America, Euro 2008 couldn't have been lower on the list of priorities for that was when the CONCACAF nations continued their fight for a place in the 2010 World Cup Finals. Click to continue reading...

Zach Thornton has landed in Chicago and Jesse Marsch looks pretty happy to see his former Fire teammate (and an experienced goalkeeper). Do we assume Thornton plays today? I think we do.

Two who won't play a part in today's Chivas USA-Chicago Fire game (5:30 p.m. live on Fox Soccer Channel) are Preki (at least on the bench-he's suspended) and Blanco.

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Every year at around this time, MLS moves out of the Home Depot Center and the Galaxy and Chivas USA play a bunch of road games because of the X-Games.

It makes AEG a good chunk of change and a new field is relayed before the soccer starts up again. Here's a few shots of what's going on in the grounds instead of the beautiful game. Click to continue reading...

For today's Flashback Friday we take a look back at the All Star Game from 2000-2007



2007 All Star Game vs Celtic:



2006 All Star Game vs Chelsea:




2005 All Star Game vs Fulham:




2004 All Star Game - East vs West (who liked this format? Click to continue reading...