Chivas USA News

Galaxy coach Bruce Arena won't have much time in the offseason to consider how he'll retool what Sunday's MLS Cup exposed as an aging, slow and tired team.

Reporting from Seattle - The 2009 Major League Soccer season has been inked into the record books, the final entry written in the claret red, cobalt blue and real gold colors of new champion Real Salt Lake.

The callup of Castillo, who plays for Tigres in Mexico and the Houston Dynamo's Stuart Holden and Ricardo Clark follows weekend play in Mexico and MLS.

Preki Radosavljevic, Major League Soccer's only two-time MVP, is Toronto FC's new coach.

Maybe if the Fire had reached the final, majority owner Andrew Hautpman would have been reluctant to cut him loose, but since the Fire fell agonizingly short, losing on penalty kicks, 5-4, after a 120-minute goalless slugfest with RSL Saturday night at Toyota Park, Hamlett doesn't have enough traction, it seems, to keep his job.

Houston Dynamo midfielders Ricardo Clark and Stuart Holden have been added to the U.S. roster for Wednesday's exhibition game against Denmark following their team's elimination from the Major League Soccer playoffs.

Chivas USA defender Carey Talley walked into the locker room Thursday morning before a workout and saw coach Preki still dressed.

Last weekend's loss to the Los Angeles Galaxy marked Chivas USA's third straight first-round playoff exit in Preki's three years at the helm.

Chivas USA defender Shavar Thomas has benefited from his team's elimination from the US Major League Soccer championship with a national recall.

Chivas USA goalie Zach Thornton, who was named MLS Goalkeeper of the Year last week, was named the MLS Comeback Player of the Year on Tuesday.

Injuries to Charlie Davies and Oguchi Onyewu as well as club commitments have affected U.S. coach Bob Bradley 's selection for upcoming friendlies against Slovakia and Denmark.

By Ives Galarcep, ESPNsoccernet Two teams. One stadium. One game. The Chivas USA-Los Angeles Galaxy rivalry will add a new chapter Sunday when the Home Depot Center neighbors meet in a winner-take-all playoff match that will bring one team closer to an MLS Cup, while sending the other team toward an early vacation.

The venue will be the same, but the Los Angeles Galaxy believe things will look a lot different this Sunday at the Home Depot Center.

Having ties to a rich and powerful foreign club seemed like a built-in advantage for Chivas USA.

With one playoff series underway , we break down the remaining three series, all of which kick off this weekend: Columbus vs.

Shalrie Joseph scored in the 75th minute to lift the New England Revolution to a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Fire on Sunday in the opening game of their Eastern Conference semifinal series.

"Years have gone by and I've finally learned to accept myself for who I am: A beggar for good soccer.

David Beckham will lead the Galaxy against Chivas USA on Sunday. After a ludicrous start to the season in which the Galaxy won one, lost one and tied 10 in league play through the end of May, Coach Bruce Arena's overhaul of the roster finally began to take shape.

Maykel Galindo's goal in the 45th minute Sunday gave Chivas USA a 2-2 Major League Soccer playoff draw with the Los Angeles Galaxy.

The World Series might have shifted to Philadelphia, but as far as brotherly love is concerned Carson seems to have cornered the market, at least on the soccer front.