Chivas USA, which has been sharing the Home Depot Center with the Los Angeles Galaxy, will have a training facility of its own next spring in the city of Bells Gardens, where ground was broken on the $10 million Bell Gardens Sports Center. It will include four natural grass fields and two artificial turf fields.
Chivas USA will also hold reserve-team practices and host Futbolito tournaments and soccer clinics at the Center, which lies 13 miles from Home Depot Center, where Chivas USA will continue to play its games.
The complex was funded by the city of Bell Gardens.
''When we saw what they were undertaking and we talked to them about partnering with them and lending our support from a commercial standpoint and bringing sponsorship to the facility – from a programming standpoint, bringing what we do best to the facility – they saw it as a win-win, we saw it as a win-win,'' Chivas USA General Manager Whit Haskel told mlsnet.com.