[TV PREVIEW] It will be a busy week for Mexican giant Club America. It began Tuesday night in Santiago, Chile, where the Eagles fell to Colo Colo, 2-1, in the second leg of their Libertadores Cup series but moved into the quarterfinals with a 4-2 aggregate win. America returns home for two games in the quarterfinals of Mexico’s Torneo Clausura.
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Tapping Into a Gold Mine
Major League Soccer is finding ways and means to exploit the rapidly growing Hispanic sports marketplace while it steadily grows and improves its own product.
Two years ago, a pair of international soccer games were played simultaneously in Southern California. Staged less than 30 miles apart they, in effect, took place on different worlds, so vastly different were the cultures they attracted and the atmosphere they generated.
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Chivas USA Project, Year 3
The departures of head coach Bob Bradley, striker Francisco Palencia and midfielder Juan Pablo Garcia aren’t the only changes at Chivas USA. The club is reaching deeper into the Mexican-American community with programs and promotions as it strives for greater success on the field.
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The Latino Equation
How far has American soccer come in providing opportunities for young Latino players?
Financially, it’s a struggle,” says Paul Walker, the founder and president of Southern California youth club Barcelona USA. “But I come from the point of view of being the underdog. I don’t know why, it’s just the way I grew up. I took on all challenges.”
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U.S. Talent Heads South
Mexican pro clubs and Mexico’s national team program have started plucking talent from the USA.
Edgar Castillo is 20 years old and he just bought a house. A year ago, he made his Mexican First Division debut with Santos Laguna. This season, he starts at left back.
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Mexico’s Toluca crushed in Libertadores Cup
Argentine youngster Juan Manuel Martinez scored a hat trick in 13 minutes late in the first half to lead of Colombian champion Cucuta past Mexico’s Toluca, 5-1, in the first leg of their Libertadores Cup second-round series. In the other Thursday matches, Paraguayan champion Libertad came from behind to win at Brazil’s Parana, 2-1, while Nacional of Uruguay beat Mexico’s Necaxa, 3-2, in Montevideo.
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AMERICANS ABROAD: Castillo and Orozco meet in Mexico ‘repechaje’
New Mexico product Edgar Castillo, 19, was a 55th-minute sub for Santos Laguna as it fell at home, 1-0, to San Luis in the first leg of the Mexican repechaje, the preliminary playoff round of the Clausura 2007. Californian Michael Orozco, 21, came on for San Luis in the 86th minute.
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Libertadores Cup Preview
[TV PREVIEW] Four months after quitting as Boca Juniors coach, Ricardo La Volpe returns to La Bombonera Wednesday night as coach of Velez Sarsfield for the first leg of their Libertadores Cup round-of-16 series. Mexican clubs Toluca, Necaxa and Club America have both signed reinforcements for the knockout phase. Brazilian club Santos can break the Libertadores Cup record of eight straight wins it now shares with Vasco da Gama if it beats Caracas FC in Venezuela.
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U.S. U-21 women finish second in Alabama
The U.S. U-21 women’s national team finished second at the six-team Futbol Internacional Tournament in Alabama, where it fell on penalty kicks to the Canadian Olympic development team in the final after playing to a 0-0 draw in regulation.
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5. MEXICO: Pachuca leads six into quarterfinals
Pachuca, which has won championships on two continents in the last six months, defeated Atlante, 4-1, to finish Mexico’s Torneo Clausura as the overall leader of the first stage with 39 points, eight more than Guadalajara and nine more than Club America. Queretaro lasted just one year back in the First Division when it was relegated after falling to Atlas, 2-0.