Chukwudi Chijindu

Clubs can protect 11 players ahead of the 10-round draft for the Montreal Impact, which will join MLS next year. A team can only lose one player. Wonder if Impact Coach Jesse Marsch will take a player from his most recent former club, Chivas USA? Will he bring home Canadian Ante Jazic, a solid addition to any expansion team's backline? Jovan Kirovski, 35, is not on either the protected or unprotected lists for the Galaxy, suggesting he will retire. Kirovski made just two starts and played 244...Read Full Story

From left, Chivas USA players Mariano Trujillo, Chukwudi Chijindu, and Michael Lahoud pose with an organ donor family member Saturday at this year's Donate Life Rose Parade Float in Pasadena (Photos courtesy Chivas USA). For the third successive year Chivas USA and Donate Life have joined forces to create awareness for organ and tissue donation in Southern California and today players from the club joined members of the nonprofit group in helping decorate its Rose Bowl Parade float. It's...Read Full Story

Ten-year-old Tylo Kenneth wears a colored mohawk wig while walking through the spectator zone on the V Waterfront in Cape Town (AP Photo). *"The People's Game" latest podcast from KPFK that includes me talking about the U.S.-England game the morning after the night before is here. *Univision said today about four million viewers - double the 2006 figures despite the time similarity - watched the opening game of the World Cup Friday. Almost 5.4 million watched the Mexico-South Africa opener...Read Full Story

Braun verses Torres: Chivas USA striker Justin Braun and the Union's Roger Torres clash Saturday in Carson (AP Photo). Quotable: "Our goal was to win tonight, of course, and to turn this around," said Chivas USA Coach Martin Vasquez. "We were unlucky a couple of times. I'm happy and pleased with the effort, but I'm disappointed with the result." Game story. Chivas USA lineup: Zach Thornton, Mariano Trujillo, Ante Jazic, Michael Umaña, Dario Delgado, Osael Romero (Ben Zemanski 71), Jonathan...Read Full Story

Columbus Crew 1 Chivas USA 0 A sickening way to lose a game for Chivas USA, striker Justin Braun conceding a wholly unnecessary penalty in the 89th minute at the end of a final 45 minutes Chivas USA not only dominated, but saw two Crew goal line clearances within a minute deny them a road win. Chivas USA Coach Martín Vásquez sounded as if he'd been punched in the stomach: "We had the ball, we had the possession, we had the tempo, and we had a couple of great chances at least to put on in. I'm...Read Full Story