CHIVAS USA TOP MOMENTS 2005
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Opening Day (April 2) - Winner
Chivas USA’s historic first game in front of more than 18,000 at The Home Depot Center. ChivaTown is inaugurated, the ChivaGirls are introduced, Chivas USA takes the field for its first MLS game, and Los Angeles sees for the first time the electric atmosphere of a Chivas USA home game. |
First Chivas USA goal (April 9)
Thiago Martins slams home the team’s very first goal in front of a pro-Chivas crowd during the team’s first-ever road game, at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. |
First ‘Clásico’ (April 23)
Los Angeles witnesses for the first time the passion of an intra-city soccer rivalry – the first ever in the history of U.S. pro sport – when Galaxy faces Chivas USA in front of a packed house at The Home Depot Center. |
‘Doble Clásico’ seen by 88,000 (August 10)
Nascent rivals Chivas USA and the Galaxy, and eternal Mexican rivals Guadalajara and América, face off in a unique international doubleheader featuring the first-ever MLS regular-season game at the LA Memorial Coliseum. Among the more than 88,000 on hand (the second-largest attendance in MLS history) is Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. |
Debut of Palencia and Juan Pablo García (October 9)
Chivas USA’s high-profile midseason signings, Mexican internationals Francisco Palencia and Juan Pablo García, both score in their debut for Chivas USA, in front of yet another pro-Chivas road crowd, this time at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. |
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