By ANDREW GALVIN / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTERLast week, Santa Ana's City Council approved an agreement under which the city will negotiate for six months with Chivas USA, a Major League Soccer team that shares the Home Depot Center in Carson with the LA Galaxy, about possibly moving the team to Santa Ana, where it would build a stadium of its own.The city, in the person of Mayor Miguel Pulido, and Chivas USA have been in on-again, off-again talks about a possible move since at least 2007, when The Register first reported on the discussions.While talks until now have been informal, Chivas USA has indicated a desire to enter more formal negotiations with a view to building a stadium and practice fields on the site of Willowick Golf Course in northwest Santa Ana, Pulido said. Hence the six-month agreement.But when I asked Chivas USA's general manager, Jose Domene, about entering formal negotiations with Santa Ana, he said, "I haven't heard of this.""We have been in talks with the city of Santa Ana, as well as four other cities," Domene said. "We haven't signed with any of them or committed to any exclusivity or any type of negotiation."Domene said Santa Ana, with its many amateur soccer leagues and the Mexican roots of much of its population, offers the kind of demographics that Chivas USA, (a sister team to Mexico's Club Deportivo Guadalajara, popularly known as Chivas), is seeking. However, "this is the first I've heard of any negotiation period," he said."If formality means putting things in writing on what a potential project could be, then I would say yes," Domene said. "We'll consider their bid, their options, just like we'll consider everyone else."When I got back to Pulido and told him what Domene had said, Pulido said I needed to talk to Antonio Cue, one of the owners of Chivas USA, to get the real scoop on the formal talks. So I called Chivas USA back and asked to speak to Cue. Rodrigo Ochoa, a Chivas USA spokesman, told me Cue was traveling and unavailable, but that Cue would tell me the same thing Domene had told me.The negotiating agreement with Chivas USA that the City Council approved last week includes a signature line to be filled in by a representative of Chivas USA. I asked Pulido if he expected anyone from Chivas USA to actually sign the document. "Not necessarily," he said. "I don't want to negotiate the negotiations. I want to get right into it."Pulido said he'll be meeting with Cue this week and will try to prod the co-owner to make some sort of public statement about the existence of formal talks.
32 goals in 12 games isn't really a surprise given all the firepower they have. But none conceded? That's not the Bayern I know.
They've won 10 straight and gave up a goal in their first Bundesliga match (a loss), unless I'm missing something here.
! Thx every1!A Bolton spokeswoman confirmed to MLSsoccer.com that Holden will undergo the procedure in the coming days, and the former Houston Dynamo star is expected to be back in the selection mix by mid-November."It was looking likely that the operation could be scheduled for next summer," Wanderers boss Owen Coyle told the club's official website. "But after follow-up consultations with the specialists we have brought the date forward."Holden made a cameo return with 90 minutes in a Carling Cup win over Aston Villa last week before doctors altered his recovery course. Despite missing the final eight EPL games last term, the 26-year-old was named Bolton's Player of the Season.Moving on for now without Holden, Wanderers will try to climb off the bottom of the EPL standings and snap a five-game losing streak when they host Chelsea on Sunday afternoon.
seems like he really has been working his ### off- AND his team desperately needs him in there. that is sad news.
I guess I saw it wrong...
Cool storyAnd a video for the young ins out there. When watching this realize that it is the World Cup and he was friggan 38 years old at the time. 
