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Integrating our players to our family

March 8th, 2012
 

Union Ultras don’t just support for 90+ minutes during our regular season games, we also have our preseason when the Ultras start working, every season we do different activities and events but today I want you to know how we welcome our players.

During this past pre-season our Chivas USA played our hated rival the Galaxy and it was a perfect day to welcome our new players especially after playing  those bastards. We welcomed all of the newly signed players, at that moment some of them didn’t realize how big the rivalry between this teams is, we made a statement by giving them a anti-galaxy shirt, from veteran James Riley to rookie Casey Townsend they all received an anti-galaxy shirt. Members of the Ultras welcomed them to the club and explained to them how big of a game the Clasico is for our club and its fans.

The players from South America know a lot about this type of rivalry especially Miller Bolaños and Oswaldo Minda they know how to play a local Clasico and how important it is for the fans. They both come from teams that are in the same city and have a big rivalry, we also welcomed back players from last year like Laurent Courtois, David Lopez and Juan Pablo Angel, We decided to give them an anti-galaxy shirt because they came to Chivas at the half of the season, and to make sure they see how important is that game for us we asked all the players to leave the heart on the field for the red and white and we make them feel welcome, all the players took the shirt with a smile and thanked us for making them feel part of the family.

Our presence here is to make sure that they know that we are here to support them during the good and bad, but we also let them know that if they don’t represent our club with dignity and passion on and off the field we will be the first ones to demand better results from them!

TAILGATE: Chivas USA vs. Houston Dynamo 2012 Home Opener

March 3rd, 2012

TAILGATE IS FROM 10:00 AM-3:00 PM
KICKOFF IS AT 4:00 PM

Come join the Union Ultras for the beginning of another exciting season of Chivas USA soccer. For only $10 you can stand in Section 101 with the Union Ultras, Chivas USA’s most passionate and loyal Supporter Group and watch the Goats take on MLS Cup runners up the Houston Dynamo.

Our pre-game tailgate (Lot 13) will feature:

- Free Tacos and soft drinks
- “Los Obreros del Norte” norteño band
- DJ GOODDAN21
- Several LCD monitors will play the Lakers vs Celtics game (tip off at 12:30)
- drinking games

Tickets will be available at the tailgate in Lot 13 (http://g.co/maps/7wsb9). We will begin cleaning up at 3pm and make our way into the stadium as a group at 330pm. Food is first come first served so show up early for the free tacos. Bring your own drinks but Jose Domene (team GM) has agreed to buy everyone a beer if we get 200+ at our tailgate so bring your friends and we can get FREE BEER!!!

 


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JPA is here to stay?

January 17th, 2012
 

We shared this article yesterday on our facebook, but thought it was important to share again. It not only talks about our new 19 year old Salvadorian Midfielder Marvin Iraheta, but also about Chivas Academy defender Mario Ledezma, center back Rauwshan McKenzie, midfielder Ciaran O’Brien, MLS pool goalkeeper Kevin Guppy, teenage Mexican midfielder Pablo Sandoval, AND a goalkeeper, we don’t know much about him other than his name is Tim Melia and he played with Real Salt Lake for the last 2 seasons.

Chivas USA players train hard on the first day of Preseason Practice

AND Chivas USA academy players training with the first team midfielder Esteban Rodriguez (Palmdale/Bell Gardens HS), midfielder Marco Delgado (Glendora/Glendora HS) and Eric Gonzalez (Corona/Santiago HS), goalkeeper Jake McGuire (Chino/Damien HS) and forward Ben Spencer. Lots of local talent there

 

On top of these players, Juan Pablo Angel was at training yesterday. Even though he has not signed a contract, he is confident that he will be playing this season and did not want to fall behind by missing training. Thats COMMITMENT.

 

Will JPA make all all the difference this season?

 

All players listed above were training hard yesterday at the HDC. The article also includes the list of people who were NOT there.

 

 

ALSO here’s the preseason schedule (subject to change):

 
 

Jan. 27 vs. Ventura County Fusion at Oxnard College
Feb. 3 vs. FC Hasental at Home Depot Center
Feb. 7 vs. Colorado Rapids at site TBA
Feb. 11 vs. Chicago Fire at site TBA
Feb. 16 vs. Galaxy at Home Depot Center
Feb. 22 vs. Club Tijuana (Mexico) at University of San Diego
Feb. 27 vs. AIK (Sweden) at Portland, Ore.
Mar. 1 at Portland Timbers
Mar. 4 vs. San Jose Earthquakes at Portland, Ore.

 

 
Lets get some comments going. What do you guys think?

 

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Read articles mentioned here:

http://espn.go.com/blog/los-angeles/soccer/post/_/id/13968/chivas-usa-goats-start-with-local-signing

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2012/01/16/angel-smith-among-faces-chivas-training-camp