Chivas Select Team to Face Mexico's Santos Laguna in Friendly Match to Benefit Gulf Coast Hurricane Victims; Fox Sports en Espanol and Fox Soccer Channel to Broadcast Historic Match Live, Sunday, October 9 at 5 PM ET/2 PM PT.LOS ANGELES -- Fox Sports en Espanol and Fox Soccer Channel Fox Soccer Channel is a United States digital cable network, owned by News Corporation, that specializes in soccer. The channel took its current name on February 7, 2005; before then, the network was known as Fox Sports World, Launched Nov. 1, 1997. announced today they will offer live broadcasts in Spanish and English of a friendly match between a Chivas Select Team, featuring players from Mexico's Chivas de Guadalajara and Major League Soccer's Chivas USA, and Mexican First Division club Santos Laguna Club Santos Laguna, also known as Santos Laguna or Santos, is a Mexican professional football club. They represent la Comarca Lagunera which is made of Torreon, Gomez Palacio and Lerdo. Santos Laguna plays in the Primera División de México. to benefit hurricane victims in the Gulf Coast region. Marking the first time players from Chivas USA and sister club Chivas de Guadalajara will play together on the same team, the historic benefit match will be broadcast live Sunday, October 9, at 5 PM ET/2 PM PT from the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium. The match also will be broadcast internationally by Fox Sports Latin America, Fox Sports World Canada Fox Sports World Canada is a Canadian English language category 2 digital cable specialty channel owned by CanWest MediaWorks Inc. FSWC's programming primarily features soccer with select programming on other world sports such as rugby. and Fox Sports Middle East and Africa. "We're immensely proud to be the exclusive television home for this very special match," said David Sternberg, executive vice president and general manager of both channels. "In addition to raising much needed funds to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast, the game promises to be an instant classic among soccer enthusiasts who have grown up with the Chivas legacy and love the excitement and passion of Mexican soccer." The one-of-a-kind match is being presented by Chivas USA in conjunction with Santa Barbara Soccer Entertainment. Tickets, which start at just $20, are now available at select outlets in the Tri-County Area (comprising Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. counties), as well as through TicketMaster. "The Chivas family is hoping to make an important contribution to the people affected by the recent natural disasters in the Gulf Coast. We look forward to helping the relief efforts as best we can, while also giving fans a chance to see their heroes of Chivas Guadalajara and Chivas USA take on a top Mexican side such as Santos Laguna in an exciting afternoon of world-class soccer," said Antonio Cue, President and Co-Owner of Chivas USA. Club Deportivo Chivas USA Club Deportivo Chivas USA (short form: Chivas USA) is a professional football club based in Carson, California that participates in Major League Soccer. The club, founded in 2004, plays its home games at The Home Depot Center, sharing it with the Los Angeles Galaxy. , an expansion team playing its first season in MLS See multilevel security. , is sister club to Chivas Guadalajara, Mexico's most popular soccer team. Chivas USA is coached by Dutchman Hans Westerhof and includes such Chivas Guadalajara legends as Ramon Ramirez and Juan Francisco 'Paco' Palencia, as well as promising American-based players like Antonio 'Chiva' Martinez, Orlando Perez and Santa Barbara's own Rodrigo Lopez. The club, which is co-owned by Mexican businessmen Jorge Vergara and Antonio Cue, plays its home games at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Los Angeles County, California Los Angeles County is a county in California and is by far the most populous county in the United States. Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau give an estimated 2006 population of 9,948,081 residents,[1] while the California State government's population bureau lists a . Club Deportivo Guadalajara Club Deportivo Guadalajara, also known as Guadalajara and usually referred to by its nickname Chivas (Goats), also referred to as the All Mexican Team is a Mexican sports club. , popularly known as 'Chivas', is Mexico's most popular soccer team, with an estimated 30 million fans across Mexico and the United States Relations between the United States and Mexico are among the most important and complex that each nation maintains. They are shaped by a mixture of mutual interests, shared problems, and growing interdependence. . Winners of a record ten Mexican league championships and semifinalists in the 2005 Copa Toyota Libertadores transmitted exclusively on Fox Sports en Espanol, the Guadalajara-based team is coached by Spaniard Javier Azcargorta and is currently in fourth place in Group 3 of the Mexican Apertura 2005 season. Santos Laguna, winner of two Mexican league championships and one of the Cinderella stories of the 2004 Copa Toyota Libertadores, is based in the city of Torreon in the border state of Coahuila, Mexico. Led by former Chivas Guadalajara player and coach Eduardo 'Yayo' de la Torre, the team is currently in third place in Group 2 of the Mexican Apertura 2005 season. Santa Barbara Soccer Entertainment, led by President, Founder and Santa Barbara native Rudy Ybarra, has been promoting international soccer matches for the past 13 years in the United States and China. For more information on this historic benefit match between the Chivas Select Team and Santos Laguna, please call 1-877-CHIVAS-1 or visit www.CDCHIVASUSA.com, the official web site of Club Deportivo Chivas USA. About Fox Sports en Espanol and Fox Soccer Channel Fox Sports en Espanol features more than 1,500 hours of live, exclusive sports programming in Spanish and, with few exceptions, English SAP each year, including the Copa Toyota Libertadores, Copa Nissan Sudamericana and InterLiga soccer tournaments; the Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. playoffs, All-Star Game and World Series; and championship boxing from Mexico and the U.S. The channel reaches more than 7 million cable and satellite households in the U.S. Fox Sports en Espanol is distributed by Fox Cable Networks Group and operated by Fox Pan American Sports LLC, an international sports programming and production entity jointly owned by Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and News Corporation's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NWS) Fox Sports International Fox Sports International is an international sports programming and production entity housed within the Fox Networks Group, one of the major operating units within Fox Entertainment Group and News Corporation. . Fox Soccer Channel is affiliated with Fox Sports International, an international sports programming and production entity housed within Fox Networks Group. Fox Networks Group, an operating unit of the Fox Entertainment Group, consists of the FOX Broadcasting Company, Fox Cable Networks, FOX Sports and Fox Networks Engineering & Operations (FNE&O). For more information on the networks, visit Fox Soccer Channel online at foxsoccer.com and Fox Sports en Espanol at fse.yahoo.com. |
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