One of the worst displays of professional football I have ever seen came from my home town team Chivas USA in their inaugural 2005 season. Club owner Jorge Vergara had boosted “the peace and quiet ends now”, or something along those lines, making it seem as if the Guadalajara franchise was going to revolutionize Major League Soccer.
That, however, never happened as Chivas display on the field went from bad to worse. And of all the players from the very first Chivas USA team that have long disappeared the one that always comes to mind is Thiago Martins; The Brazilian striker from Sao Paolo whose pursuit of the American dream took him from beach bum to professional football player.
Martins also has the distinction of being the first player to score an official goal for Chivas USA assuring that his name will long be linked to the Los Angeles club. Other than that Martins was rather useless. He sucked so bad that the USSF did not even try to cap him. And after three years in MLS and having only scored six goals Martins ended up at FK Bodø/Glimt of the Norwegian top flight. Martins scored 20 goals in his first season and his since become the clubs most valuable player!
Hector Cuadros will forever be in my heart.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing Cuadros rocking the no.10 jersey and I thought he would be something special. Needless to say he seems to have cursed the number and the club has never had a worthy player of wearing sucj a coveted number!
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