Saturday, May 19, 2007

Smack talk in Spanish

Here's my Chivas USA/Galaxy preview.

In it, I've got a Landon Donovan quote about how he doesn't like to lose to Mexican teams. Jaime Cardenas, who covers Chivas USA, took that over to the Chivas USA players and got their response in his preview.

Jesse Marsch responded that if it bothers Landon, he's happy to change his name to Jesus.

Paulo Nagamura, meanwhile, comes from the English school of "avoid saying anything that could end up a tabloid headline" and he wouldn't come up with even a little bit of smack talk against his former team.

Nagamura's a bulldog on the pitch, but one of the quietest players off it.

As Yallop points out to Jaime - Chivas USA could be more energized and inspired by having the Guevara drama behind them and Sacha Klejestan back in the lineup. It should be a barn-burner of a game.

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