Jesus Padilla is not the only American-born player within Chivas Guadalajara's ranks.
Mexican daily Mural published a story in their sports section Cancha on Friday about Carlos Borja, who spent last season with Chivas USA. Again, I'd post a link but mural.com is a pay site which I just recently got access to. But I don't think they'd mind if I posted some of the highlights here.
Borja was born in Orange and went to Loara High in Anaheim. He also spent time at Bradenton in the U.S. Under-17 Residency Program. Borja was signed by Chivas USA to a developmental program last year and joined the club from their Under-19 team.
Between the end of last year and the beginning of this year, he vanished. We never heard anything about his whereabouts and assumed he just pursued other options elsewhere.
His path led him to Guadalajara, apparently. He is with Tapatio, Chivas' Primera A (second division) team.
"He is a player who belongs to Chivas USA," Tapatio coach German Lopez told Mural. "We brought him to Mexico. He's Mexican but he lived in Los Angeles, and after a recent scouting trip to the United States he came as a reinforcement with the Reserve Side as a Mexican."
Lopez also acknowledged Borja's U.S. youth national team past. Having plucked him from Chivas USA's ranks was not much of an issue, apparently.
"We know of him because of Chivas USA," Lopez told Mural. "As we're brothers, well, any interesting player who Chivas USA has and is Mexican, we have priority over him and that's what happened with Borja."
Borja was on the bench for Tapatio's game against Morelia in Estadio Jalisco but has yet to play for Tapatio.
"He is the first Chivas USA player who comes to reinforce Guadalajara and honestly we feel he is a player who will be very important within a short amount of time here in this institution. Borja is very close to being in the First Division," Lopez said.
Borja's parents were each born in Mexico.
4 comments:
How sad, this is the real reason behind this is that vergara wants to fill the tam up with pochos from Chivas usa, it's sad becuz weve had a tradition for so long and everybody knew veragara wanted to change it amd now he has. the tradition has always been clear, only players born in Mexico. pochos arent mexican but i guess that's good enough for vergara. next thing you know it wont just be 1 it'll be 4 or 5 or 7 pochos playing for Chivas, and eventually itll be naturalizados like cinha and franco. their selling out the country to the americans.
"We know of him because of Chivas USA," Lopez told Mural. "As we're brothers, well, any interesting player who Chivas USA has and is Mexican, we have priority over him and that's what happened with Borja."
This is even more sad. Chivas USA is now a feeder team for Chivas de Guad? I don't know of this helps the MLS.
Pocho power!!
Yeah, I find it interesting how this will play out. If Chivas USA becomes a feeder team of Mexican-American talent to CD Guadalajara.
If anything, I expected it the other way around. Oh well, I guess that will just make more space for non mexican-americans on Chivas USA.
P.S.
Oh man, the p word, haven't heard that one in a while.
I have an idea for a song now.
"Don't call me pocho, wetbaaaack.
Don't call me wetback, pochooo"
Borja never played a first-team minute for Chivas USA, I think... Chivas Guadalajara is welcome to our reserve players.
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