Monday, June 9, 2008

FC Dallas to face “Chivas” Guadalajara at Pizza Hut Park on June 29

By Pegasus News wire

FC Dallas and Soccer United Marketing (SUM) announced that Mexico’s most popular team, Club Deportivo Guadalajara, commonly known as Chivas, will play FC Dallas of Major League Soccer on Sunday, June 29 at 8:00 p.m. CT at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas, as part of its United States tour. SUM represents the brand, marketing and promotional aspects of Chivas in the United States.

Photo not provided by FC Dallas Communications

Known in most circles as Las Chivas (the goats)

The June 29 match will mark Guadalajara’s third match on U.S. soil as part of its 2008 tour. On January 13, Chivas de Guadalajara defeated Colombia’s Deportivo Cali 2-1 at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, FL. To start their summer preseason, Chivas will face the New York Red Bulls on June 25 in Phoenix, before heading to Dallas. Guadalajara’s fourth match of its U.S. Tour will be August 3, when Chivas faces FC Barcelona in Chicago.

Mexico’s most successful club of all time with 11 Mexican league titles, Chivas recently wrapped up a successful 2008 Torneo Clausura in which the Guadalajara club finished first in the regular season standings, with a 9-2-6 regular season record, before falling to semifinalists Monterrey in the first round of the playoffs in mid May. The most popular club in Mexico which fields only Mexican players, Chivas is home to some of Mexico’s national team stars such as Ramón Morales, Alberto Medina, Johnny Magallón and Luis Ernesto Michel. The club will begin preparing for the 2008 Apertura season with the June matches, its pre-season tour through Germany and its SuperLiga participation in beginning July 12.

FC Dallas is led by Mexican national Duilio Davino, with Kenny Cooper, Arturo Alvarez and Juan Toja on the attack.

Chivas Guadalajara and FC Dallas faced each other last on July 24, 2007 during the first edition of SuperLiga. The match ended in a one goal tie at Pizza Hut Park.

FC Dallas season ticket holders and Hoops Nation members will have a special pre-sale opportunity to purchase tickets by calling the FC Dallas front office by Tuesday, June 10 close of business. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Wednesday, June 11 at 10:00 a.m. CT and start as low as $18 dollars. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more. Tickets can be purchased by visiting the Pizza Hut Park box office, via phone at 888-FCD-GOAL, at all Ticketmaster locations, or by visiting www.fcdallas.com or www.ticketmaster.com.

FC Dallas Full Season Plan holders will use the Bonus Game “B” tickets in the 2008 season ticket booklet. Parking is free for all FC Dallas games at Pizza Hut Park.

Source: FC Dallas Communications

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