Owner of Mexico’s Chivas soccer team dies at 64
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Vergara saw Chivas as a national treasure and managed it that way. One of the founding members of the Mexican league and one of just two teams that have never been relegated to the second division, Chivas is the only club in Mexico that doesn’t allow foreign players on its roster. That nationalist streak proved unworkable when he joined a team of investors that included his former wife, Angelica, in putting up $10 million to found MLS club Chivas USA in 2005.Vergara hoped to use the team, which shared StubHub Center in Carson with the Galaxy, as a sister club to his Mexican team, and the youth-development system he established under sporting director Dennis te Kloese — now the Galaxy’s general manager — was one of the best in MLS.
Early in 2014, the league bought out Vergara, folded the team after the season, then sold the rights to a second Southern California franchise to a sprawling group of Hollywood dealmakers who founded LAFC.The son of a Guadalajara executive, Vergara skipped college and worked as an office runner, mechanic, translator and maitre d’, among other jobs. When his attempt at a wholesale food business failed, Vergara was, in his words, “fat, sick and broke.
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