Pro Soccer News: CHIVAS USA and Fans Help Clean the Beach

Chivas USA and MLS W.O.R.K.S., Major League Soccer’s community outreach initiative, showed everyone how working together we can all make a difference.  The Chivas USA soccer community,  together with Heal the Bay, a well known environmental awareness organization, hosted a different kind of beach day, one dedicated to the preservation of our ocean.  

Last Saturday, April 16, Chivas USA and MLS W.O.R.K.S. hosted this fabulous community event and it was a time to give back to the environment.  The ChivaGirls, ChivaFighter, Chivas USA front office staff, and Chivas USA fans worked together to clean up Torrance Beach.  This was the first ever Chivas USA beach clean up day and it was a wonderful success.

Hundreds of volunteers participated to be part of the effort to clean-up debris along Torrance Beach. Friends, families and members of the Chivas USA family walked the beach together in bright green shirts, cleaning up the beach and having a great time.

According to Eduard Cauich of Chivas USA, the event was "Awesome. It went great!"

 

CHIVAS USA Fans and Families came together to help clean up Torrence Beach.

 

Founded on August 2, 2004, as Major League Soccer's then-eleventh team, Los Angeles-based Club Deportivo Chivas USA has achieved great growth in just six seasons in MLS. From 2006-2009, the Mexican-owned club qualified for the playoffs in four consecutive seasons, to the delight of its passionate supporters. The club has also earned a number of awards from MLS and from local organizations, both for its performance on the field and efforts in the community. Chivas USA is sister team to Club Deportivo Guadalajara, popularly known as Chivas, Mexico’s most beloved soccer club. As the only wholly Mexican-owned team in major professional sports in the United States, Chivas USA brings a different approach to the American sports landscape, centered on its core values of passion, heritage, competitiveness, inspiration and community. Chivas USA is a subsidiary of Chivas USA Enterprises LLC, and is run by Investor-Operator Antonio Cué Sánchez-Navarro. Chivas USA is owned by Mexican investors Jorge Vergara Madrigal, owner of Club Deportivo Guadalajara, as well as Cué.

 

 

 

 

 

MLS W.O.R.K.S. is Major League Soccer's community outreach initiative dedicated to addressing important social issues affecting young people and serves as a platform for League and club philanthropic programs.  MLS W.O.R.K.S. seeks to establish Major League Soccer as a leader for improving the lives of people through sport. For more information visit the website at www.MLSsoccer.com/works

Heal the Bay is a nonprofit environmental organization, founded more than 20 years ago by a group of Los Angeles residents who couldn’t stand to let unchecked pollution and toxicity claim our coastal waters and the animals, fish, and birds who live there. Heal the Bay’s strategy is to employ sound science, passionate advocacy, effective legislation and wide-reaching education to improve the quality and health of our beaches and waterways