This is turnning to be a great rivalry already, something that the MLS was lacking. I know many of u don't agree with having USA Chivas but I think it will turn out to be a very smart move by Mls. This rivalry will bring passionate and excited fans and i'm sure sometimes will get out of hand but it will only benefit MLS and Usa soccer. Mls will finally have a Boca vs Rplate or Barcelona vs Real, Rangers vs Celtic.. type of games.
I too enjoy the rivalry... I think it may extent to Chivas vs. all other MLS teams, because you're going to have a lot of gringos who want to show Chivas they know how to play. I think it is great... But before we dub it a "Rangers vs. Celtic" or "Barca vs. Real" or "Arsenal vs. ManU"... LA and Chivas actually need to sit at the top of the league for a few years... those rivalries are about the Top 2 teams in the league. For all we know Chivas might suck and LA may continue as a perennial underachiever... their rivalry may be more along the lines of a Derby NOT a "1" vs. "2" - that is something that must be earned.
After their first season it's probably end up being like the Lakers and Clippers playing where no one cares anymore.
i disagree, outside of the US most rivalries come to be due to location, not position on the table. rangers/celtic (glascow), river/boca (buenos aires), arsenal/tottenham (london), man u/man city (manchester), etc. obviously they are better if the game is for more than pride and the teams are close in quality, but that is not how true ones are created because teams will not always be good.
I disagree, with players such as Broome who dont back off from a fight + hispanic fiery temper it could be a good one.
Reread the post. I never said there aren't geographic rivalries. He just referenced some that are based on league contention - Real & Barca aren't geographic rivals. Sure, he references Boca & Riverplate... Rangers & Celtic... but they are much more so the rivals because they are contending for 1 & 2 each season... Your statement and my statement aren't mutually exclusive.
Meanwhile Players are not loyal to the Jersey there can't be no clasic or rivalry. These players belong to the league not to the team. To build a clasico you need a little hatred. These guys get their check under the same payroll.
Add to this rivalry one stadium each calls home, and you have a sports equivallent of Northern Ireland, Kashmir and Israel-Palestine -- but let's hope it's more like the Jets-Sharks thing (with a ChivaChick as Maria).
Chivas v. Galaxy will never be the MLS Classic Match, it is always going to be LA and DC United, that has more history in it. It isn't a classic if they play in the same stadium, look at AC and Inter Milan, that's not much of a great match, yes it can be hyped better but that doesn't make it a great match. AC Milan v. Juventus that's a classic.
You need to research the Real Madrid - Barcelona rivalry, Barca and Madrid might not be in the same city, but it is a more intense geographic rivalry than Atletico vs. Madrid, the two cities despise each other historically it is a rivalry equally as much if not more about politics and the geographical rivalry between these two citites than it is about the soccer game. I understand the point you were trying to make and I know this has nothing to do with the topic of the board, but the Madrid - Barca rivalry is the super classico it is because of all the external factors that make the game so much more important than a competition between the traditional #'s 1 and 2 in the league
I think it's good that the rivalry that hasn't started yet was born out of tension and controversy with the myraid of different opinions on the race issue and on the two teams sharing a stadium. I also agree that when the league isn't a single entity and teams can truly control their future will the rivalry really erupt. My only knock on Chivas is that the team should be called Chivas Los Angeles instead of the obvious cheesy marketing tool that is Chivas USA
Only lately. The DC vs LA rivalry goes back to the first MLS Cup. For only four years (the Donovan era) has San Jose been good enough for the match-up to have "oomph". Now that he's gone - erm, I see it fading. Just in time, though, DC is resurgent!
on top of that if LA would have won at least two more championships when they had a chance it would probably be more of a rivalry. like taking advantage of homefield for MLS finals imagine if we had gone to all the finals here in LA and won them. add that with the win in foxboro we would have had four stars. The galaxy reminds me of my ex- girlfriend things are awesome for 6 months then come the fall boom they're out.
Keep in mind that some of the heat from these rivalries is because the sport is such a huge deal that team vs. team really does become city vs. city, class vs. class, ethnicity vs. ethnicity, or religion vs. religion. The idea that each team has a typical fan with a certain affiliation to one of those demographics is pretty foreign in the U.S. The teams have to run deep with their ties to that fan base. We have seen some of that with the geographic/world view differences between San Jose and L.A., and we could see a higher level rivalry, founded on other differences, betwen the Galaxy and Chivas.