![]() ![]() How bad would they be if they didn’t have him? I shudder to think.Īnyway, I’m curious to see what happens to Torres now that MLS owns Chivas USA, and will sell and rebrand it at the end of the season. He’s obviously crucial to any type of success Chivas USA could hope for. and they have a guy with 14 goals on the team. At one point, this team went six league games without a goal. As a team, Chivas USA has scored 22 goals in their 27 games, and Torres has 14 of them. I know 14 goals is good on it’s own, but please let me put his scoring prowess in perspective for you. With his goal on June 28 against Real Salt Lake, the 17th of his career, he broke the record for most MLS goals by a Mexican born player. In 25 games, he has scored 14 times and assisted on one other. This year, Torres has been the only positive for an absolutely abysmal Chivas USA squad. Torres making his debut for the Mexican national team on September 9th. He was even nominated for Goal of the Year for a strike against Vancouver in September. In 15 games with Chivas USA in 2013, Torres scored seven goals and assisted in another, earning two Latino de la Jornada (MLS Latino Player of the Week) honors along the way. Guadalajara wanted Torres to get some playing time, and they had the ability to loan him out somewhere they could keep a close eye on him, so they did, and Chivas USA signed him on loan as a designated player.Īnyway, despite the fact that Chivas USA is awful, Torres has been making quite the name for himself since debuting in MLS last season. Until just this year, Chivas USA was basically a subsidiary of Guadalajara (owned by the same man, Jorge Vergara), so the loan makes perfect sense. ![]() In July of 2013, he was loaned out to Chivas USA, where he became an instant starter for the MLS club. He made his Liga Mx debut with the main Guadalajara club in 2010 at the age of 17, and netted 14 times in 64 games over the next four years. Guadalajara, more coloquially known as Chivas Guadalajara (the goats of Guadalajara). Torres was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, which is where he started playing youth fútbol with C. All that taken into consideration, I think this is a perfect opportunity to get to know him a little better. ![]() The 21 year old Guadalajara born striker currently leads Chivas USA in scoring, and recently got his first international cap for his native Mexico in a friendly against Bolivia (a solid performance in a 1-0 win for the youngster). He’ll return to Houston after this weekend.If you follow Major League Soccer closely enough, then you already know who Erick “Cubo” Torres is. Torres, who has one assist and no goals in seven appearances with the Dynamo this year, has been in camp with the Mexico U-23s since June 13. ![]() They’ll kick off the Olympics on August 4 against Germany in Salvador, Brazil. Eighteen of the 24 players at the Mexico U-23 camp will be named to the final Olympic roster they’ll be joined in Rio by three overage players. The reigning Olympic champions, Mexico were drawn into Group C with Germany, South Korea and Fiji for the Rio games. The team will continue their preparations for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro games on Saturday, when they’ll take on Nigeria in a friendly in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Torres, who went the full 90 against Pumas, did not play in Mexico’s friendly against Toluca on Wednesday morning. The 23-year-old, who was named to Mexico’s preliminary Olympic roster earlier this month, also scored in Mexico’s 4-2 win over Club America on Saturday. Torres latched onto a rebound and fired home in the 51st minute for what would prove to be the game-winning goal. Houston Dynamo striker Erick “Cubo” Torres scored in his second straight match as the Mexico U-23s defeated Liga MX club Pumas 2-1 in a pre-Olympic friendly on Tuesday. ![]()
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