SOCCER: Sheppard's gamble proves to be a success

Southern California soccer fans partied like it was 1999. The Home Depot Center might be soccer-specific and fan friendly, but the Rose Bowl is still the granddaddy of soccer stadiums when it's near capacity and flourishing like it was Tuesday night with world soccer powers Chelsea FC and Inter Milan in town for the World Football Challenge, a ...

[VanillaNice]

Ho-Hum. The American soccer community gets a brief day in the sun as spectators. Soccer will always be a boring sport relative to football, basketball, and baseball.

[Fan of LAFC Chelsea]

Way to go Don. Let's get some underprivileged kids some scholarships to play soccer.

[soccer fan]

Flyers does anybody that sings praises remember that name which became LAFC-Flyers and than eventually just LAFC this was a club that was taken over not founded.

[Matt Phillips]

Scott Wolf, I didn't know your online name was VanillaNice? Do you always read articles about things you don't like just to make nasty comments?

Thanks for the great article, Fred. A minor factual point: The championship trophy has been redesigned and re-named the I-let-Tim-Leiweke-make-a-farce -of-everything-you-love Trophy, er, I mean, the Phil Anschutz trophy. Well, I like the new design.