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Entertainment & Sports

May 30, 2013

Soccer coaches file racial discrimination complaint against team

Two youth soccer coaches formerly employed by Chivas USA filed a racial discrimination and harassment lawsuit filed has caused a hubbub in the Major League Soccer world.


By Laura Hautala


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A racial discrimination and harassment lawsuit filed by two youth soccer coaches formerly employed by Chivas USA caused a hubbub in the Major League Soccer world Tuesday, highlighting controversy created by the California team's apparent shift toward hiring mostly Mexican or other Latino players.


The team fired Theothoros Chornopoulos and Daniel Calichman - both onetime MLS players - "as par...

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