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NEW YORK, N.Y. - The troubled tenure of Jorge Vergara and Angelica Fuentes as owners of Chivas USA has ended with Major League Soccer purchasing the team. MLS said Thursday it had assumed operation of the team, which had the second-worst record in the league last year at 6-20-8 and averaged a league-low attendance of 8,366 at home. Vergara and Fuentes have controlled the Mexican club Chivas Guadalajara since 2002 and had a 50 per cent interest in Chivas USA when it was created in 2004 and started play the following year. The pair took operating control of Chivas USA in August 2012 when they bought out former partners Antonio and Lorenzo Cue, who had been running the team. "The original plan which we came up with in 2004 and executed in 05 was to extend one of soccers most venerable brands into the United States," MLS Commissioner Don Garber said during a conference call. "The concept was to take a team that in essence represented the hopes and dreams of Mexican soccer fans both in Mexico and the United States and try to extend that here to the United States. "Ultimately the concept didnt work out," he added. "I came up with the idea with folks here at the league. I dont believe it was the concept as much as there was some executional issues." The concept of a league owning a team is not unprecedented. An entity owned by Major League Baseball bought the Montreal Expos in 2002, moved the club to Washington, D.C., for the 2005 season and sold it to the Lerner family the following year. The NHL had operational control of the Phoenix Coyotes from 2009-13. MLS said Wilmer Cabrera, hired as coach on Jan. 9, will remain on the job. The league said it will sell the team to an ownership group committed to keeping the team in the Los Angeles area. Garber hopes to have a deal in place by the end of the year. "Sometimes it takes time to get this done. Were not in a rush," Garber said. Garber said the new ownership group must intend to build a new stadium, and he mentioned the site of the L.A. Sports Arena as a possibility. Chivas USA shares the StubHub Center with the Los Angeles Galaxy. David Beckham was not considered a possible buyer. The former Galaxy star exercised his option to purchase an expansion team in Miami. "I wonder if he would have thought differently if his option execution date was a year from now versus a year ago," Garber said. The team will use the Chivas USA name this year, then will get a new name and logo along with new owners. "When Angelica and I gained full operational control of the team for the first time 15 months ago, we were hopeful we would be able to turn it around," Vergara said in a statement. "However, there is only one Chivas de Guadalajara, and we have realized that it will require more time, further resources, and a level of commitment that would divert too much of our focus from our other business interests." Two former Chivas USA youth coaches, Daniel Calichman and Theothoros Chronopoulos, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the team last May in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claiming they were fired because they arent Mexican or Latino. "Its been resolved. Its no longer a pending case." Garber said. "It was resolved very recently." Mookie Betts Jersey .com) - There may be a debate in Philadelphia about who should be the starting quarterback of the Eagles. Christian Vazquez Jersey . A steady downpour and low temperatures were predicted for much of the night. 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Webber, who is fifth in the championship, earned his second pole from the past three races and 13th of his career.Wes Morgan is no Franz Beckenbauer, according to former Nottingham Forest chairman Frank Clark, but he says there may be a few people at the club who regret selling him to Leicester. Clark presided over the club when Forest sold Morgan to their local Championship rivals for a fee believed to be in the region of £1m in 2012.Morgan, 32, is now on the cusp of captaining the Foxes to the Premier League title and Clark insists he fully deserves the glory. Morgans fairytale rise Former team-mate Gregor Robertson talks about Wes Morgans rise to the top Speaking to Sky Sports News HQ, the 1979 European Cup winner with Forest said: What I admired about Wes was his attitude. He was a bit of a throwback - a warrior.Hes no Beckenbauer, and he never thought he was going to be Beckenbauer, but him and Robert Huth are what I would call no nonsense defenders and theyre as good as any pairing in the league at the moment.There will be a few people in and around Nottingham Forest, or maybe a few who arent there anymore, who will be thinking perhaps I was wrong about him. Clark (left) was part of Nottm Forests 1979 European Cup-winning side Clark was part of the famous Forest side under Brian Clough that won the 1978 league and cup double and the 1979 European Cup final against Malmo FF.ddddddddddddOf comparisons with Leicesters unlikely title tilt, he said it is a completely different era and that comparisons are a bit invidious but what theyre doing is amazing.Clark said: Its a real fairytale. Theyve got the lads at the right time, like Brian and Peter Taylor did with us, and theyre a team in the real sense of the word. 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