Sports & Recreation

Los Angeles, CA--(HISPANIC PR WIRE - BUSINESS WIRE)--September 28, 2005--Fox Sports en Espanol and Fox Soccer Channel announced today they will offer live broadcasts in Spanish and English of a friendly match between a Chivas Select Team, featuring players from Mexico's Chivas de Guadalajara and Major League Soccer's Chivas USA, and Mexican First Division club Santos Laguna to benefit hurricane victims in the Gulf Coast region.

Marking the first time players from Chivas USA and sister club Chivas de Guadalajara will play together on the same team, the historic benefit match will be broadcast live Sunday, October 9, at 5 PM ET/2 PM PT from the University of California at Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium. The match also will be broadcast internationally by Fox Sports Latin America, Fox Sports World Canada and Fox Sports Middle East and Africa.

"We're immensely proud to be the exclusive television home for this very special match," said David Sternberg, executive vice president and general manager of both channels. "In addition to raising much needed funds to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast, the game promises to be an instant classic among soccer enthusiasts who have grown up with the Chivas legacy and love the excitement and passion of Mexican soccer."

The one-of-a-kind match is being presented by Chivas USA in conjunction with Santa Barbara Soccer Entertainment. Tickets, which start at just $20, are now available at select outlets in the Tri-County Area (comprising Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties), as well as through TicketMaster.

"The Chivas family is hoping to make an important contribution to the people affected by the recent natural disasters in the Gulf Coast. We look forward to helping the relief efforts as best we can, while also giving fans a chance to see their heroes of Chivas Guadalajara and Chivas USA take on a top Mexican side such as Santos Laguna in an exciting afternoon of world-class soccer," said Antonio Cue, President and Co-Owner of Chivas USA.

Club Deportivo Chivas USA, an expansion team playing its first season in MLS, is sister club to Chivas Guadalajara, Mexico's most popular soccer team. Chivas USA is coached by Dutchman Hans Westerhof and includes such Chivas Guadalajara legends as Ramon Ramirez and Juan Francisco 'Paco' Palencia, as well as promising American-based players like Antonio 'Chiva' Martinez, Orlando Perez and Santa Barbara's own Rodrigo Lopez. The club, which is co-owned by Mexican businessmen Jorge Vergara and Antonio Cue, plays its home games at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Los Angeles County, California.

Club Deportivo Guadalajara, popularly known as 'Chivas', is Mexico's most popular soccer team, with an estimated 30 million fans across Mexico and the United States. Winners of a record ten Mexican league championships and semifinalists in the 2005 Copa Toyota Libertadores transmitted exclusively on Fox Sports en Espanol, the Guadalajara-based team is coached by Spaniard Javier Azcargorta and is currently in fourth place in Group 3 of the Mexican Apertura 2005 season.

Santos Laguna, winner of two Mexican league championships and one of the Cinderella stories of the 2004 Copa Toyota Libertadores, is based in the city of Torreon in the border state of Coahuila, Mexico.
Led by former Chivas Guadalajara player and coach Eduardo 'Yayo' de la Torre, the team is currently in third place in Group 2 of the Mexican Apertura 2005 season.

Santa Barbara Soccer Entertainment, led by President, Founder and Santa Barbara native Rudy Ybarra, has been promoting international soccer matches for the past 13 years in the United States and China.

For more information on this historic benefit match between the Chivas Select Team and Santos Laguna, please call 1-877-CHIVAS-1 or visit http://www.CDCHIVASUSA.com, the official web site of Club Deportivo Chivas USA.

About Fox Sports en Espanol and Fox Soccer Channel

Fox Sports en Espanol features more than 1,500 hours of live, exclusive sports programming in Spanish and, with few exceptions, English SAP each year, including the Copa Toyota Libertadores, Copa Nissan Sudamericana and InterLiga soccer tournaments; the Major League Baseball playoffs, All-Star Game and World Series; and championship boxing from Mexico and the U.S. The channel reaches more than 7 million cable and satellite households in the U.S.

Fox Sports en Espanol is distributed by Fox Cable Networks Group and operated by Fox Pan American Sports LLC, an international sports programming and production entity jointly owned by Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and News Corporation's (NYSE:NWS) Fox Sports International.

Fox Soccer Channel is affiliated with Fox Sports International, an international sports programming and production entity housed within Fox Networks Group. Fox Networks Group, an operating unit of the Fox Entertainment Group, consists of the FOX Broadcasting Company, Fox Cable Networks, FOX Sports and Fox Networks Engineering & Operations (FNE&O).

For more information on the networks, visit Fox Soccer Channel online at foxsoccer.com and Fox Sports en Espanol at fse.yahoo.com.