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It’s all change for Major League Soccer’s Chivas USA

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With Chivas USA in the second week of Major League Soccer preseason training and the team traveling to Guadalajara late next week to continue preparing for the MLS season ahead, a new-look Chivas is gradually taking shape.

Here, as a sort of primer to keep up to date, is a brief rundown of the changes the team has made since the end of the 2009 MLS season:

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Coach: Preki has high-tailed it to Toronto FC and Martin Vasquez has taken over as coach.

Goalkeeper coach Leo Percovich has joined Prekiin Canada and Daniel Gonzalez is now putting the keepers through their paces.

Two assistant coaches have been added, in the shape of Carlos Juarez and Nick Theslof.

Former U.S. international defender Carlos Llamosa remains on board as an assistant coach, the only holdover from Preki’s technical staff.

On the player front, Vasquez did not invite defender Jim Curtin and midfielder Bojan Stepanovic into camp for 2010, and defender Shavar Thomas was lost to the Philadelphia Union in the MLS expansion draft.

In addition, Brazilian midfielder Paulo Nagamura has left to join UANL Tigres of the Mexican league, reportedly at a greatly improved salary.

Forward Eduardo Lillingston has been loaned to Club Tijuana of the Mexican league’s second division for the remainder of the Mexican season, or until June.

Salvadoran international midfielder Osael Romero has been signed and will join the team once his paperwork has cleared (see story at: http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-spw-chivas3-2010feb04,0,2666136.story).

More changes are in store, with a dozen or more draft picks and trialists working out with the club as it readies for its March 26 season opener against the Colorado Rapids at the Home Depot Center.

-- Grahame L. Jones

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