{"id":17637,"date":"2013-01-15T17:49:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=17637"},"modified":"2013-01-15T17:53:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:53:04","slug":"mls-combine-bekker-strikes-again-chivas-usa-eyes-alvarez-at-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=17637","title":{"rendered":"MLS Combine: Bekker Strikes Again, Chivas USA Eyes Alvarez at #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"cf7b415oi\" width=\"455\" height=\"349\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" name=\"cf7b415on\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/p.mlssoccer.com\/SAu5a\/video\/1326596\/1326596_2013-01-15-165636.640hq.mp4\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Boston College&#8217;s Kyle Bekker scored for the second straight game in MLS Combine action on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>After his\u00a0adiZero squad fell into a two-goal hole to PRIME, Bekker drilled a 25-yard free kick that found the back of the net at the 43rd minute.\u00a0adiZero\u00a0earned a 2-2 draw in the end.<\/p>\n<p>The second match of the day, and final match of the Combine, pitted adiPure against adiPower, with the former earning three points in\u00a0a 2-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, new Chivas USA manager Jose\u00a0Luis Sanchez Sola <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/superdraft\/2013\/news\/article\/2013\/01\/14\/chivas-usa-manager-reveals-name-no-2-superdraft-pick\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">told mlssoccer.com on Monday<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> that he&#8217;ll select Connecticut forward Carlos Alvarez with the second overall pick at SuperDraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy, because he wants me,\u201d Alvarez told mlssoccer.com after hearing the news. \u201cLike I told you before, I would wear that jersey with pleasure, so if Chel\u00eds needs me I\u2019m at his orders, and if any other team selects me I\u2019m also at theirs. But I\u2019m very happy with everything he said about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Should the Goats follow through and select Alvarez, it would be a bona fide homecoming for the UConn star, who\u00a0grew up\u00a0in Los Angeles. Not only that, but Alvarez&#8217;s father played for the Chivas Guadalajara.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy teammates have told me \u2018You\u2019re a Chiva now,\u2019 and I tell them that\u2019s the word out there but I still have to wait until Thursday,\u201d Alvarez said. \u201cYou never know what might happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC prospect Kyle Bekker scored on Tuesday while UConn&#8217;s Carlos Alvarez appears set to join Chivas USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1284,200,201,49,199,202,192,1289],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17637"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17646,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637\/revisions\/17646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}