{"id":14713,"date":"2012-08-13T11:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=14713"},"modified":"2012-10-14T21:16:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T01:16:20","slug":"chivas-usa-gets-torched-in-shalries-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=14713","title":{"rendered":"Chivas USA Gets Torched in Shalrie’s Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Revolution captain Shalrie Joseph (far left, second row) debuted for Chivas USA on Sunday. (Photo: cdchivasusa.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

For\u00a0the newest member of the Rojiblancos<\/em>, Sunday sure didn’t bring the warmest of welcomes.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0his Chivas USA debut,\u00a0former Revolution skipper Shalrie Joseph went the full 90, but couldn’t steer his new teammates from crashing into a 4-0 SuperClasico defeat to the Galaxy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure on a day that we play better we get more out of Shalrie and out of everyone,” Chivas head coach Robin Fraser told the media after the game. “Shalrie was part of a team that did not play very well tonight and it certainly does not dictate how he played.”<\/p>\n

During his 90 minutes, Joseph collected 105 touches (second-most for the Goats to fellow ex-Revolution player James Riley, who recorded 121) and completed 88.1% of his passes (67 for 76).<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought Shalrie looked great,” Chivas USA keeper Dan Kennedy said to reporters following the game. “He is a great player. It is obvious that he has plenty to offer. Unfortunately for the team we did not give him a warm welcome tonight. We made it hard on him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Kennedy was appreciative of his newest teammate’s effort, Fraser was in no hurry to heap the praise on anyone, let alone Joseph.<\/p>\n

“I think the group did not play well,” Fraser said. “And as the group does not play well, then no one really shines.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shalrie Joseph went the full 90, but couldn’t save Chivas from a crushing 4-0 defeat to the Galaxy on Sunday.<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14713"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16156,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions\/16156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}