Mexican businessman Jorge Vergara – the former owner of the now-defunct Major League Soccer club CD Chivas USA – died Friday in New York of a heart attack. He was 64.
Vergara was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, an expansive city in central Mexico about 200 miles inland from the country’s Pacific coast. It’s a city known well for its tequila and its soccer team, Club Deportivo Guadalajara, which has won 12 Liga MX titles and two Concacaf Champions League trophies.
Of the 26 competitions CD Guadalajara has won in its history, six arrived after Vergara purchased the club in 2002.