ANTONIO CUÉ
President and Co-Owner
Club Deportivo Chivas USA
Antonio Cué Sànchez-Navarro is president and co-owner (alongside partner Jorge Vergara Madrigal) of Club Deportivo Chivas USA, the Los Angeles, California-based sister team of Club Deportivo Guadalajara, Mexico’s most beloved soccer club. Chivas USA, a truly visionary business venture of bicultural, bi-national and bilingual proportions, brings one of Mexico’s most powerful brands to the world of professional sports in the United States.
Based in Los Angeles, Cué oversees all aspects of Chivas USA’s business. A key investor-operator within Major League Soccer, he has also taken a leading role in MLS/SUM’s strategic alliances with Club Deportivo Guadalajara and the Federación Mexicana de Futbol, while attracting capital investment in MLS by several of Mexico’s leading corporations. Since his arrival in Southern California to set up Chivas USA in 2004 (“with nothing but my cell phone,” as he recalls), the club has grown remarkably, playing its first season in Major League Soccer in 2005, growing to more than 100 employees, setting the all-time standard for corporate sponsorship of an MLS team in 2005, and providing sporting and educational opportunities to thousands of young people through such initiatives as the Chivas USA Futbol Academies and the Fundación Chivas de Corazón USA, the team’s own 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
Cué credits his sense of vision in great part to the fact that he hails from a renowned entrepreneurial family. Cué’s grandfather, the late Juan Sánchez-Navarro, one of Mexico’s most recognized and respected businessmen, was a founding partner and vice president of Grupo Modelo, the holding company that counts Corona Beer amongst its assets. It is fitting that today two of Mexico’s most powerful brands – Corona and Chivas – are products of this business dynasty.
Prior to founding Chivas USA, Cué was a founding partner of BCBA Impulse (Barrios, Cué, Belausteguigoitia, Aramburuzabala), today one of the leading private real estate companies in Mexico, specializing in residential and office projects across the country. He continues to sit on the board of several of Mexico’s leading corporations, including the venture capital firm Capital Integral, as well as Promotora ABC, Inmobiliaria Reforma, Metros Cubicos, Kio Networks, Grupo Ildomani and Grupo TMM.
With an avid passion for all sports, Cué has a special interest in soccer and the ways in which the sport can foster a sense of community and provide opportunities for children, while playing an integral part in the education process and bridging gaps between groups and cultures.
Cué currently resides in Bel Air California, with his wife Carla and their two sons, Antonio Jr. and Emilio.
We salute Antonio Cué and Club Deportivo Chivas USA for being such generous and important parts of the Para Los Niños family!
Fast Facts
In 2007, over 583,000 people in Los Angeles County lived in extreme poverty
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87% of children of immigrant families in Los Angeles County are U.S. citizens
