Chivas USA’s Jorge Flores takes another step upward

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Chivas USA forward Jorge Flores, the teenager from Anaheim who is carving out a professional career in Major League Soccer after finishing atop a 2,000-player open tryout in 2007, on Wednesday was called into the U.S. under-20 national team’s training camp in Florida.

Coach Thomas Rongen is preparing the team for the March 6-15 regional qualifying tournament in Trinidad and Tobago from which four teams will advance to the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Egypt in September.

Flores, 19, has played in a dozen games for Chivas, scoring three goals.

One other local player called into the 10-day camp in Bradenton, Fla., was UCLA goalkeeper Brian Perk of Rancho Santa Margarita.

-- Grahame L. Jones