Bay Area Soccer News, Pictures, and Information
In a first SF City hosted an international friendly hosting Chivas reserve side CD Tapatio. While the home team opened up with the lead 1-0 the visitors ended up scoring two unanswered goals sealing the win.
The photo album is here
Next up for SF City are two home games to bookend a holiday schedule with them hosting Monterey Bay 2 on Wednesday July 3 at 7pm and Marin FC on Sunday July 7 at 2pm as part of a doubleheader with the Nighthawks with that match kicking off at 5pm.
The Quakes lose 3-0 at Stanford in Ian Russell’s debut as interim coach after the release of Luchi Gonzalez. The game was commemorated with a reunion of all the players dating back from the NASL era to the MLS tenure. Joseph Paintsil of the Galaxy opened up the scoring for the visitors with his goal in the 37th minute and the team held on to the lead for the entire match. Dejan Joveljic added to the tally in the 72nd minute, while Mauricio Cuevas put the dagger with his stoppage time goal.
The photo album is here
The Quakes will play next at St. Louis in a midweek match on Wednesday July 3 at 5:30 while the Galaxy will host crosstown rival LAFC at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena in a holiday tilt on Thursday July 4 at 7:30pm.
This past Monday the Quakes and Head Coach Luchi Gonzalez parted ways after a dismal showing to start the 2024 campaign with a 3 win 2 draw and 14 losses for the worst record in the league. While he led the team back to the playoffs last year with 10 wins 14 draws and 10 losses, the slow start to his second year beginning with three losses and their last win so far against LAFC at Levi’s Stadium it was most likely a collapse in Portland where they held to the lead, along with a four game losing streak as of June 23 that sealed his fate with the team ending his tenure as head coach. Ian Russell takes over as interim Quakes coach.
In other news Bay FC General Manager Lucy Rushton resigned from her post on the same day with the possibility that she will be returning to work on the men’s side, having worked at Reading FC in England in management. Her tenure here included assembling an expansion team from scratch in under a year. While she was able to acquire talent to begin play in a short amount of time there was the possibility of taking as of now an undisclosed job so there was no indication that her job was in jeopardy. Technical Director Matt Potter will take over as General Manager at least for the rest of the season.
Our friends at Soccer Bay Area has their take on what happened on both ends.
There was a midweek game with the Quakes and a weekend game with Bay FC.
There is the news from the Quakes, Bay FC, and Roots from our usual friends.
The Quakes lose both at home to Portland on Wednesday and away to LAFC this past weekend. The end results of those matches will be reported in the next installment.
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Once again Tess Boade provided the scoring heroics with her goal in the 33rd minute and that accounted for the only tally of the match as Bay FC defeat Angel City 1-0. Emily Menges provided the assist and also surpassed 15,000 minutes, giving her 15,054 for her career and became the ninth player in the league to surpass that mark.
Our photo album is here.
Next up for Bay FC is a road match at Louisville on Saturday June 29 at 1pm, while Angel City returns home to face Orlando on Sunday June 30 at 4:30pm.
The Quakes lose again, this time to the Timbers 2-1. Evander opened the scoring wit his goal in the 22nd minute while Paul Marie scored the equalizer at the 50th minute. Jonathan Rodriguez won the game for Portland with his game winning goal in the 72nd minute. The match was the debut for Jacob Jackson at goal for the Quakes replacing William Yarbrough.
The photo album–taken from the stands is here.
Next up for the Quakes is a road trip to Los Angeles to face LAFC on Saturday at 7:30pm while the Timbers return home to face to the Vancouver Whitecaps on the same day and time.
One match Saturday in San Jose and a hat trick Sunday–the SF Derby at San Bruno and a bit of the women to finish the day on the hill, one more before the night cap at San Jose to close.
The Roots stories are here courtesy of Soccer Bay Area and The Roots Blog
A magic night in Sacramento for Oakland Roots; Lindo Mfeka, Stacking Performance, Camden Riley, more
The Quakes and Bay FC lose at home last weekend. Kevin at Soccer Bay Area writes about what went wrong with the team after blowing a 2-1 lead, and if head coach Luchi Gonzalez can turn the team around
As league-worst Earthquakes unravel yet again, Luchi calls for a miracle turnaround
While Doug has his musings on a frustrating match with the women. The match was held to a scoreless draw until Utah scores with minutes left in the match to take the win.
What we learned: Bay FC dominate early, then lose to Utah Royals
One more women’s report with this one from the Soul. Jon at the Roots Blog tells more and the team may need to win the remaining games with some help. The last game against the Glens at the East Bay Hills may come down to a playoff spot.
Because of our coverage in San Jose we did not attend the El Farolito match–once again they could make the post season again and Mike again has the story.
The game was scoreless until the 89th minute when Kate Del Fava scored the only tally in the 89th minute. Bay FC had chances to put the ball on the net but a potential goal from Racheal Kundananji four minutes earlier was called offside. In the first match between two expansion teams it was Utah that ended up getting the victory.
Our photo album from the match is here.
Bay FC continues their homestand on Saturday June 22 at 7pm when they meet Angel City in another rivalry match, while the Royals continue their road trip to face Orlando Pride on Friday June 21 at 5pm.
The Glens women defeat the East Bay club 8-1 in a massive blowout.
The photo album is here
The Glens women continue their homestand with two games. One match will be on Wednesday June 19 against Stockton in a twilight match at 6pm and the other on Sunday June 23 as part of a double against the California Storm at 4pm after the Glens/Almaden match. The Rage return home to face the Oakland Soul in an East Bay rivalry match on Thursday June 20 at 7:30pm.
In the San Francisco Derby at Skyline College, both USL League Two teams resumed their hostilities in a major rivalry match. This time it was the club from the city limits stealing a road win at San Bruno. The Glens took the lead with a goal from Bart Muns shortly before halftime, but it was two late goals from Kiichi Murakami in the 82nd minute and a decisive penalty kick strike in stoppage time that gave City the full three points.
The photo album is here
Next up for SF City is another road game, this time to Turlock to face Academica SC on Saturday June 23 at 8pm, while the Glens continue their homestand against Almaden FC from San Jose on Sunday June 24 at 1pm.