Sacramento Republic FC: former partners, future rivals

Phillips killed us. We can talk about the 2 late goals we gave up but I don’t think we’d have lost that game if they didn’t have him in their lineup.

 

And, oddly, even though he is owned by Huddersfield, he last played for them in 2020, with zero goals in 10 games. Since then he has been sent out on loan to various teams in League 1 & 2 of the EFL, Walsall, Exeter City, Morecambe, Shrewsbury Town, and now recently to the Sacramento Republic.

 

I knew the Quakes were never close to qualifying for the Open Cup Finals.

Concacaf Champions League, give me a break.

 

Remember when the mayor of San Jose was this involved in the state of our team - at least to keep the team from moving? Yeah I don’t either.

 

Several mayors ago. Current SJ mayor attends Quakes games with his family.

 

Yeah, I was thinking about the time of our relocation.

 

Licardo seemed pretty Quakes friendly, too...

 

And Chuck Reed, maybe (Don would know)?

 

Back in 2006, when Liccardo first ran for City Council and San Jose was without an MLS team, he met with me for lunch at a downtown Thai restaurant (since gone) to seek my support as a neighborhood association leader. I told him I had two constituencies — my neighbors and fellow Quakes fans, and if he wouldn’t support bringing the Quakes back, I couldn’t support him.


Ultras section. Quakes v West Brom, circa 2013 at Buck Shaw. Liccardo came late and missed Bingham’s goal.

 

During the 2006 mayoral campaign between Reed and Cindy Chavez, they held a downtown debate. SSV packed the room with Quakes fans in blue kits — more than half the attendees. We had one issue: bring back the Quakes. It made an impression.

Years later, as San Jose’s mayor, Reed exchanged dignitary gifts with the mayor of Barcelona, Spain, who was in town for something. Reed got a signed Lionel Messi Barca kit but he couldn’t keep it under City gift rules. So he called me (a soccer fan he knew) and asked if I could auction it for charity, which SSV did at its next annual dinner.

 

And current SJ mayor Matt Mahan and Cindy Chavez, who faced off in a tough, close 2-way run-off in 2022, both showed up to the training center announcement event and made nice in support of the Quakes.

 

Probably not good to fight your customers. I guess I'd rather have largely apathic than that.

 

Christ almighty, this really is deader than the deadest dead, times infinity.

 

Sac Republic parting ways with coach Briggs, i know he wasn't mentioned as one of the candidates but he is available now .

 

Just saw it and posted it in the other teams thread......

 

Ohhhhhh snap…… is it happening finally?

 

It looks like it will be a 12,000 seat stadium, so apparently just USL aspirations now. And I doubt Wilton Rancheria could afford MLS.

 

Hard to understand how a tribal casino built in 2022 already has enough tribal wealth to buy a 2nd division sports team. The Miwok tribe has 800 members and only formed officially (at the level to have property rights) in 2017 (I think that’s what I read). Seems a little fishy to me…

 

As you said it's a 2nd division team, gambling is big money and they're using "equity" money not duffel bags of cash.