San Jose Earthquakes Academy is on its way!

John Jussen officiated.

 

Looks like we may have our first Vietnamese American Supervisor, Betty Duong. Votes are still being tabulated but she's leading the race and poised to take over as District 2 Supervisor. She was Chavez's chief of staff so maybe she will provide some continuity by supporting and championing this proposal. Or, as someone who spent part of her childhood living in Section 8 housing, she may have other priorities for how the fairgrounds land gets used.

Betty Duong leads competitive Santa Clara County race - San José Spotlight

 

Time for a Lee Nguyen signing.

 

He's 38yo and coaching, but it might be a great time to sign a popular Vietnamese player.

 

If he still has a pulse, let's get him! He probably played for Bruce in USMNT.

BTW, while we're on the subject of "pandering", this HG kid Rohan Rajagopal looks pretty good. I think he's 16 or 17 and has had some pretty positive outings with The Town in limited minutes at the end of the season. He's a d-mid. The south bay has a significant Indian-American community. I wonder if they'd be interested in seeing an Indian-American player.

 

Let's start with pandering to our Vietnamese American neighbors. Cindy Chavez's replacement will be Vietnamese American either way. Betty Duong is in a race against Madison Nguyen, she too is a Vietnamese American, so CL...if you're listening, send our crack scouting team to Hanoi, pronto!

 

Here's the Rohan Rajagopal highlight video I was talking about. I think this might be his first start. It's all from one game. Pretty impressive. He also spoke at the county meeting on the fairgrounds project.

 

Orion Jolliff with the U-15s... what are the odds of three guys from Ceres CA making various USMNT/YNT lineups...

https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/20...al-team-roster-players-november-training-camp

U.S. UNDER-15 MEN’S YOUTH NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER – NOVEMBER TRAINING CAMP

GOALKEEPERS (3): Olumuyiwa Ajayi (New York City FC; New York, N.Y.), Connor Dale (Inter Miami CF; West Palm Beach, Fla.), Jason Nemo (Chicago Fire FC; Evanston, Ill.)

DEFENDERS (8): Jeremiah Alexander-Munoz (Charlotte FC; Concord, N.C.), Luca Antongirolami (Sporting Kansas City; Kansas City, Mo.), Orion Jolliff (San Jose Earthquakes; Ceres, Calif.), Owen Jorgensen (St. Louis City SC; St. Louis, Mo.), Brenden Leon (Portland Timbers; Gates, Ore.), Richmond Luong (Columbus Crew; North Royalton, Ohio), Finn McCraney (Chicago Fire FC; Darien, Ill.), Landon Mulvenna (Philadelphia Union; Philadelphia, Pa.)

MIDFIELDERS (7): Vinny Garcia (LA Galaxy; West Covina, Calif.), Javier Linares (Philadelphia Union; Philadelphia, Pa.), Noe Santillan (Atlanta United FC; Lawrenceville, Ga.), Nathan Tchoumba (Colorado Rapids; Aurora, Colo.), Lisandro Torres (Los Angeles FC; Long Beach, Calif.), Robert Turdean (Chicago Fire FC; Niles, Ill.), Niccolo Vafiades (New York City FC; Pelham, N.Y.)

FORWARDS (6): JD Adigun (Columbus Crew; Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ikenna Chidebe (LA Galaxy; Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Jamil Danjaji (Columbus Crew; Columbus, Ohio), Timoni Gbalajobi (Philadelphia Union; Cherry Hill, N.J.), Kane Kraus (St. Louis City SC; St. Louis, Mo.), Eric Lodge (New York Red Bulls; Valley Cottage, N.Y.)

 

Ceres, CA, soccer capitol USA.

 

50,000/335,000,000 (0.000149) vs 3/150 (0.02)


Ceres has a population of 50k, the US population is 335 million

There has been six US rosters announced (15, 16, 17, 19, 20, MNT), with about 25 players each, and there are three guys from Ceres: Orion, Chance, and Cade

(this doesn't account for a handful of players on each roster being foreign residents who are US eligible)

 

I'm actually quite surprised Ceres has 50k.

 

So sometime next year we’re going to revisit this to see the new and improved Quakes’ reworked and far more favorable (to the County) plan, and, if it’s not up to the County’s liking, Quakes have a perfectly suitable plan B where they can build an academy facility which would’ve already been built and operational by now were it not for the County dragging its feet.

So it’s going great!

 

Little birdie (not employed by the Quakes) tells me it is going to go swimmingly without Joe Simitian around.