Where In The World Are Former Quakes?

That doesn't seem very accidental or incidental!

Could be self defense but California isn't some psycho stand your ground state like Florida so that would depend on the specifics, imminent threat, reasonable belief, proportionality, duty to flee/retreat... Also the article says "June 6 murder at an Almaden Valley home" but it doesn't specify whose home which could be relevant (castle doctrine).

 

Well if it's his home that certainly helps his case

 

This happened pretty close to my home... we were in Maui when it happened but there was lots of chatter about yellow tape in the area on NextDoor.

 

The mean streets of Almaden Valley. Why would anyone be surprised?

 

The homelessness has been here as long as I have... gang tagging gets closer every year (which hasn't quite moved beyond Willow Glen yet).

 

Maybe some good will come out of this tragedy and we get a Boyz in the Hood 2

 

Dave Gold owned and ran the "Go 4 Gold" soccer lessons and Soccer Camps for kids. When my daughter played youth soccer we used George Lamptey for some private training, but did have 1 or 2 sessions with Dave Gold. If I remember correctly, I think Gold provided private training for Aly Wagner, among other youth soocer players, in the early '90s.

 

Holy cow, talk about you guys burying the lede. It wasn't until I got to Jazzy's post that I realized David Gold had killed someone. I didn't know Dave Gold at all, but he was coaching youth soccer and hosting camps in Almaden around the time that TIm Hanley was coaching my son's team. Hanley always insisted that Dave Gold never played for the Quakes, as he Hanley had.

 

In the 1990’s , I recall at Spartan Field behind the stadium on 10th street, Gold had goalkeeper camps.

I heard Nick of Real SJ on the news talking and he knows Goldie pretty well because I think Dave is or was their assistant coach.

 

What a small world. George Lamptey also coached my son's team for awhile and tried to start a club in Hillsborough. His claim to fame back then was that he coached the Fair sisters to prominence. I have no idea if that was true. He was not a trustworthy guy in my experience.

 

Yeah Lamptey always bragged about the Fair sisters as he coached them in their youth days.

George is a nice guy.

I recall pickup games when playing against him and we only got the best of him a few times because he was always such a great player.

 

Speaking only of my experience with George, there was not a "trustworthy" issue, but there was a "punctuality" issue. He was often not on time (I wondered if he had his own Ghanaian time) which was irritating. Upon reflection, 35 years later, it may be that traffic problems from his home to our area were responsible, but at the time it was aggravating. As a trainer, though, I thought he was very good and his manner and personality connected very effectively with my daughter. I still have affection for him. In those days, though, there seemed to be a lot of self-promotion about experience and ability when it came to the "professional" soccer instruction community. This held for Gold, Lamptey, and others. I imagine there was a lot of competition for scarce youth soccer dollars. and thus the presentation or inflation of credentials. I think George had written a (self-published?) book about soccer training that he promoted. So the "trustworthy" issue may be rooted in that. I assume today's youth soccer scene may be the same, but just more sophisticated; my knowledge of all of this is several decades out of date now, so I don't know.

 

I was never a soccer player, so I found some of Lamptey's lessons for my daughter instructive. The one I remember best was when he was showing her some defensive one-on-one situations. He said the defender should always keep the eyes on the attacker's hips, not on the ball or head or elsewhere. If an attacker was trying to fake one way, then go another way, the ball, or head or other body parts would be part of the fake - but he wasn't going anywhere without the hips. So focusing on the position of the hips gave the best chance of not falling for a feint. For you experienced soccer players out there, this advice may be nothing special. For my daughter at the time and me as a spectator, though, it was very useful and illuminating.

 

"Boyz In Soccerman's Hood!"

 

Yeah, by the time he was coaching my son, we could not trust George to show up on time and sometimes not at all, and he would send someone else to fill in for him. Considering that people were paying to be coached by him, his biz practices led to quite a bit of dissatisfaction. Maybe he got more reliable later on, as about 10 years later I refereed a boys HS JV game where he was an asst coach.

 

Two former Quakes... NOT playing for the USMNT in this one

This was only 4 years ago but would be a great “where are they now”

Because multiple players here are playing in this U.S.-Trinidad game right now and Casey Walls is retired at 22.#usmnt #usynt https://t.co/aZQanLzih1 pic.twitter.com/nLekHoP1Cv

— Alex Calabrese (@amcalabrese12) June 15, 2025

 

I read Casey Walls joined the Phoenix Rising on Apr 28, 2025, played 2 games and then I read his current status is retired.

Not sure if he has been released or was/is injured.

 

Retired - his decision, was on the roster at the time

 

So Walls came out of retirement, played two games then retired again all in the last 6 weeks?

 

No he just retired once. Played whatever he played for Phoenix then told the coach he was hanging it up.