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December 09, 2007
Dayak's Dynamite, Yanks overseas
One of the things we like best about the Quakes is the way that the team benefits such a broad spectrum of the soccer community. While the team that competes on the field will always get the most headlines, people associated with the Quakes over the years are active throughout Northern California.
Case in point is Troy Dayak, who we learn today is having great success with a U-12 girls team in Tracy, thanks to an article in the Tracy Press. Dayak is coaching the Tracy United Dynamite, who are now ranked fourth in the state.
The story adds:
The 12-and-under Dynamite have dominated opponents this year under Dayak and have even held their own in tournaments in older age brackets, taking third in a tourney in Davis for 13-and-unders.
The story also features a photo of Coach Dayak in action. Good stuff.
If you've been wondering like we have who the rest of the players will be for the 2008 Quakes, Ives Galarcep of ESPN takes a look at some of the Americans playing abroad who might be interested in a return to the States.
In the article, he pairs MLS teams with potentially returning Yanks. He suggests that San Jose would do well with Berkeley native Kamani Hill, who will be looking to transfer out of Wolfsburg in January, but then adds that Hill seems to want to stay in Germany, anyway. His pick for the Quakes is Eddie Lewis, whose career has run onto the rocks at woeful Derby County, a team that is mired in a 10-game winless streak and currently resides at the bottom of the English Premier League table.
Galarcep's recommendations aside, what we really like about the article was the information on the young Americans who might be looking to come home, a list that includes Gold Cup hero Benny Feilhaber, who is also stuck at Derby County, and forward Charlie Davies, who won his first cap with the U.S. at last summer's USA/China match at Spartan Stadium.
Posted by Jay at December 9, 2007 07:19 AM