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March 22, 2008
Seattle paper previews season for Quakes; Quakes gear to arrive Monday?
As the Quakes look to wrap up play tonight in the Carolina Challenge Cup (5:15 p.m. on USLLive.com), the Seattle Post-Intelligencer checks in with their San Jose Earthquakes season preview. Reporter Pat Martin speaks with Coach Frank Yallop and defender Nick Garcia in evaluating the team's chances for success in 2008.
"I think there is pressure on all of us because we want to start the season off well and make the playoffs like every other team in this league," said Yallop... "We don't want to just sit here and settle for second best. We are trying to prepare the team to win every match we play."
Ah! That's the Earthquakes attitude we've been missing for two seasons. Anyway, despite the reporter's repeated misspelling of Ryan Cochrane's last name in the story, it's a good read.
We have two other stories to pass along today. First, MLSnet.com's Steve Davis looks at San Jose's midfield in his "Five-a-side" column. (Someone needs to tell him that Ramiro Corrales spent plenty of time in central midfield during his previous tenure with the Quakes. It's not really much of an experiment playing him there now.) Also, the Pocono Record includes a quote from Frank Yallop in their article on soccer tennis.
Finally, we hear that the Soccer Pro stores in San Jose, Dublin, Pleasant Hill and Modesto expect to receive their first shipment of home and away replica Earthquakes jerseys sometime on Monday. Tell them the blog sent you...
Posted by Jay at March 22, 2008 12:09 PM
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The question is, who is going to do the authentic customization?
Posted by: RD 84 at March 23, 2008 07:10 PM
Just stopped by Soccer Pro Dublin. They have the black home replica jersey and both home/away authentic shorts. More apparel including authentic home/away jerseys coming in all week long. Same goes for the San Jose Soccer Pro location. I didn't get a chance to ask about customization but I'm pretty sure they can get access to the MLS numbers/names from the supplier in SoCal.
Posted by: JNS at March 24, 2008 01:34 PM
Just found out from Soccer Pro that only the authentic jerseys will have the 2 championship stars above the crest. The replicas won't have the championship stars.
Posted by: JNS at March 25, 2008 11:39 AM