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Local Reporters Getting Ready
By: David |Local soccer clubs and community newspapers across the country are gearing up for Sunday’s FC Gold Pride premiere with some crack reporting and celebrating.
Speaking of Kimberly Yokers … let’s start with the collegiate captain at Cal, who most recently has been a trainer at Sutton Soccer in Alameda. The training facility celebrated Yokers’ new [...]
Stanford-Cal Rivalry Heats Up?
By: David |No, were’ not talking about how the Cal Bears got tossed from the NCAA Tournament last night while the Stanford Cardinal plays on – in the Bears’ Haas Pavilion no less!
No, we’ve got ourselves a little cross-bay controversy brewing right here on the The Offside FC Gold Pride blog! It’s East Bay versus South [...]
Marisa Abegg Back in the Pride
By: David |Marisa Abegg is back in the fold. Or on the Pride, or whatever …
FC Gold Pride announced its Opening Day roster yesterday, and right there on the top of the list (in alphabetical order) is Marisa Abegg. Astute readers will recall that this here blog reported that she’d been cut from the team on [...]
Game Times for Your Calendar; Got Your Season Tix?
By: David |It’s entirely possible that I am johnny-come-lately on this one, but the team’s official website now has game times listed for many of the games that had earlier been Time TBD (most of the non-TV games were listed without times in the originally released schedule).
To be honest, I only noticed the times because I got [...]
FCGP Cuts Four Five; Adds a Mascot
By: David | In the wake of the celebratory party for Brandi Chastain and Tiffeny Milbrett, comes the bad news for other players cut by the FC Gold Pride this week:
FC Gold Pride Head Coach Albertin Montoya made some roster moves on Sunday afternoon, reducing the roster size in preparation for the season. FC Gold Pride waived [...]
Chastain, Milbrett Make Opening Roster
By: David |The news first leaked via Twitter — sort of — and the SJ Mercury news has confirmed that both Brandi Chastain and Tiffeny Milbrett have made the team for the Opening Day roster. Although for the moment, that’s all we know. Neither the Merc nor the team have released the complete roster online. That [...]
Will @fcGoldPride Twitter Tonight?
By: David |Will FC Gold Pride players and staff be updating their Twitter accounts live while the team plays the Bay Area Select All-Stars tonight in San Francisco? Frankly, I have no idea.
Various news outlets have reported that WPS players will be allowed — nay, encouraged — to update Twitter accounts during the inaugural match next weekend. [...]
Sinclair Dreams of Canadian WPS Teams
By: David |Not so fast, you Brazilians …
The fifth international on the FC Gold Pride comes all the way from Canada (via Los Angeles), and recently Christine Sinclair called the arrival of WPS “absolutely huge” for the development of the sport.
“I think this league needs to survive just so young players out there in college, and [...]
Brazilian Cavalry Arrives This Week
By: David |Word from FC Gold Pride management is that the cavalry is arriving this week, just in time for the start of the regular season in just over two weeks.
Formiga is already on U.S soil – er, grass? – and Adriane and Erika are set to arrive tomorrow. Marta — who didn’t appear in either [...]
Pride now 0-2 versus Sol, Both by 2-0
By: David |Two preseason games in Southern California over the past few days have not been kind to the apparently already road-weary FC Gold Pride, who lost both matches by identical 2-0 scores.
Minimal details were released for Saturday’s result, but the starting eleven were Meagan McCray, Marissa Abegg, Carrie Dew, Lindsay Massengale, Eriko Arakawa, Tiffeny [...]






