Local Reporters Getting Ready

By: David | March 31st, 2009

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 professional soccer career in a recent email to participants:

Did you know that Sutton Soccer’s very own trainer Kim Yokers not only tried out for the new Women’s Professional Soccer league, but due to her skills and hard work she made the roster for our local team the FC Gold Pride? We are so proud of her and her terrific accomplishment. We think her time at Sutton Soccer made a difference in why she is on the team. All those terrific touches on the ball every week had to help.

Since you have trained at our facility you have probably met Kim and know what a terrific person she is to have training your soccer players. BUT most of you have never seen her play. She is so tough and skilled on the pitch.

And the FC Gold Pride agree! So we are letting everyone of our fans know that this Sunday April 5th is opening day for the FC Gold Pride. They open their season at Buck Shaw stadium in Santa Clara ( a terrific soccer venue as you are close to the action) against the Boston Breakers at 3pm.

We hope you will come out and cheer on the new women’s pro soccer team and give a shout out to our very own Kim Yokers as she dons her team kit for this opening day.

Go Kim and go FC Gold Pride!

And a little further away – like Idaho! – folks are also celebrating the ascension of Lindsay Massengale to the professional soccer ranks. The well-known Idaho State Journal reports that Lindsay Massengale isn’t moving back to Idaho anytime soon:

When Idaho State soccer coach Allison Gibson helped her assistant Lindsay Massengale load up her truck before heading out to California’s Bay Area for a Women’s Professional Soccer preseason camp, Gibson noticed Massengale appeared to be packing for a permanent move.

“‘I’m not coming back,’” Gibson recalled Massengale saying. “‘I love the team, but I’m making it.’”

The former all-ACC player at Clemson University lived up to that promise.

She earned a spot with the first-year league’s FC Gold Pride, which will play their home games at Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.

There’s also a cute story on the University’s Athletics webpage touting Massengale’s addition to the “highly acclaimed” FC Gold Pride. Apparently it doesn’t take much to earn some acclaim in Idaho.