“Whatever the immediate cause, he was in distress and the cold water played a major factor in that. We think it might have been a case of cold-water shock syndrome.” —Eric Guevin of the Tahoe Douglas (Nevada) Fire Department on 20-year-old Matheus Silva, on loan to Reno 1868 from the San Jose Earthquakes. The Brazilian’s […]
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Matheus Silva resuscitated after being pulled from lake
Matheus Silva, a 20-year-old Brazilian on loan from the San Jose Earthquakes to the USL’s Reno 1868, received life-saving resuscitation measures after being pulled out of the water whileswimming in Lake Tahoe. UPDATE from San JoseMercury-News. Silva, whom the Quakes signed out of high school from Florida’s Montverde Academy, was transferred to a Lake Tahoe […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Red-hot Fire takes over at the top
The Chicago Fire took advantage of Toronto FC’s second loss in the last four games to take over first place in Soccer America’s MLS Power Rankings. A 4-0 rout of Vancouver coupledwith a 3-1 FC Dallas defeat of TFC moved Chicago on top, and New York City FC rose to second by downing Minnesota United, […]
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Open Cup: Quakes end drought in Leitch's debut
The San Jose Earthquakes moved into the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open Cup with a 2-1 win over the Seattle Sounders in Chris Leitch’s first game as the Quakes head coach. It was the firsttime in 11 games the Quakes defeated an MLS team in the Open Cup proper. Shea Salinas gave the Quakes […]
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Quakes' Kinnear swept out by new wave as much as poor results
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Let’s get the personal stuff out of the way first. I’ve known DominicKinnear for about three decades and while watching him play for various teams such as the minor-league San Francisco Bay Blackhawks as well as in MLS with Colorado, San Jose, and Tampa Bay, I hadthe considerable pleasure of bumping […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Busy week yields little movement
In a week of 14 league matches, the top teams prevailed and mixed results for most of the teams that played twice didn’t much reshuffle the positions in Soccer America’s MLS Power Rankings. The top four held their places by winning — collectively, they have lost only one of the last 12 games — and […]
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MLS: Quakes replace Kinnear with Leitch as head coach
Less than 24 hours after beating Real Salt Lake, 2-1, to move into fifth place in the Western Conference, the San Jose Earthquakes fired head coach Dominic Kinnear and replaced him withtechnical director Chris Leitch. Assistant coach John Spencer, who had joined the Quakes in 2017, was replaced by the Quakes’ director of methodology Alex […]
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MLS: DP Qazaishvili gives Quakes new look up front
Having beefed up its lineup with three players signed using Targeted Allocation Money (TAM) during the offseason, San Jose has dipped into the Designated Player pool to strengthen its options atforward. Valeri “Vako” Qazaishvili comes to MLS from Dutch club Vitesse, which last season loaned him to Polish club Legia Warsaw. Qazaishvili, 24, has played […]
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MLS Closeup: Sporting KC defense has dazzled so far
In the 22-season history of MLS not many teams have posted defensive marks that approach what Sporting Kansas City is doing in 2017. A 0-0 tie in San Jose Saturday dropped itsgoals-allowed per game average to 0.65 (11 goals in 17 games) and earned keeper Tim Melia his ninth shutout. If its play continues in […]
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Value of Open Cup depends on perspective
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Though the end is valuable in itself, the means of the U.S. Open Cup continues to vary wildly for itsMLS participants. It strikes me as ironic that U.S. Soccer has banned the USL teams run by MLS clubs, such as Red Bulls II and their ilk from the Galaxy, Timbers, Sounders, […]