I never played on the bowl until mid 80's but the park was a shit hole to play on and then they found the park needed to be the subject of a clean up in the 90's so I'm betting the park rather than the bowl.
When Umberto Ambonzino formed the Peninsula Soccer League in the late 1950's, my uncles stated most of the games were played at the Rose Garden , at SJSU (Spartan Field) and up at Stanford. They stopped playing and lost touch with the game from the mid 1960's until the Quakes started playing in 1974. Supposedly, many of the original Earthquakes played amateur ball with the San Jose Lobos during the NASL offseason but I'm not sure where they played at. I recall as far back as 1979-80 and most of the games were played at Watson Bowl and Park. Here is a picture of the Portuguese Athletic Club (or PAC) soccer team in 1972. This to me looks like Buck Shaw Stadium at SCU.
@DotMPP This picture of the Portuguese Athletic Club (or PAC) soccer team in 1972 is at Municipal Stadium.
From Facebook… English Football in the 1930's/40's/50's Stamford Bridge, 62/63 Stanley Matthews, Eric Skeels & Tony Allen
Sir Stanley Matthews was born on February 1st 1915 and died on February 23rd 2000. During the 1962-63 season , he was 47. From wiki , here is a picture of Matthews lifting his 1953 FA Cup final winner's medal to the sky, so that his deceased father could see it. He was 38 at the time....
How about Stanford! Stanford’s ‘Hail Mary’ college soccer goal needs to be seen to be believed Hghlights: Stanford Men's Soccer vs. Notre Dame | ACC Tournament Stanford vs Notre Dame - Men's Soccer - 11/6/2024 - Box Score 'Unreal!' Stanford scores from beyond midfield to win in final seconds
Although the goal was a pretty obvious mistake, as Marco Tardelli , the great World Cup wining Italian defensive midfielder once said, “90% of goals are caused by a goalkeeper or a defender’s blunder”.
Of course it’s usually some combination of attacker skill and defense error but I think there’s some truth to that in a very broad stroke kind of way.
LAFC sells some kid I've never heard of to Bayern Munich BREAKING: Bayern Munich have signed USYNT forward Bajung Darboe from LAFC, per sources.Bayern will pay a fee of $1.5m.Darboe, 18, previously trained with Bayern in 2022. Made 14 MLSNP apps with LAFC 2.Details: https://t.co/NDSb2MRWrk pic.twitter.com/njD8xBQSVt— Tom Bogert (@tombogert) November 8, 2024
You'd have heard of him if you watch Next/Pro games. I guess when you have a good team, your Next/Pro guys can net you decent transfer $ while at the same time not being good enough to break into your 1st team.
I do watch some MLSNP games but only Philly (Cavan Sullivan), Columbus (my best friend's cousin) and the Town (duh)
He flubbed a save that he had in his hands and knocked it into the goal. It was nothing like that Stanford shot.
Well The Town plays LAFC 2 a few times a year. That’s when I saw him play. The announcer usually fawns all over him so hard to miss. Otherwise I don’t pay that much attention to other teams’ players.
That field is not that well-lit, and that CB kicked the ball pretty high in the air. Hubby pointed out that the GK probably lost sight of it, so I think it’s a tad unfair to call that bad goalkeeping. He probably couldn’t even really see the ball come down.