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The Dutch Origins of San Francisco’s First Professional Soccer Team

1967 in San Francisco wasn’t just about free love and mind-expanding drugs. While the hippie movement was in its fullest flower around the intersection of Height and Ashbury streets, drawing young people from across America to the City by the Bay, a different group of young transients had made their way to San Francisco toContinue reading ” The Dutch Origins of San Francisco’s First Professional Soccer Team”

Is the Bay Area’s Soccer Infrastructure About to Enter the Modern Age?

The Bay Area is set to help host the 2026 World Cup, but Oakland and San Francisco’s professional soccer infrastructure lags far behind the San Jose area’s. Now both cities are trying to catch up while putting community first Enter the official FIFA World Cup 2026 website, and the tropes are familiar. FIFA’s description of theContinue reading “Is the Bay Area’s Soccer Infrastructure About to Enter the Modern Age?”