2024 San Jose Earthquakes 50th Anniversary Celebration

On the coaching record, ball don't lie.

I wouldn't mind if CL fired Luchi, hired himself to coach, and gave Vassili Cremanzidis the GMship. Maybe his relative success as coach would not continue but I wouldn't mind finding out. I mean he's the one coach we've had since 2008 with a winning % over 40. Given all of the challenges we've had with coaches, we can't bother to find out if that was a mirage?

 

those road blowouts on the regular weren't a mirage! maybe that's why he only coached for a few months and was promptly replaced. I don't know.

Leitch has been with the Quakes in one role or another since 2009. By soccer team standards, that's an eternity!

The fact that he has us sitting last in the league at this point...unbelievably poor from the Quakes long time veteran.

The fact that he doesn't talk to us at all just adds insult to injury.

Anyway...this is a celebration thread, don't want to piss and moan too much about the guy.

I thought Jason Hernandez was great for us.

 

The 7-1-0 record at home was not a mirage either! We have to remember that he essentially switched out the engine while the car was running, started playing several players who had been relegated to the bench, switched tactics and philosophy, and still managed to meet his goal of getting us into the playoffs and we made our deepest USOC ever -> semifinals. Instead of knickers in a bunch over bad road losses and hiring the dire Mikael Stahre we could have instead given CL a chance to add some pieces to make his preferred 3-5-2 work better (e.g. some help at winger and mobile CB), and see if we can build on the success we had in the 2nd half of 2017.

 

I know, I know, switched out the engine, car running, etc. That ship has sailed. He's not going back to coaching the Quakes now. It was a good home record, I'll give you that, unlike his record as GM.

 

Yeah, that ship has probably sailed. Best hope we have now is that he hires a coach with a similar philosophy to his own coaching philosophy. Not sure why he didn't do that in the 1st place. I think he went the safe route and so far, it hasn't worked out great for us.

 

Mani Hernandez was a great player.

I see him now and again.

One time we played his team and beat him and George Lamptey 3-1..

We felt like studs because we beat a team with two NASL players.

They did however run us to the bone.

 

Lets celebrate 50 years of subs scoring hat tricks against us.

Vasquez, Martinez and Kubo

 

If we're into the I's already, it means no Huckerby! LOL Good

 

List so far! 34 Guys so far, 32 if they're counting Gordon/Lenhart & Demlings as 1 pick! Which leaves me to believe the following guys will be picked from the modern day, other wise, it could be less depending how many more NASL guys are picked?


Manny Lagos
Eddie Lewis
Justin Morrow
Brian Mullan
Richard Mulrooney
Eddie Robinson
Ian Russell
Shea Salinas
Craig Waibel
Chris Wondolowski
Eric Wynalda
Jackson Yueill


List so far
Jeff Agoos 01-04
Jeff Baicher 96-99
Wade Barrett 98-02, 05
Bash Brothers (Gordon & Lenhart) 11-14 (AG) / 11-15 (SL)
Steven Beitashour 10-13
Victor Bernardez 12-17
George Best 80-81
Jon Busch 10-14
Laurie Calloway 74-77, 79, Head Coach 96-97
Joe Cannon 99-02, 08-10
Ronald Cerritos 97-01, 05
Paul Child 74-79
Brian Ching 03-05
Jim Conrad 99-02
Ramiro Corrales 96-97, 01-04, 08-13
Cade Cowell 19-24
Sam Cronin 10-14
Chris Dangerfield 82-85, 88
Troy Dayak 96-98, 01-05
Simon Dawkins 11-12, 16-18
Mark & Buzz Demling 74-78
Dwayne De Rosario 01-05
Landon Donovan 01-04
John Doyle 87, 96-00
Jeremy Ebobisse 21-Present
Ronnie Ekelund 01-04
Cristian Espinoza 19-Present
Gabbo Gavric 74-76
Jason Hernandez 08-14
Mani Hernandez - 74-76
Mike Hewitt 76-82
Godfrey Ingram 82-84

 

Dang. Travesty.

 

Not the top 50, but the worst guys to ever play for this team. You can add just about anyone but Wilson, Daniel, Hernan Lopez, Espinoza, Pellegrino and Akapo from this season.

@markmcf8 liked all these guys

Luciano Abecasis
Ayo Akinola
Chris Aloisi
Khodadad Azizi
Michael Baldisimo
Leandro Barrera
Ousseni Bouda
Scott Bower
Mike Burns
Altimont Butler
Francisco Calvo
Mamadi Camara
Chris Carrieri
Cordell Cato
Abdul Conteh
Tony Crescitelli
JOhn Cunliff
Tighe Dombrowski
Gabe Eastman
Eduardo
Innocent Emeghara
Justin Evans
Michael Fucito
Gilberto Fuentes
Nick Garcia
Olmes Garcia
Sam Garza
Gavin Glinton
Cornell Glenn
Henok Goitom
Luchi Gonzalez
Jan Gregus
Maxwell Griffin
Carlos Gruezzo
Daniel Guzman
Siad Haji
Atiba Harris
Matt Hatzke
Paul Holocher
Omar Jassey
Preston Judd
JAIR
Harut Karapetyan
Jovan Kirovski
J.J. Koval
Matt Luzaunaris
Walter Martinez
Joey Martinez
Ellis McLoughlin
Noah Merl
Sanna Nyassi
Jimmy Ockford
Dominic Oduro
Pablo Campos
Kevin Partida
Paulo Renato
Jean Philippe Peguro
Pablo Pintos
Caleb Porter
Joel Qwiberg
Eric Remedi
Antonio Ribero
Andy Rios
Jamil Roberts
Scott Sealy
Kofi Sarkodie
Billy Schuler
Brian Sebapole
Mark Sherrod
Adam Smarte
Davide Somma
Josh Suggs
Mohamed Thiaw
Abu Tommy
Marcos Urena
Francisco Uribe
Daniel Vega
Tim Ward
Cam Weaver
Tommy Williamson
Andrew Weber
William Yarbrough
Zico
Edmundo Zura

 

Unless they throw a swerve and put him and Ronnie O'Brien together? That would be A+. Only bright spots from 2008 + Wild Joe Cannon.

 

Mike Hewitt was a great GK.

He was the only player to have lasted during the NASL halcyon era from 1976 to 1982.

He was traded to the Montreal Manic in 1983 and I remember him in goal for them against the Quakes who won 7–1.

I recall feeling quite bad for him because he was labeled Mr. San Jose for his longevity and had only been traded a few months prior to the season.

He came to the US and signed with the Tampa Bay Rowdies who purchased him from Dundee.

He spent the season mostly as a sub with the Rowdies and was sitting on the Spartan Stadium bench when they played the inaugural Soccer 75 between Tampa and the Portland Timbers.

I don’t think he knew that he would be staying in the area at that point but stay he did and later became some kind of finance specialist when he retired in 1984.

We tried to get him to play for our amateur teams, but he never had much interest in playing after he retired from playing.

We watched the 1994 WC games together at Guido’s and was a great guy.

I believe he is now living in Phoenix but would love to see him if he comes out.

 

Newly added to the garage man cave today (from my copious reserves. ).

 

I was in WI or ID during the majority of the NASL era so I have no connection with the guys in red. That said, I do know a lot of fellows who worked for the NASL Quakes and have to say that Johnny Moore is a fine fellow and a first-rate MLS GM.

 

Another new addition to garage man cave.

 

Davie Kemp and Godfrey Ingram were great players.

Kemp marked Pele out of the game.

Ingram was a quick, dynamic English forward who was ahead of his time.

His skills were unique as far as English forwards from that time were concerned.

He actually scored the Quakes last NASL goal in a 1-0 win over the NY Cosmos in front of only 10,00 at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford New Jersey.

I'm surprised they haven't honored any of the Yugos.

Ilija Mitić , Mike Keri and Steve Zungul were exceptional players and contributed quite a lot.

Zungul was the final NASL MVP

 

The very 1st Quakes game I attended (Quakes vs Columbus in 2022) Manny Lagos was one of the 1st players to catch my attention. And it wasn't because of anything he was doing on the attack initally. It was because he kept winning challenges / contested balls one after another in midfield.