Quakes Academy Go Undefeated In A Massive PNW Trip

The San Jose Earthquakes academy faced their toughest test of the season as they made their annual trip up to Seattle and Portland to take on the Timbers academy followed by the Sounders academy. The boys made us proud once again going undefeated in all 4 games. The U18s beat Portland 3-0, with goals coming from Philip Hausen (2) and Zac Penner (1). Also JT Marcinkowski with a big PK save. The following day they beat Sounders 2-1, both goals coming from Yousef Diyab. All this without their best player, Amir Bashti. He is with the USYNT right now. The U16s tied Portland 0-0 and beat Seattle 1-0. This was a massive trip and really solidifies us as a top academy in the nation. Hopefully this continues, not only for the season, but for a long long time. Although it has taken awhile, the wave of homegrowns is coming and in a few years it will be a constant cycle of about 2 players a year. (knock on wood...)

For all your academy info: http://ussda.demosphere.com/teams/68797515/47187491-68797603/TEAM.html

Big Week For The Club

This has been a hectic week for me and the club. Thankfully, Dom Kinnear has come to save our team. But this doesn't only affect the first team, this affects the academy and the youth system as well. I will work hard to find out how Dom plans on improving and adjusting the academy. He will want to implement his system into our academy and that will be fascinating to follow (more to come). In the mean time, Quakes academy alums Bryce Clark and Josh Morton have been doing some great things. Josh who has been recovering from an ankle injury has returned and played in 2 big games for Cal recently. The first being a HUGE win vs #2 UCLA and secondly another big win vs another Pac12 opponent, SDSU. You can see the young center-back (#21) in Palo Alto as Cal takes on Stanford on Monday at 7pm. Now for our other promising freshman defender, Bryce Clark. Clark as been starting every game for SMU as they have won 7 of their last 8 games, helping them raise their ranking to 21st in the country. He also scored his first ever college goal in OT to win the game for SMU! Congrats Bryce!

Video of the Golazo 

Quakes Academy Weekend Round-Up

Quakes Academy Weekend Round-Up

As usual, the Little Gonnies are making us proud (And helping ease the pain of the first team) with a #CleanSweep of the Santa Cruz Breakers this weekend, away at Cabrillo College in Aptos. Another goal for young Ivan Valencia (15) for the U18s. He and top prospect Amir Bashti are really paring up well in Marquis White's 4-2-3-1. If Ivan can keep up this type of play, he can be the next Tommy Thompson. U18s and 14s still undefeated. U16s have lost just 1 game.

Scores:

U18s: 2-1

U16s: 8-0

U14s: 2-1

No games scheduled this coming weekend.
For all your academy news: Academy Website

College Soccer (Quakes Academy Alumni) 10/2/14

College Soccer (Quakes Academy Alumni)

Kendall McIntosh: After only allowing 1 goal in 5 games, SCU got romped by Cal 4-0 loss. Still a bunch of saves from Kendall including this gem. http://thew.tv/videos/top-play-tuesday-september-30-2014

Josh Morton: Injured, missed the game vs SCU.

Bryce Clark: SMU got the 4-2 win on Friday and a 2-0 shutout on Wednesday. Clark with the assist in the second game. He's really become more of a well rounded player and is starting to standout more. I'm extremely impressed with him and fully expect for him to become a homegrown player for us, especially because he's a RB and we have no prospects in that position. 

Jimmy Callinan: Started and got the 3-0 shutout vs Gonzaga, also got an assist for Stanford.

Christian de Luna: Saw him in person for the first time vs UC Davis. He and Quakes PDL player Josh Smith got the 110 minute shutout and got a 3-0 shutout vs SJSU. Super solid. We don't have any LB prospects and although he plays CB, he can play LB and that's his best chance at signing homegrown.

It's funny how all of our top prospects are defenders. It's kinda good because we have zero defensive prospects on the first team right now..