In soccer, the most vulnerable times for any team are the first and the last five minutes of each half. In the beginning of each half, a team still adjusting to the pace of the match is vulnerable to an early goal by the opposing team. In the final minutes Read More…
The road to the Olympics started with a question. It was May of 1994, and brothers Pieter and Jacob Lehrer lived across the street from one another in Santa Rosa, Calif. They did everything together as children and adulthood didn’t bring a change. The brothers ran a maintenance company together. Read More…
For the Cal men’s soccer team, Tuesday’s 11:30 a.m. home match against Houston Baptist is something out of the ordinary. The upcoming tilt is a shake-up for the players, accustomed to the typical weekend afternoon match. Out of their regularly scheduled element, the Bears (2-2) are more concerned about how Read More…
When a foul just outside the penalty box was awarded to the Cal men’s soccer team in the 31st minute, the University of Central Florida players were up in arms. As some Knights argued with the referee, the entire UCF defense was in disarray, not paying attention to the free Read More…
Cal midfielder Tony Salciccia is excited to be back home in Pitbull Arena. Edwards Stadium, nicknamed Pitbull Arena by the players, gives them the extra energy and ferocity to chase down every ball like a pitbull. After three games away from Berkeley, especially after a grueling road trip to Virginia Read More…
The Cal men’s soccer team went through a painful learning experience this past weekend on the road, where the team was dominated by a pair of non-conference opponents. On Friday the Bears lost, 2-1, to Virginia before suffering a 6-0 blowout at No. 6 Maryland. Cal played like a top-25 Read More…
For the Cal men’s soccer team, the schedule is hardly challenging. Excluding the perennial Pac-12 powerhouse UCLA, the vast majority of the Bears’ opponents — mostly located on or around the West Coast — range somewhere between beatable and laughable. Read More…
For a team that had not won its past 10 games, the Cal men’s soccer team put on a spectacular display. The Bears (1-0) faced Santa Clara team on the road for their season opener and came away with a 2-1 victory last Friday at Buck Shaw Stadium. Read More…
Cal men’s soccer coach Kevin Grimes is a person that likes to keep his cards close to his chest. For the sake of safeguarding information, very few tidbits — like starting rotations or results of preseason exhibitions — are ever leaked by Grimes and his players. So when asked questions Read More…
Nearly six months after finishing its season with a 3-9-5 record, the Cal men’s soccer team flew to Italy to play the under-20 squads of Serie A clubs. Over the course of two weeks, the Bears faced five of the Italian soccer giants like AS Roma and Fiorentina. The campaign Read More…
