San Jose Earthquakes are a well-established San Jose soccer team that play in Major League Soccer, and are nicknamed The Boys in Blue, Quakes and Los Terremotos de San Jose. The Quakes are ranked among the ten MLS charter members that participated in the league’s earliest season held in 1996, while also competing in the first MLS game where they won from D.C. United with a perfect 1-0 score. After the MLS season of 2005, the team was officially under hiatus, so that the players, coaching staff and head coach Dominic Kinnear were relocated to Houston, where they were renamed the Houston Dynamos. After being non-existent for two years, the Quakes were finally brought back to compete in the 2008 season. The remarkable team has won MLS Cup titles twice, in 2003 and 2001, alongside an impressive MLS Supporters’ Shield of 2005.The team participated in its first ever CONCACAF Champions Cup, entering the quarterfinals. Currently, the Quakes play their home games in Santa Clara at the Buck Shaw Stadium, under their coaching head Frank Yallop, the later Ipswich Town and Canadian International player.
San Jose Earthquakes team was formed in 1974, following the award of expansion franchise to San Jose by North American Soccer League, who simply called the franchise the Earthquakes. After 1984, the NASL wrapped up so that the team joined Western Soccer League and remained there till 1988, at the end of which it was sold. The same year, WSL gave a franchise to real estate lawyer, Dan Van Voorhis, who named the new team Blackhawks. The team then participated in the 1989 WSL season. In 1991, Laurie Calloway, a former Earthquakes player, was hired as the team’s coach. The team was later taken out of successor league of the WSL, and made it join the APSL instead, where it came to be known as the San Jose Hawks. The team and its title went through several phases of development and change until 1999, when it was officially renamed the Earthquakes again.
Currently, San Jose Earthquakes play their home games at the Buck Shaw Stadium that has a seating capacity of just over ten thousand. The team owners are looking into relocating the team’s home station to a bigger arena for which, they are finally focusing on an area close to the International Airport of San Jose, which can hold an audience of at least twenty-two thousand. The new arena is designed according to the European style stadium architecture with three sides that have a grass berm on the open side. This plan is expected to make San Jose Earthquakes tickets more easily available and popular owing to the resizing and construction design of the venue.
Some of the best noted former players of San Jose Earthquakes are Landon Donovan, Brian Mullan, Travis Mulraine, Michael Emenalo, Curt Onalfo, Wade Barrett and Jeff Agoos. Get hold of those San Jose Earthquakes tickets and cheer the unstoppable team players while they kick, throw and makes goals.
