Wynalda returns to the field
By Jay Hipps · May 5, 2008
Mention the name “Eric Wynalda” to American soccer fans and you’re likely to get a mixed reaction. His polarizing personality tends to evoke diametrically opposed reactions: people either love him or hate him. So, we’ll let you draw your own conclusions to the news that the 38-year-old former San Jose Clash star has returned to the field with the PDL’s Bakersfield Brigade. After passing a physical Thursday, he saw action in a pair of games this weekend.
We don’t know if he’s going to travel for away games, but if he does it could make for an interesting weekend when the Brigade travels north to face the San Francisco Seals (July 18) and San Jose Frogs (July 19). Maybe former Clash coach Laurie Calloway can take a page from Waldo’s book and hire a plane to fly over the stadium, trailing a banner that says, “Fire Wynalda.”
In other news, our own Embele Awipi recaps Saturday night’s match in his weekly column for the Salinas Californian.
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I rember a few years ago Calloway ran a restaurant here in Capitola and I ran into him in the local grocery store and mentioned ‘his friend’ had just signed to play somewhere, and his exact quote. “well, that is a waste of space!’
[…] Eric Wynalda is playing again for the Bakersfield Brigade. A few of us have already made plans to attend some, if not all, of the SF Seals home games. Now […]