Hella Football

Anders Perez is co-founder and president of Bay Cities FC. He tells us about what this new club stands for and much, much more. The Redwood City-based team kick off their first league season in the NI...

22 Jan 202253min

2021 was a journey for Oakland Roots. The club's first year in the USL Championship was action packed. It started off terrible but they turned it around and clinched a playoff spot in the last game of...

24 Dec 202136min

2021 went from the ridiculous to the almost sublime for the Oakland Roots. After 1 win in their first 12 games, after another team's protests about the state of the field at Laney Stadium almost kille...

24 Dec 202130min

The mission was simple. For Oakland Roots to reach the playoffs they had to beat Sporting Kansas City II and hope that LA Galaxy II lost or drew against San Diego Loyal. At the start of the season th...

3 Nov 202111min

Oakland Roots don't do things the easy way. Up 3-1 with 20 minutes to go in a must win game, everything looked golden. But a goal and then a last minute equalizer followed by a red card left them star...

1 Nov 202119min

Oakland Roots had a score to settle with the Sacramento Republic. At stake was the title of the USL's number one Northern California soccer club and a little bit more. This was about more than just br...

26 Okt 202145min

What could go wrong, did go wrong for the Oakland Roots in their 2-2 draw with the Las Vegas Lights. They conceded a goal within 5 minutes, missed a penalty, then went 2-1 up against ten men before co...

18 Okt 202129min

Oakland Roots and the San Diego Loyal went head-to-head in a thrillingly entertaining goalless draw. Some 0-0's are boring, this one was anything but. Keeper Paul Blanchette kept the Roots in it with ...

12 Okt 202141min