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Landon Donovan and his San Diego Loyal Football Club left a resounding and colorful mark in San Diego during the second season of USL.
One year after their first season ended in controversy, Donovan coached the Loyalty to a place in the USL playoffs. His favorite is to host a home game in front of the team's loyal fans.
In order to return to the comfortable 6,000-seat Torrero Stadium at the University of San Diego this year, the Loyalty needs to win the Sacramento regular season finals on Saturday night and lose Orange County to the Los Angeles Galaxy II.
Donovan is one of the greatest American football players of all time. He played with the U.S. National Team and Major League Soccer. For most of their first season, loyal fans were in the open field. The importance of returning the fans before the game cannot be overemphasized. Pandemic.
Although the Loyalty lost 4-3 to Oakland in Sunday's home final, Donovan pointed to the support his team received at home.
Donovan pointed to the team’s bench and said: "What I have always said to this stadium is that, in terms of sight, close to the game, especially here, I have never sat in a stadium better than those seats. Seats." "You are really standing, and they are within four feet of you.
"When this place is as loud as the last, it's hard to imagine that everyone will have a louder place. It's really fun to participate in this situation."
Fans in the East End, including members of The Locals, an independent supporter group, chanted and beat drums throughout the 45 minutes of each half. They detonated smoke bombs in green and orange team colors to celebrate the goal.
This is not just football. The main supporter of the team, Stone Brewing, has a large Black Lives Matter logo next to the advertisement. Many rainbow flags fluttered in the breeze.
The number of spectators on Sunday was 4,982. "The sound here is much louder," said forward Corey Hertzog, who used to play for Reno at USL. He called San Diego fans "the best USL fans." It sounds like ten thousand. "
Before he helped co-found Loyal, Donovan was involved in a group promoting Football City, which will be a large-scale development of Mission Valley, with the goal of bringing an MLS team to this place and being charged by the NFL in 2017 Abandoned city. Although SoccerCity lost to San Diego State University in the right to redevelop large tracts of land, Donovan began to understand the city's football fans.
"I have established a real connection with a lot of fans, because in the two years in the football city, we went out to talk and meet people every weekend, so almost every face I saw in the stands was in a certain I have seen and interacted with some of them many times," said 39-year-old Donovan, who has lived in San Diego for 6 years.
“I think I’m one of them because we’re all working hard to do this together, which makes it very special. Every time we win, when I see them in the stadium and make eye contact with them, it’s us. Another step forward together."
Another sign of increasing loyalty is that Donovan wore three scarves while coaching.
"There are three supporter groups, so I messed up next summer. I will have to wear these three vests," he joked.
San Diego’s first season came to an abrupt end in September 2020, when the team led the Phoenix Rise 3-1. After the openly gay midfielder Colin Martin was called gay slander by young Flemings, the team Go off the court. If Loyal keeps going and wins, they are likely to enter the playoffs.
A week ago, Loyal asked to abandon their 1-1 draw at the Los Angeles Galaxy II in protest against San Diego's Elijah Martin who was allegedly called racial slander by defender Omar Ontiveros in the 71st minute.
Earlier that season, Loyal wore rainbow-colored armbands to commemorate the Pride Weekend in San Diego, and when they returned from the four-month COVID-19 closure, they wore a spare kit with Black Lives Matter.
"We are kind of getting it, not categorizing it, but you kind of being seen as a social justice team or club, but in reality, our players just want to play football," Donovan said. "They don't want to be insulted in the game, they just want to play. So the fact that they can participate in the game this year and show that we are a good team is worth it for them. Very so."
Donovan said that the loyal is a position "for humanity". We always say that we are people first and players second. It's really easy to say, it's a good slogan, many teams are doing this, but we are working hard to do it every day. "
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