The wait is finally over! The 2025 USL Championship season begins next Saturday and what better than at home! Sac Republic's rival is New Mexico United, and we talk about the game. We also talk about the new USL jersey font and our season/game predictions for the 2025 Edition of Podcast Winner Dinner competition (Luis won the 2024 & 2022 Season, and Sharon won the 2023, who will win in 2025?)

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On today's episode we talk about last Saturday's Sacramento Republic pre-season game vs Ventura County (the former Los Dos) of MLS Next Pro, Luke who formerly played for the Republic Academy and is now playing with the Earthquakes Academy talks about his time with the Academy, Tower Bridge Battalion membership, and more!

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It's almost been a month since our last podcast episode, but we're back (sorry for the wait)! And we have a lot to talk about. Sharon lets us know how the new Sac Republic jersey reveal event went, our thoughts on the new jersey (away jersey will be the same as last season), a few couple of SRFC players were signed during this time, a new possible USL "Premier" League?, and more!

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The first podcast episode of 2025 is here! (Sorry for the wait!) And we have a lot to talk about! The 2025 Sacramento Republic schedule has been announced (there'll be more games with the introduction of a new cup between USL Championship & USL League One Clubs), we have new players arriving in Sacramento, Sharon talks to us about the events for SRFC members, and more news!

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Happy Holidays Sac Soccer Fans! The news we've been waiting for has finally been announced! The new head coach for Sacramento Republic is Neill Collins! He spent years with the Tampa Bay Rowdies as a player and then his first years as coach! Joining us on this podcast to tell us more about him is James Knowles from RBLR Sports in Tampa, who regularly covers the latest Tampa Bay Rowdies news!

Welcome to Sac Republic, Neill!

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Last week we experienced good news in an unanimous city council vote for the future of the Republic Railyards Stadium & bad news in one of our Central Valley Soccer team's parting ways with USL League One. The SOTR team talks about both of these events that happened on the same week.

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Another bonus episode! The SOTR team talks about the great news we found out about last Thursday with Sac Republic getting new team ownership, the Wilton Rancheria Tribe (who also own Sky River Casino in Elk Grove), and updates on our Railyards Stadium in downtown Sacramento!

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Our 2024 USL playoffs started and ended at Las Vegas with a dramatic penalty kick shootout! The SOTR team talks about Sharon's trip to see the game vs Lights, the 0-0 and then PK loss, the USL conference semi-final playoffs, and more!

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