Day ones and diehards speak on a new home for the Oakland Roots soccer club and the Soul women’s team debut.
OAKLAND — There’s only one place in this city where you can go watch salsa dancers perform, answer trivia questions posed by Jeopardy champion and longtime resident Amy Schneider, and hear drummers wearing Luchador masks pounding rhythms entire sections of bleachers chant to: an Oakland Roots game.
With the search for a new home for the team ongoing, fans who helped sell out Laney College’s football stadium this season voiced their perspectives on the first professional sports team to commit itself to Oakland since the Raiders came back from Los Angeles in 1995. In fact, some of them came to a recent game straight from the drumming sections at Athletics games and the Black Hole of a bygone Raiders era.
Jorge Bejarano held Raiders season tickets for 14 years and co-founded the Drummers at Left Field Bleachers group at A’s games. He says dozens of Roots supporters migrated directly from Athletics fandom, including members of theThese days the visual artist designs and illustrates a new character and stickers to hand out at each game on behalf of his Abstract Oakland business. Bejarano says former A’s fans like him migrated specifically “because of the threats” the A’s have made to leave Oakland.
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 3: Oakland Roots Soccer Club fans cheer during a United Soccer League game against San Antonio FC at Laney College soccer field in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. The Roots is looking for a new stadium to fit its growing fan base. Matches at Laney College average 4,300 fans a night, with a maximum capacity of 5,500 while multiple games have sold out, said Roots spokesman Tommy Hodul.
“We love supporting the team that’s local. I feel like that’s cliche but also it’s so nice to have somebody so close,” Seiwald said, adding that Laney is too small for the club now, as more than 5,090 fans roared from the college football stadium’s bleachers a few yards away. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 3: Oakland Roots goalie Paul Blanchette makes a save against San Antonio's Connor Maloney during a United Soccer League game at Laney College soccer field in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. The Roots is looking for a new stadium to fit its growing fan base. Matches at Laney College average 4,300 fans a night, with a maximum capacity of 5,500 while multiple games have sold out, said Roots spokesman Tommy Hodul.
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 3: Oakland Roots' Mikael Johnsen dribbles against the San Antonio FC during a United Soccer League game at Laney College soccer field in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. The Roots is looking for a new stadium to fit its growing fan base. Matches at Laney College average 4,300 fans a night, with a maximum capacity of 5,500 while multiple games have sold out, said Roots spokesman Tommy Hodul.
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 3: Oakland Roots' Alejandro Fuenmayor controls the ball against San Antonio's Sam Adeniran during a United Soccer League game at Laney College soccer field in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. The Roots is looking for a new stadium to fit its growing fan base. Matches at Laney College average 4,300 fans a night, with a maximum capacity of 5,500 while multiple games have sold out, said Roots spokesman Tommy Hodul.
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