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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Earlier today we received the news of our Coach Mark Briggs and Sac Republic deciding to part ways so we decided to do a short bonus episode for everyone to talk about it. He was without a doubt, one of the best Republic coaches we've had with a highly notable achievement of taking us to our first-ever US Open Cup Final in 2022! We wish you the best of luck Mark! Thank you for everything you did for the team and our fans!

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Last Saturday we missed hosting the first playoff game because of one goal, but qualified to the USL Playoffs (unlike Uncle Ruckus!) and our first stop is in Vegas! The SOTR team talks about the fan appreciation match vs Colorado, our upcoming rival Las Vegas, the USL Playoff bracket, and more!

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A tie is all we needed (and still do!) last Saturday to guarantee home field advantage in the first round of USL Playoffs, and unfortunately we didn't get it. The SOTR team talks about the 2-1 loss at El Paso, how the USL Standings are looking like for the last regular season week (drama on the menu home field advantage?), a statement that Jermaine Jones (CV Fuego Coach) shared, and more!

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The long-awaited 200th special podcast episode! Our guest host for the episode is a familiar voice to anyone who's been to a Sac Republic home game and/or has listened to The Breakaway Podcast, Connor Sutton (Senior Director, Event Operations & Entertainment at Sacramento Republic FC)! Connor interviews the SOTR team about a variety of SRFC and Podcast moments! Thank you so much to all of our listeners for all of your support in these first 200 episodes and the ones beyond the 200th! If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have made it to the 200th!

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