On Sunday, the Sacramento Bee featured an important message to fans from Republic FC owner Kevin Nagle ahead of the club’s U.S. Open Cup contest with San Jose Earthquakes on May 25. Preview Nagle’s message below, and read the full piece at SacBee.com.
On Wednesday, we have a massive opportunity to show why Sacramento belongs on the biggest stages.
You may not know about the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup – the nation’s oldest soccer tournament. But you know what it means for Sacramento to rise to the occasion, to punch above our weight class, and remind people how magnificent our community is. And we need you to be there when Sacramento Republic hosts San Jose of MLS on Wednesday night.
The annual Open Cup tournament is full of magical moments like March Madness – instant classics, Cinderella showdowns, where David triumphs over Goliath. But before we take the field and hear the first whistle, we can write Sacramento into the Open Cup history books with a capacity crowd ready to push the Boys in Old Glory Red into the quarterfinals of the tournament. We know what we’re capable of with the city behind us. There isn’t another environment in the sports world quite like a stadium full of Sacramento fans.
I’ll be blunt. We need you. Every single one of you. Every last fan and friend. Pound every drum. Wave every flag. Sing every song. Stomp every bleacher. It is going to take a massive effort to push our club forward – but with this community behind us, we know we’ll reach great heights.
