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Episodes

April 22, 2025

S1E214 - A Week of Goals for "Seba"!

Sacramento moves on in the U.S. Open Cup but drops points late once more in USL play. We talk about the 2 recent SRFC games, preview the upcoming USL Cup game vs AV Alta FC, and more!

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April 15, 2025

S1E213 - An Own Goal Game at Orange County...

Sacramento Republic scores three times—unfortunately including two own goals—in a tough 2-1 loss to Orange County; we also talk about the upcoming U.S. Open Cup match vs. El Farolito and next Saturday's game against Phoenix Rising.

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April 8, 2025

S1E212 - From 3 Pts. to 1 (Again!)...

Sacramento concedes late again in a 1-1 draw with Louisville, we share once again the press conference post-match, we talk about USL standings, our upcoming opponent Orange County, and Podcast Magic, Villyan Bijev, joins the episode to tell us more about

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April 3, 2025

S1E211 - The First Loss vs Tulsa...

Sacramento Republic suffers a historic first loss against Tulsa, but can they bounce back against Louisville City? Plus, updates on the Modesto USL project, Central Valley Fuego’s win in a new league, and more!

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March 24, 2025

S1E210 - From 3 Points to 1 Point in a Few Minutes...

Sac Republic’s 2-2 draw against Colorado Springs left fans frustrated after two questionable penalty calls. We break it all down, look ahead to the FC Tulsa match, and discuss USL’s big promotion/relegation news!

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March 11, 2025

S1E209 - A Win & Sold Out Home Opener Game!

We started the 2025 season with a 2-1 win vs the 2024 first place team, New Mexico, and had a sold out game too! The SOTR Team and guest, Editor for Qual City Soccer, Ryan Hodek, talk about Sac Republic's home opener win, our upcoming rival Colorado Sprin

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March 3, 2025

S1E208 - Just Days Away From the 2025 Home Opener!

The wait is finally over! The 2025 season begins next Saturday and what better than at home! Sac Republic's rival is New Mexico, 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

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Feb. 25, 2025

S1E207 - The Pre-Season Game vs The Former Los Dos!

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

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Feb. 19, 2025

S1E206 - The New: Jersey, Players, and USL League?

After almost a month of pre-season for the podcast, we're back! And we have a lot to talk about. Sharon lets us know how the new jersey reveal event went, our thoughts on the new jersey, a few couple of players were signed, a new possible USL "Premier" Le

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Jan. 21, 2025

S1E205 - The 2025 SRFC Schedule, New Players, & More News!

The first episode of 2025 is here! (Sorry for the wait!) And we have a lot to talk about! The 2025 Sac Republic schedule (there'll be more games with the introduction of a new cup between USLC & USL1 Clubs), new players arriving in Sacramento, events for

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Dec. 24, 2024

S1E204 - Welcome to SRFC, Neill Collins!

Happy Holidays Sac Soccer Fans! The news we've been waiting for has finally been announced! The new head coach for Sac Republic is Neill Collins! He spent years in Tampa Bay with the Rowdies as a player and then his first years as coach so joining us on t

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Nov. 22, 2024

Good & Bad News for Central Valley Soccer

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 th

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Nov. 13, 2024

New Team Ownership & Stadium News!!!

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

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Nov. 7, 2024

S1E203 - Our 2024 Playoffs Stayed In Vegas...

Our 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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Nov. 5, 2024

THANK YOU, Coach Mark Briggs!!!

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 no

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Oct. 29, 2024

S1E202 - Back to Vegas for the USL Playoffs!

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 V

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Oct. 22, 2024

S1E201 - Drama on the Menu for USL Decision Day?

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 th

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Oct. 16, 2024

S1E200 - The SOTR 200TH EPISODE! (w/Guest Host: Connor Sutton!)

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 & Entertainm

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Oct. 14, 2024

S1E199 - A Men's Warehouse Week for Sac Republic

This week SRFC played two games which resulted in ties (return of the Men's Warehouse sponsorship?) 2-2 vs Monterey Bay (in an unfortunate last minute tie) and a 0-0 tie away at Memphis! Both games are reviewed, Podcast Winner Dinner update, and we talk a

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Oct. 8, 2024

S1E198 - The Away Winless Streak Continues...

Despite winning 1-0 at halftime, we ended up losing 2-1 at San Antonio, although the positive after the match was Sac Republic clinching playoffs! Jared talks about his adventure going to the game (including his post game adventures having an amazing burg

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Oct. 1, 2024

S1E197 - Republic FC Soars to a HEROIC Victory!

Last Sunday we witnessed one of the best home games of the season as Sac Republic beat first place New Mexico, 4-0! The SOTR team talks about a 25k seat stadium on the way to Sac (could it be SRFC's future home?), game day experience, the actual game, th

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Sept. 23, 2024

S1E196 - What Happened in Vegas (& New Mexico) Will Hopefully Stay Th…

The last two games this past week were not what we had hoped for. We lost 3-1 at New Mexico, and 2-1 at Las Vegas and now have to be focused to not lose any points and risk losing home advantage for the playoffs. Our two special guests tonight, Nick and W

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Sept. 16, 2024

S1E195 - Phoenix Falling at Heart Health Park!

In what was a must-win match because of our standings and what had happened last year in playoffs, Sac Republic beat Phoenix Rising (or should we say Falling this time?) 2-0! The SOTR team talks about this match, our upcoming opponents New Mexico (midweek

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Sept. 11, 2024

S1E194 - A Tale of Two Halves in South Carolina...

Last Saturday's game unfortunately ended with a loss in the final minutes of 2-1 at Charleston. The SOTR team talks about the game, the recent loan transfer to Sac Republic (Harvey Neville), and news of USL interest in a team/stadium in Modesto, CA!

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