North American Soccer League Friendlies

San Jose Earthquakes 1979-85 Friendlies
               
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Los Angeles Aztecs vs. San Jose Earthquakes
Date: March 2, 1979     Aztecs lost 2-0    Attendance: 2,816
Goals: Earthquakes-Antonio Cestarollo, Paul Child

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San Jose Earthquakes vs. Vancouver Whitecaps (Santa Cruz, California)
Date: March 8, 1979    Earthquakes lost 3-2 (SO)     Attendance:
Goals-Whitecaps-Ray Lewington (2)      Earthquakes-Paul Child (2)
   
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Dallas Tornado at San Jose Earthquakes (San Jose, Californai)
Date: March 11, 1979   Earthquakes won 2-1 (SO)     Attendance: 4,000
Goals: Earthquakes-Easy Perez     Tornado-Pedro Gano

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Steve Ryan (14), Jairo (11)
 
 
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Dallas Tornado vs. San Jose Earthquakes (Tucson, Arizona)
Date: March 18, 1979   Earthquakes won 3-1     Attendance: 8,000
Goals: Earthquakes-Lars Jensen, Paul Child (2)     Tornado-Milton

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California Surf at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: March 16, 1980       Earthquakes lost 2-0    Attendance: 5,000
Goals: Surf-Laurie Abrahams, Steve Moyers

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Portland Timbers vs. San Jose Earthquakes (St. Mary's College, Moraga, California)
Date: March 23, 1980      Game was canceled

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San Diego Sockers vs. San Jose Earthquakes (Cabrillo College, Aptos, California)
Date: March 30, 1980       Earthquakes won/lost?    Attendance:
Not sure this game was played.

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California Surf vs. San Jose Earthquakes (Visalia, California)
Date: March 18, 1981       Earthquakes won 3-0    Attendance: 1,600
Goals: Earthquakes-George Pappademetriu, Tony Crescitelli, Steve David

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San Jose Earthquakes vs. Los Angeles Aztecs (Watsonville, CA)
Date: March 23, 1981       Aztecs won 1-0    Attendance: 1,000
Goals: Aztecs-Magic Gonzalez

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 Hibernian (Scotland) at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: May 17, 1981       Earthquakes lost 4-2     Attendance: 8,314
Goals: Earthquakes-George Best (2), Hibernian-Gordon Rae (3), Murray

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 Sparta Rotterdam (Netherlands) at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: July 18, 1981      Earthquakes won 3-1    Attendance: 2,507
Goals: Earthquakes-George Best (2), Tony Crescitelli     Sparta-Roelf van Tiktak
 
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San Jose Earthquakes at Hibernian (Scotland)
Date: October 5, 1981       Earthquakes lost 3-1     Attendance: 10,300
Goals: Earthquakes-    Hibernian-

Ally McLeod (L), George Best (R)
 
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San Jose Earthquakes at Linfield (Northern Ireland)
Date: October 7, 1981      Earthquakes tied 1-1    Attendance: 8,000
Goals: Earthquakes-Tony Crescitelli      Linfield-Billy Murray

Probably from the Linfield game, but not certain

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San Jose Earthquakes at Motherwell (Scotland)
Date: October 11, 1981      Earthquakes lost 5-2    Attendance:
Goals: Earthquakes-Tony Crescitelli,

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San Jose Earthquakes at Brentford (London, England)
Date: October 12, 1981      Earthquakes lost 8-2    Attendance: 3,970
Goals: Earthquakes-Tony Crescitelli
 
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San Jose Earthquakes at Exeter (England)
Date: October 14, 1981     
Game was canceled

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New York Cosmos at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: March 21, 1982       Earthquakes lost 3-0      Attendance: 8,377
Cosmos-Giorgio Chinaglia (2), Seninho
     

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San Diego Sockers vs. San Jose Earthquakes (Aptos, California)
Date: March 27, 1982       Earthquakes won 3-2 (SO)      Attendance: 1,170
Goals: Earthquakes-Godfrey Ingram, Tony Crescitelli     Sockers-Todd Saldana, Paul Cahill

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 Queens Park Rangers (England) at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: May 31, 1982       Earthquakes tied 3-3     Attendance: 10,116
Goals: Earthquakes-Vince Hilaire, Godfrey Ingram, Ian Hamilton,    QPR-Warren Neil, Simon Stainrod, Mike Flanagan

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 Guadalajara (Mexico) at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: August 28, 1982      Earthquakes tied 1-1     Attendance: 5,115
Goals: Earthquakes-Mike Hunter     Guadalajara-Ricardo Perez
     

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 Dynamo Minsk (USSR) at Golden Bay Earthquakes
Date: May 15, 1983       Earthquakes tied 3-3     Attendance: 11,798
Goals-Earthquakes-Steve Zungul, Stan Terlecki, Godfrey Ingram    Dynamo-Petr Vassilevsky, Igor Gurinovich, Aleksandr Prokopenko

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 Brighton & Hove Albion (England) at Golden Bay Earthquakes
Date: June 8, 1983      Earthquakes won 4-1     Attendance: 5,898
Goals-Earthquakes-Jan Goossens, Steve Zungul, Godfrey Ingram   Brighton-Chris Rhoden
 
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San Diego Sockers vs. Golden Bay Earthquakes (Livermore, California)
Date: May 6, 1984       Earthquakes won 4-1     Attendance: 3,500
Goals: Earthquakes-Steve Zungul (2), Jan Goossens, George Kataklidis,       Sockers-Lorenz Hilkes

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 VfB Stuttgart (Germany) at Golden Bay Earthquakes
Date: June 10, 1984       Earthquakes won 4-2     Attendance: 12,468
Goals: Earthquakes-Steve Zungul (2), Jan Goossens, Branko Segota   Stuttgart-Asgeir Sigurvinsson

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San Diego Sockers vs. Golden Bay Earthquakes (Livermore, California)
Date: May 6, 1984       Earthquakes won 4-1     Attendance: 3,500
Goals: Earthquakes-Steve Zungul (2), Jan Goossens, George Katakalidis       Sockers-Lorenz Hilkes
   
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Earthquakes Alumni vs. Golden Bay Earthquakes
Date: May 12, 1984       Earthquakes won 5-2     Attendance: 8,943
Goals: Earthquakes-Steve Zungul (4), Jan Goossens      Alumni-George Best, Jan Goossens

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Sporting Lisbon (Portugal) at Golden Bay Earthquakes
Date: June 17, 1984       Earthquakes won 2-1    Attendance: 11,561
Goals: Earthquakes-Manny Rojas, Igor Vrablic    Sporting Lisbon-Lito

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The NASL folded before the 1985 season. The Earthquakes joined the WACS and also played a full schedule of friendlies. I'm including both sets of games.

San Francisco All-Stars at San Jose Earthquakes (San Francisco, CA)
Date: June 9, 1985   Earthquakes won 2-1     Attendance:
Goals: Earthquakes-Dzung Tran (2)     All-Stars-
   
Los Angeles United at San Jose Earthquakes (San Jose, CA)
Date: June 10, 1985   Earthquakes won 2-0     Attendance: 2,669
Goals: Earthquakes-Carlos Morales, Dev Rndler
   
USA National Team at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: June 19, 1985   Earthquakes lost 2-0     Attendance:
Goals: USMNT-Bruce Murray, Ricky Davis

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Canadian National Team (Canada) at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: June 22, 1985   Earthquakes  won 2-1   Attendance: 3,791
Goals: Earthquakes-Dan Salvemini, Derek Sanderson   Canada-Greg Ion
   

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Linfield (Northern Ireland) at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: June 26, 1985   Earthquakes won 4-1    Attendance: 4,252
Goals: Earthquakes-Dzung Tran, Mark Arya, Dan Salvemini, Derek Sanderson     Linfield-Robert Barr

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San Jose Earthquakes at Tulsa Roughnecks (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Date: June 29, 1985      Earthquakes lost 3-1   Attendance: 3,123
Goals: Earthquakes-Jorge Ibanez     Roughnecks-Billy Caskey

 

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Canadian National Team (Canada) at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: July 20, 1985      Earthquakes tied 1-1  Attendance: 3,663
Goals: Earthquakes-Derek Sanderson     Canada-MarMark Karpun

   

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Belenense (Portugal) at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: July 27, 1985      Earthquakes lost 2-1 (SO)  Attendance: 5,374
Goals: Earthquakes-Mark Nickeas    Belenense-Paulo Monteiro

   

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 Chivas Guadalajara (Mexico) at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: July 28, 1985      Earthquakes tied 1-1     Attendance: 5,115
 Goals: Earthquakes-Mike Hunter     Guadalajara-Ricardo Perez

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Mexican National Youth Team at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: August 7, 1985      Earthquakes tied 0-0  Attendance: 8,500

   

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Los Angeles United at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: August 11, 1985      Earthquakes tied 2-0  Attendance:
Goals: Earthquakes-Carlos Morales, Dev Redler

   
 
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San Francisco Greek Americans at San Jose Earthquakes
DatDate: August 14, 1985      Earthquakes won 2-1   Attendance: 2,344
Goals: Earthquakes-Mark Arya, Chris Dangerfield     Greek Americans-Jerry Findlay

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 Victoria Riptides at San Jose Earthquakes
DatDate: August 17, 1985      Earthquakes won 2-1     Attendance: 3,482
Goals: Earthquakes-Fred Hamel, Chris Dangerfield     Riptides-Lou Garraway

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San Jose Earthquakes Alumni at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: August 24, 1985      Earthquakes won 3-1  Attendance:
Goals: Earthquakes-Dev Rendler, Carlos Morales, Dzung Tran

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Flamengo at San Jose Earthquakes
Date: October 12, 1985      Earthquakes lost 3-0 Attendance: 4,500
Goals: Flamengo-

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