Troy Dayak
Troy Dayak
Troy Dayakis a former American soccer player who played as central defender. He spent his entire Major League Soccer career with the San Jose Clash/Earthquakes and nearly all of his professional career playing for Bay Area teams...
catching create league point team teams top tough
It's tough at this point and unfortunately we're catching the top two teams in the league back-to-back-to-back. But by now, we can play with any team in this league. If we can create our own luck, we're going to put some teams away big time.
absolute fans hard historical moved team
It's an absolute shame. These soccer-knowledgeable fans are hard to come by. It doesn't make sense that a viable, historical team will be moved to a different location.
chicago fresh huge opportunity played
It's a huge opportunity for us. If we play the way we played in Chicago with fresh legs, I don't think it would be a real contest.
believe guys philosophy physically start starting team
We're a completely different team emotionally and physically from the start of the season. Guys are starting to believe in my philosophy and each other.
chance difficult good hard knew matched prepare team work
We knew this was a difficult team and they had a good chance to prepare for our team, but we matched their intensity. It is a team concept. If you work hard good things happen.
absolutely finally fourth until
We didn't show up until the fourth quarter. That's when we finally showed up and played. It was absolutely a letdown.
capitalize few guys players strengths surround technical third
They've got a few players that are very technical and they surround those guys with speed. They pester you in your third a lot. We have to try to nullify their strengths and capitalize on our opportunities.
good recover sports tough turned
They turned away some of our good opportunities and it was tough to recover from that.
next players playing positions
A lot of players are playing for positions on next year's team.
punch pushing talking
There was pushing and a lot of talking but I did not punch him,
game goes happened intense player stuff
There's a lot more stuff that goes on during the game than happened there. I'm an intense player and he's a competitor. It's all part of being competitive, that's all.
attacking good threat
Antonio is so good because he's also a threat as an attacking defender.
somebody stepped
Somebody should have stepped up to the plate.
expected level nice perceived
Lately, he's been outstanding. That's the way we perceived him from the beginning. It's nice to see him get to the level we expected him to be.