1976/77 - Formation as NSC Tigers

The Original squad, began play under the name N.S.C. Tigers. The "Tiger" name comes from National Semi-Conductor's mascot, a Tiger. 

The team began play as a company team rostered from within National Semi-Conductor in Sunnyvale CA. Coached (PLAYER COACH) by Farshid (Fred) Azima, this team expanded to a two team club by player acquisition from outside the company. Current team members Doug Laporte, Marcello Salvatierra, and Werner van den Abeleen are the original 3 NSC players still active with the team, with Marcello the lone remaining NSC employee. The roster was sprinkled with players from a multitude of backgrounds. 

1978/79 - Formalized Club w/coach, trainer

The initial wave: Mike Barr, Dirk vanderBeets, the van den Bergs (Jon & Marc), Bob Miele, Tom Korwan, and Scott McGlothlin

The 1st and 2nd team competed in a 1st division & alliance division structure, interchanging players. Various 1st and 2nd place titles were achieved across SJ Park & Rec leagues. In the middle of this format, a 4 pack of players headed south to San Luis Obispo for school, and upon returning, began a recruiting network that has served us in fine fashion. Note the deep pool of players from Cal Poly in the Roster section.  Memory doesn't serve me all that well for some of the older names, so please email me (jonvdb@comcast.net) for updates. 

1984/85 - Independence from NSC

Poly wave, and SJS  #1 - Jon van den Berg (returning to team), Randy Smith, Alex Crozier, Bob Miele (returning to team)... 

Additionally we added some former San Jose State alumni, which include: Stu Caldwell, Alan Kute, Joe Gangale, and from Santa Clara Jeff Dandridge. 

It was this wave combined with the core NSC guys remaining, that began the ascent into the late 80's which included our joining the Peninsula League, steadily climbing into 1st division, and our first promotion match to get into Majors. The last year we wore the original Tiger Yellow & Black. Werner was living in Holland for a 5 year period, working on his game.

The photo here has some of the faces: Promotion

The above group worked to establish a defense first philosophy, playing a 4-4-2, and brilliant goalkeeping. 

1989/90 - The Run on the 90's

Poly wave #2 - Campbell, Peck, Williams, Murphy, Shiveley, Hatcher, Kalpakoff, Sarmiento

I can't recall, for instance, the years that the various goalies spent time in the nets, or whether Hatch joined us in wave #2 from Poly or Wave #3 (below), or in-between. The 89/90 phase did see the return of Werner

 The promotion This phase in  Majors/Premier is not all inclusive, but it has many of the faces: Promotion

Note: the addition of these players meant the end for almost all the NSC folks and early Tigers. I think we hung onto the van den Bergs, Werner and Doug!. The 2nd wave pushed us to the pinnacle of competition in this area, Peninsula League Major Division. This was post NASL, pre MSL, and the top flight division consisted of teams like the Oaks, Sporting, PAC, Benfica, PARS, SJ Lions. ** Not everyone in the following table was on the roster at the SAME year, but for a 4-5 year period we employed various configurations of the following folks:

1994/95 3rd Return to Majors

Poly wave #3 - Juarez, Korngiebel, Innamura, Keyes and a kid named Walker. We also picked up Rob Stribling in this window.

Then came our Internationals: Soriano, Badet, Henninger, Benoit

It's not clear to me how and when the wave #3 players were added. The facts are hazy. What is clear is that we split with our SJS core, as Stu, Alan, Pablo, Joe Gongale began families. After the split we sold the Tigers slot in Majors for #1500.00 and had a party. Mike Williams moved to the East Coast, Alex took a job at CalPoly coaching the womens team, Barry moved to SoCal, Larry retired from competitive play, Shives started playing hockey and raisin his kids.  So wiith all that change, we needed some fresh legs, ergo, the Poly Wave #3. Peninsula made us start out in like 2nd division. We whiiped most everyone, winning 2nd, then 1st (by beating the Gobbans twice), then battled head to head with a few teams to take the Premier Division, alas achieving promotion back in Majors in 1998.

The photo here has some of the faces: Promotion

1999/00

The Mini-Merger with/Fima = Maxwell, Koga, Fassaro, Chellew

The team entered 2000 as the oldest team still competing in the Peninsula Open class. The 1999 season was a good one, we won the league Cup for the 4th time, but the last two years were taking its toll on the old bodies. Things, such as turning out enough healthy bodies are wearing on us. We lose Stribling to a knee, we lose Fermin to a knee, Korngiebel breaks his arm, Peck begins traveling, Bobby moves to Sebastapool, Donne moves back to So Cal. Benoit moves back to France (HP sent him back), Walker disappears, Brian moves to SanFran. Suddenly we find ourselves in need of a makeover - yet again

This is a photo from the Vegas Kings Cup, but it has many of the merged folks: Tigers/Fima

2002-Present

The extension via Sun MicroSystems - Choi, Hendel, Son-Bell, Holloway, Pezoa