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The Cal Poly Mustangs men's soccer program represents California Polytechnic State University in men's soccer at the NCAA Division I level. Cal Poly is coached by former United States men's national team head coach Steve Sampson. Like most teams from Cal Poly, they play in the Big West Conference. The Big West Conference stopped sponsoring soccer in 1991, but resumed soccer in 2001. Over this period, Cal Poly competed in a regional conference called the MPSF. Since the return of soccer to the Big West, the Mustangs have appeared in 2 NCAA tournaments, most recently in 2015. Posting the program's best record in 2008 (11–6–6), Cal Poly placed 3rd in the Big West and qualified for the NCAA Division I Tournament for the first time in the school's history. Cal Poly managed to upset #11 UCLA 1–0 to advance to second round before losing 0–3 to #14 UC Irvine. The Mustangs play in Alex G. Spanos Stadium (capacity of 11,075) on the campus of the California Polytechnic State University. In 2011, collegesoccernews.com chose the Cal Poly vs UCSB soccer game as the #1 rivalry in college soccer.〔http://www.collegesoccernews.com/index_files/Page2764.htm〕 ==History== 2007 – A New Generation 2007 saw a perfect storm of events that gave birth to one of the largest and most respected college soccer fan-bases in the country. 1. The completion of Alex G. Spanos Stadium 2. Rival UCSB had just won the 2006 National Championship 3. The creation of the Mustang Manglers〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkJr5O9xuqQ〕 4. New Head Coach Paul Holocher brought increased success to the program. In 2006, with Spanos Stadium still under construction Cal Poly plays its home soccer games at the Sports Complex,〔http://gopoly.com/sports/msoc/2009-10/files/2006_Cal_Poly_Men-s_Soccer_Media_Guide.pdf〕〔http://gopoly.com/sports/msoc/2009-10/files/2007_Cal_Poly_Men-s_Soccer_Media_Guide.pdf〕 north of the baseball and softball fields, now known as the turf fields. 2007 brought the completion of the renovation and expansion of Spanos Stadium and the ability to host larger crowds.〔http://static.psbin.com/d/7/tvoc8p7arz2m2s/2007_Cal_Poly_Men-s_Soccer_Media_Guide.pdf〕 With a new stadium, a soccer team with an 8–1–1 record going into the game against rival UCSB, the defending national champion, and the growth of the Mustang Manglers a perfect storm led to 7,143 came to watch Cal Poly knock of the defending national champion 2–1.〔http://www.bigwest.org/sports/msoccer/stats/2007/cp.htm〕 Following students stormed the field cheering P'ole! P'ole! P'ole!〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQi1xmG_2Ig〕 This was the catalyst for the massive attendances to follow and growth of the rivalry beyond the soccer field. Buck the Gauchos fever would soon contribute to increased attendances, sellouts and tough competition to tickets for the basketball game against UCSB.〔http://issuu.com/calpoly/docs/2013-14_cal_poly_men_s_basketball_p〕 * (First Cal Poly Goal ) * (2007 Video of Students Storming the Field ) 2008 – Beyond Expectations Looking to build on the excitement of the previous year, Cal Poly hosted a "Break the Attendance Record Night" for the 2008 edition of the Blue-Green Rivalry against 19th ranked UCSB.〔http://mustangnews.net/history-of-the-blue-green-rivalry/〕 Few expected what would come. After word spread of the excitement of the previous year's win, nobody wanted to miss out this time around. As the game kicked off the crowd continued to swell. With no precedent Cal Poly's Athletics department and Event staff were caught off gourd. Thinking at a sell-out was impossible, event staff were not prepared. Students continued to pour in pushing Spanos Stadium well beyond its official capacity. Students packed in standing in both isles and seats, doubling up some sections. Every inch of standing room was packed. Early in the 1st Wes Feigner tipped a ball that trickled past the goalkeeper, however offside was called. This would have proved to be the game-winning.〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHpVueSUjkU&list=PLE94F4D6692F6EE5E&index=1〕 With the 2nd half about to start the crowd swelled out of control. The atmosphere was absolutely raucous after UCSB goalie, Kristopher Minton, made the mistake of acknowledging the student section. Acknowledging the raucous student section acted as a catalyst for a massive taunting. The entire front of the south sections pointed at Minton and began to taunt hem. Minton refused to take his position in the goal as taunting escalated. Referees had to calm Minton down but as the loud speakers blasted Ozzy Osborn's Crazy Train the students did not relent.〔 After 15 minutes Minton finally took his position in goal. Fortunately for Minton UCSB scored in the first minute of the 2nd Overtime to take the win. Gaucho fans acting as terrorists preceded to set off smoke grenades creating panic and terror among exiting fans.〔 The official attendance off 11,075 not only broke the school record and the conference attendance record, it was the 2nd largest on-campus, regular season attendance in NCAA history. The largest in over 21 years.〔 * (KSBY News Recap – 2008 Cal Poly vs UCSB ) 2008 saw the Big West Conference field 4 teams that were ranked in the NSCAA Top 25: Cal Poly, UC Davis, UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara.〔 Cal Poly Games vs Ranked Opponents〔 * 2–1 Win @ #23 New Mexico * 2–0 Loss @ #16 UC Davis * 0–1 2OT Loss vs #19 UCSB * 0–0 2OT Tie @ #17 UCSB * 1–2 Lost @ #19 UCLA * 2–2 2OT Loss in PKs @ #19 UCSB (Big West Playoffs) * 1–0 Win @ #11 UCLA (NCAA Tournament) * 0–3 Loss @ #14 UC Irvine (NCAA Tournament)〔http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=3709159〕〔http://www.bigwest.org/sports/msoccer/mediaguides/2009/09_MSocGuide.pdf〕 2009 2009 saw the introduction of one of Cal Poly's most cherished soccer traditions, the "Buck the Gauchos" t-shirt by the Poly Reps. The Blue-Green rivalry returned to Cal Poly as UCSB was ranked #3 in the country. The game ended in a 0–0 tie. Cal Poly's best chance came when a Cal Poly player broke free with the ball with only the goal to beat. Feet from the penalty box he was tackled from behind by a UCSB player. Thus, a free kick was given instead of a penalty kick.〔http://gopoly.com/sports/msoc/2009-10/files/teamcume2009.htm〕 9,824 fans attended the Wednesday gave vs UCSB. After this the Big West conference scheduled all Cal Poly vs UCSB games for a Friday, Saturday or Sunday night.〔http://gopoly.com/sports/msoc/archives〕 2010 The 2010 season opener featured #17 ranked UCLA during the Cal Poly Week of Welcome orientation. Excitement for the new school year along with a now established perennial attendance record setting rivalry game brought 8,717 fans to Spanos stadiums, the first attendance over 3200 at the renovated Spanos stadium. The game ended a 0–0 tie. UCLA has not returned to Cal Poly for a Friday or Saturday game since.〔http://gopoly.com/sports/msoc/2010-11/files/teamcume.htm〕 The Blue-Green Rivalry continued with #19 UCSB visiting Cal Poly on October 27, 2010. The game was broadcast on the Fox Soccer Channel. Without a win in the past two games and with feat that play in such large games was to aggressive for a team to score attendance dropped to 8,125. Only the seniors had attended Cal Poly in 2007, Cal Poly's last win. Fear of another tie ended with a first half goal by Junior Burgos.〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0DWJn_fGkc&list=PLE94F4D6692F6EE5E&index=15〕〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVD8dw3L-z4&list=PLE94F4D6692F6EE5E&index=10〕 UCSB would respond with a tying goal. The game would go into overtime. In Overtime Chris Gaschen scored the game-winning golden-goal. Fans stormed the field for the first time since 2007. Cal Poly has sold out every game against UCSB since.〔http://gopoly.com/sports/msoc/2010-11/files/teamcume.htm〕 * (Fox Soccer Channel Video of first Cal Poly Goal by Junior Burgos ) * (Fox Soccer Channel Video of Game-Winning Goal and fans storming the field ) * (Video – KSBY Recap of 2010 Game ) 2011 Cal Poly beat #13 UCSB in San Luis Obispo 2–1 in front of a sell-out crowd of 11,075.〔http://gopoly.com/sports/msoc/2011-12/files/teamcume.htm〕 Cal Poly men's soccer senior center back Patrick Sigler buried a 90th-minute penalty to hand the Mustangs a 2–1, come-from-behind triumph. Cal Poly trailed the Gauchos, 1–0, with 12 minutes to play until senior right back Cameron Walters headed a corner kick in for a game-tying goal. UCSB was assessed 2 red cards in the final 26 seconds.〔http://gopoly.com/sports/msoc/2011-12/releases/2011101502qdmj〕 * (slocalsports video recap ) * (Link to Cal Poly Athletics Photo Gallery ) * (Fan video of game-winning goal ) * (Video of game-winning goal fans storming the field ) * (Video of students storming the field ) 2012 – Sweep the Gauchos Cal Poly swept the gauchos first winning 1–0 in front of a sell-out of 11,075 in San Luis Obispo. Cal Poly then completed the sweep defeating UCSB 2–1 in Overtime. Cal Poly's George Malki scored with 64 seconds remaining to send the game into overtime. Big West Conference Play of the Year, Mackenzie Pridham then scored the game-winning game in overtime. Cal Poly students stormed the field at Harder Stadium. The game was once again broadcast of Fox Soccer Channel.〔http://gopoly.com/sports/msoc/2012-13/schedule〕〔http://gopoly.com/sports/msoc/2012-13/files/teamcume.htm〕〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIjRKixViu8&index=3&list=PLezWiu5AZUYLIjQgGBuZ3RMu88gVRMBAE〕〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmaurRiLlzk&index=2&list=PLezWiu5AZUYLIjQgGBuZ3RMu88gVRMBAE〕 * (George Malki's game-tying goal with 64 seconds left at UCSB ) * (Fan recap of the win at UCSB ) 2015 – New Head Coach Steve Sampson Leads the Mustangs In December 2014 Cal Poly hired former United States Men's National Soccer Team Head Coach Steve Sampson. Steve lead the US in the 1998 World Cup and also served as an Assistant Coach in the 1994 World Cup. He coached Santa Clara to the 1989 National Championship and coached the LA Galaxy to the 2005 MLS Cup and US Open Cup.〔http://gopoly.com/sports/msoc/2014-15/releases/20141204rxne9i〕 * (Steve Sampson Press Conference Video ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cal Poly Mustangs men's soccer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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