At the Socceroos’ World Cup training base in Alameda, there are reminders everywhere of the professional sports teams Oakland has lost.<\/p>\n
On the drive down from Oakland, the Coliseum stadium looms over the horizon.<\/p>\n
The old stadium was once home to the MLB’s Oakland A’s and NFL franchise Oakland Raiders, while NBA team Golden State Warriors were in the nearby arena.<\/p>\n
Throughout the hallways of the Socceroos’ state of the art training centre, there are still Oakland Raiders logos, photos and art, in between fresh new Football Australia decals and slogans.<\/p>\n
But that’s all that’s left.<\/p>\n
Over the past few years, the Raiders, A’s and Warriors all departed, with billionaire owners wanting flash new stadiums that local government wouldn’t finance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Socceroos’ World Cup training base in Alameda, there are reminders everywhere of the professional sports teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,7318,7322,7316,100,7319,7317,7320,143,145,144,7321,1880],"class_list":["post-344478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-global-news","tag-inkl","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}