Author: Alicia Rodriguez

On Saturday July 1st, Orange County SC celebrated 10 seasons in Irvine with a night full of special commemorations. Wearing special gold jerseys with a 10-year crest marking the occasion, the club hosted a sellout crowd at Championship Soccer Stadium, their home dating back to 2017. The club feted a selection of their “Icons” over that span, and there were even a couple goodbyes, with captain Daniel Pedersen returning to his native Denmark and goalkeeper Cody Cropper retiring following the match. It’s safe to say the accomplishments of the past decade — including a full rebrand, that move into Championship…

The site now known as Angels on Parade launched in the spring of 2011 as The Goat Parade. By June of that year, I was writing on the site, and pretty much continued that for the next decade-plus. The longevity of a site like that, originally devoted to Chivas USA, which of course died after the 2014 season, would seem to have very long odds. But we persisted over the years, covering the final four seasons of the Chivas USA era, the interregnum between MLS teams, a rebrand of the site to Angels on Parade, the launch and now six seasons…