Texas Border Business
Edinburg, Texas — Rio Grande Valley FC (4-12-9, 24 points) will host the South Texas Derby against San Antonio FC (9-7-9, 34 points) on August 29. Kickoff is scheduled at 7:00 p.m. at H-E-B Park. The match will be broadcast live on ESPN3.
The RGV FC will enter the match with a 2-0 win on the road to one of the top teams in the Western Conference, Orange County SC on Saturday, August 25. The Toros led the first halve when Defender Sheldon Sullivan sent a ball to Midfielder Matias Zaldivar where he then took on the defense sending the ball from the left side to the bottom right corner in the 30th minute. In the 46th minute, OC Midfielder Koji Hashimoto committed a foul where Forward Carlos Small took sending the ball in between the wall to the bottom right corner marking the second goal of the first halve. Goalkeeper Tyler Deric also had an outstanding seven-save shutout game where he saved all of seven shots to target from OC earning his spot in the USL’s team of the week.
SAFC are recovering from a loss at home where it gave them a four losing game streak. The result for SAFC was a 1-2 loss at Toyota Field to the Swope Park Rangers on Saturday, August 25. The loss makes their third home game loss of the 2018 season. Midfielder for SAFC Darnell King scored the only goal for the team marking his second goal of the season with SAFC. He also led the team with eight tackles. Midfielder Charlie Ward played with the Toros in the 2016-17 season where he then moved up to the Houston Dynamo in the 2017-18 season until he joined SAFC in June.
Last time both teams confronted each other the South Texas Derby ended with a 0-0 draw. As the Toros fight to earn a spot in the playoff race in this Derby, Defender Manny Padilla mentioned “It’s going to be a good one for the books as derbies are always a battle for 90+ minutes. You can expect us to come with a 110 percent effort as we also look to make a push for playoffs. We surely don’t want to lose this game as it is a derby and a playoff game for us. However, we will rely on our home crowd advantage to be our key player to push us throughout the game with their support.”
RGVFC will be giving away cowboy hats sponsored by Yoplait GoGurt to the first 1,000 fans of the match.
Updates on the match will be provided via Twitter at @RGVFC or by following #SomosToros. To see more matchday information, visit www.rgvfc.com .
