Green is the Color Podcast

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Jorge Perez-Navarro’s profile on MLS' web page

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T2 Playoff Tickets

Click on the image below for T2 playoff tickets for this Friday

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

* Oregon Youth Soccer Association (OYSA)

* OYSA AGM Award Winners

* OYSA TOPSoccer

* OYSA Become a Referee

* OYSA Coaching Pathway

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Order Building Portland’s Memorial Coliseum: A Mid-Century Political Firestorm:

* Arcadia Publishing

* Powell’s

* Amazon

Order The 1975 Portland Timbers: The Birth of Soccer City, USA:

* Arcadia Publishing

* Powell’s

* Amazon

Resources Mentioned in the Podcast:

* The Vanport Mosaic

* Japanese Evacuees, Portland Assembly Center (Oregon History Project)

* Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps during WWII

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Attend:

* Boykoff at the Axe & Rose Sunday September 20—Register Here

Order:

* Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine at OR Books

* Kicking at Duke University Press

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Transforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story

How to get your tickets:

[Click on dates to access Aladdin Theater’s ticket website for that showing]

* Thursday June 4, 7:30 (VIP meet and greet at 5:30, with doors opening at 6:30)

* Friday June 5, 7:30 (VIP meet and greet at 5:30, with doors opening at 6:30)

More about the film here: Green Is the Color (Clyde Best Film)

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This episode features an NASL Timber (and former Whitecap) who is in four different soccer/sports Halls of Fame, including the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame: Dale Mitchell

Save the Caps: Sign the Wall

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This episode features a Timbers defender who first played for the USL Timbers in 2012 and is now in his fourth seasons for the MLS side: Eric Miller

Clyde Best Documentary in Portland June 4 and 5, Aladdin Theater

How to get your tickets:

Ade will be in town with Clyde Best for these showings.

[Click on dates to access Aladdin Theater’s ticket website for that showing]

* Thursday June 4, 7:30 (VIP meet and greet at 5:30, with doors opening at 6:30)

* Friday June 5, 7:30 (VIP meet and greet at 5:30, with doors opening at 6:30)

More on Transforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story

* Listen to Podcast Episode 36: Clyde Best

* Read this article in The Times from Lo...

This episode features a SW Washington native who refereed his first professional match at Jeld-Wen in 2012 and, last season, his 300th at Providence Park: PRO Referee, Jeremy Hanson

Episode 65 was recorded live at the adidas Employee Store and features Mick Hoban, Scot Thompson, Liam Ridgewell, and Diego Valeri

This episode features a former OSU Beaver and Portland Pride player who is currently Oregon Youth Soccer Association's Executive Director: Simon Date

Resources Mentioned:

* TOPSoccer via Oregon Youth Soccer Association

* Goal Lines Magazine

This episode features an original Timber who signed with the team after an open tryout and played the 1975 and 1976 seasons: Nick Nicolas

This episode features an American- and World-record holding Paralympian in the long jump and pole vault, respectively, who is the current Timbers Mental Performance Coach: Lacey Henderson

This episode features conversations about the recent international window with Equatorial Guinea defender Charles Ondo and US Youth International Sawyer Jura

This episode features conversations about the recent international window with Canadians Maxime Crépeau and Kamal Miller, Venezuelan Kevin Kelsy, and New Zealand International Finn Surman #RCTID

Episode 59 features an Olympia, Washington native who has won championships with the Sounders as both a player and a coach: Seattle Sounders FC Director of Goalkeeping: Tom Dutra

Join the Timbers Saturday August 16 for Diego Chará Bobblehead Night (click on picture for more information)

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This podcast features a conversation with 7 guests as part of the INDUSTRY One Foundation’s 12th exhibition: GROUNDBREAKERS: Exploring Portland’s Impact on Global Soccer Culture.

The exhibition runs through mid September at INDUSTRY One Foundation (415 SW 10th Avenue) in Portland.

Below is a description of the exhibition from INDUSTRY One Foundation, and you can follow links throughout these notes to find information about these panelists and to support and/or get involved with their organizations.

From the INDUSTRY One Foundation release:

“Here in Portland, we do soccer differently. Groundbreakers explores the un...

I love the story and lore of the 35-yard shootouts from the middle years of the NASL and early seasons of MLS. I’ve lived through them, and I’ve written at length about them here on this site. It’s possible things I probably should know and remember have been forcibly evicted from my hippocampus by pretty much all there is to know about something as trivial as starting 35 yards from goal with 5 seconds to get off a shot when the game is on the line. I’ve even tracked down the exact Washington DC-area house where the idea was...

This is a 2010 interview with one of the first NASL Timbers employees, who named the team and also helped University of Portland Soccer become an intercollegiate sport: PR Director Dennis O'Meara

This episode features the Portland Timbers General Manager from when professional soccer returned to Soccer City, USA in 2001: Jim Taylor

This podcast features a conversation with the hosts of The Timber Review: Adam Susman and Adam Booker

This episode features the first homegrown NASL Timber, who went on to win 6 indoor championships before returning home with then-new franchise Portland Pride: Jim Gorsek

This episode features a Portland native & NASL Timbers fan who followed the club through all iterations since, and was there from Day 1 of what the soccer world knows now as the Timbers Army: Nevets

This episode, recorded live at the Portland adidas Employee Store, features a conversation with Timbers head coach Phil Neville and forward Santiago Moreno

I’m excited to announce that I have two very special guests scheduled to appear for the milestone 50th episode of the Green Is the Color podcast: Phil Neville and Santiago Moreno from our 2025 Portland Timbers!

And I want you to join us, in person, as we record live on Thursday March 27 at the Portland adidas Employee Store.

It is a free event, but you do need to register because only the first 200 guests to register are guaranteed entry. Just click on the sign-up link below and follow the directions from there. And, of course, pl...

This episode features one of the first Timbers signed when the club returned in 2001, a former UP Pilot who was taken by New England Revolution in the inaugural 1996 MLS Draft: Darren Sawatzky

As I mentioned in Podcast Episode 46: Other Podcasts/Outlets, V.1, I’ve been able to get to know some of the talented, passionate people at other outlets who work to bring us coverage of the Timbers and Thorns. Before and during the 2025 season, I’m going to have a few episodes where I talk to them and hopefully get to share what they and their work are about. This second episode of those features Talk Timbers and The Morrisonic Podcast.

Talk Timbers

* Talk Timbers (on Timbers.com)

* Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: Talk...

Also, in Eric’s interview, he talks about when he wrote and performed a song that would not only outsell Paul McCartney & Wings in our local market but would also become the theme song of our podcast, “Green Is the Color.”

Link to: The Bevy Cup website

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In my time doing Green Is the Color, I’ve been able to get to know some of the talented, passionate people at other outlets who work to bring us coverage of the Timbers and Thorns. Before the 2025 season starts, I’m going to have a few episodes where I talk to them and hopefully get to share what they and their work are about. This first episode of those features Stumptown Footy and The I-5 Corridor.

Stumptown Footy

* Stumptown Footy (webpage, which incudes a link to their podcast)

* Stumptown on X (@StumptownFooty)

This episode features the Timbers USL/A-League era all-time leading scorer who played over 100 matches in the green and gold: El Matador, Byron Alvarez

This episode features a Portland native who turned a one-day tryout into a two-year stint with his hometown NASL Portland Timbers: Scott Meiggs

As mentioned in the interview, below are 4 resources where you can learn more about prostate cancer:

* American Cancer Society

* Prostate Cancer Foundation Patient Resources

* Zero Prostate Cancer

* BACPAC (Black & African-Descent Collaborative for Prostate Cancer ACtion)

This episode features Pacific Northwest native, former professional player, and current Portland Timbers assistant coach: Shannon Murray

This episode features an Oregon native who first shot the Portland Timbers in 2003 and is now the Portland Timbers Director of Photography: Craig Mitchelldyer