On Friday, January 13, the San Jose Earthquakes and Wells Fargo traveled to 
Five Canyons Park and presented Castro Valley Soccer Club a $2,000 check on
behalf of the Wells Fargo Goals For Education Program. The grant will be
used to help purchase new goals for CVSC after vandals caused $10,000 worth
of damage to their equipment last year.

While players of the youth soccer club and the TOPS (soccer players with
special needs) program looked on, representatives from Wells Fargo, CVCS 
and the San Jose Earthquakes spoke about the importance of youth soccer.
 Earthquakes midfielder Anthony Ampaipitakwong closed the ceremony by
presenting the check to CVSC and joining the kids in a scrimmage. 
Afterwards, Ampaipitakwong signed autographs for all the kids and gave them
 a Wells Fargo gift bag that included a soccer ball.
This was the second Wells Fargo Goals For Education check presentation the 
Earthquakes and Wells Fargo had completed this week. On Wednesday, January
 11, the Quakes joined Wells Fargo at Bret Harte Elementary School in San
Francisco to issue America SCORES a $1,500 check for their after-school
soccer/poetry program. In total, the Wells Fargo Goals For Education
 program will issue 16 grants totalling $10,000 to local youth soccer and
athletic development programs this year.
