Peter Bridgwater

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Peter Bridgwater (7th March 1935 - 21 June 2005) was the first president of the San Jose Clash. He had been involved with professional soccer in San Jose since 1984, when he was named general manager of the original San Jose Earthquakes of the North American Soccer League. Bridgwater later bought the Earthquakes franchise, and then after the NASL ceased operations in 1985, he founded the Western Soccer League, forerunner to the American Professional Soccer League—later known as the A-League and now the USL First Division.