It wasn’t so long ago that Padres leader Peter Seidler and former soccer star Landon Donovan partnered as supporters of the “SoccerCity” plan headed by an investment group based in La Jolla.
For their troubles, the two men each took a figurative soccer ball to the chops, SoccerCity falling well short of a competing land-use measure, “SDSU West,” in the November 2018 general election.
Seidler invested $2 million in SoccerCity; Donovan, a spokesman who was effective at mobilizing local soccer fans who were enthusiastic in support of him and the project, conceded it was a rough outcome.