Not Just for Kicks

San Francisco Magazine Ian A. Stewart Leah Fasten The tech-backed San Francisco Deltas are 
San Francisco’s newest pro soccer team. Can their money 
buy local fans’ love? Standing in the back room of Kezar Pub, Wallace Leite is in high spirits. Leite, a Brazilian with curly black hair, is holding a surdo bass drum newly emblazoned with a red-and-black San Francisco Deltas sticker. Every few minutes, he lets out another booming rat-ta-tat-tat-tat. On cue, the 50-odd Deltas supporters in a...