SAN JOSE — A renowned South Bay soccer coach, whose roots go back to playing for a forerunner of the San Jose Earthquakes, is speaking publicly for the first time about a violent clash in June inside his Almaden Valley home where he fatally shot his longtime friend, former teammate and coaching colleague.

Dave Gold has been cleared of criminal liability in the death of Ronald Morriss. Now he wants to detail his experience to the wider public, particularly the local soccer community in which he has spent most of his American career, after spending months being confronted with rumors, innuendo and conjecture about what happened between him and Morriss the night of June 6.

“A lot of people hate me. They think I’m an evil man. We have the same friends, players that played with us. I get it,”

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