The 2020 Tournament Shuffle

California recently clarified health and safety guidelines for youth sports competitions. Read the guidelines HERE. “Youth Sports Must Comply with Cohorting [stable groups] and Physical Distancing Requirements, with an Emphasis on Physical Conditioning and Skill-Building.” In other words, soccer clubs can continue with their “camps.” Practices and drills that emphasize fitness and drills can continue. […]

Covid-19 Tries to Claim Another Event: Surf Cup 2020 Olders Postponed

In this Covid-19 era, the only certainty is uncertainty. Recently, the NCAA announced that the quiet period for soccer recruiting would be extended through August 2020. College soccer coaches usually plan their summer recruiting around the major West Coast summer tournament for competitive club soccer: SURF CUP. Proactively responding to COVID-19, Surf Cup Sports had […]

Surf Cup Announces New Socially Distanced Dates for Summer 2020. Applications open now.

Today, May 20, Surf Cup Sports released details for Summer Surf Cup Events in 2020. Anticipating a phased re-opening, but with an eye towards health and safety, tournament weekends have been rescheduled and spread across multiple weekends. Surf Cup Sports said in a statement, “After careful consideration, acknowledgment of the phased re-opening and input from […]

ManCity Cup 2020 moves to Labor Day Weekend

In response to Covid-19, the highly popular and extremely successful Manchester City Cup has been moved to Labor Day weekend for 2020. The change does bring some good news for non-DA clubs, though. Manchester City Cup will be adding qualifying events for the International Super Group. This is a great opportunity for non-DA clubs that […]

NFL Legend Drew Brees Joins Surf Sports

When Drew Brees went off Purdue University, he thought he was going to get to play college football and get a great education. After graduation, he would jump into a business career. He never imagined the sport of football would take him as far as it has. Drafted in the second round by the San […]

Meet Nike’s newest young star, and her Slammers FC team. #DREAMFURTHER

During the 2019 Champions League final, Nike debuted their big-budget ad, Dream Further. During today’s marquee Women’s World Cup match (USA! USA! USA!), the ad is sure to run again. The cinematic action-packed film features a young girl being brought along to be a part of some pretty big soccer moments. Nike’s emphasis is to […]

TFA PUTS THREE INTO SEMI’S AT soccerloco SURF CUP

This past weekend marks our 16th straight year that our club has participated in the annual soccerloco Surf Cup and as tradition would have it, we had four of our academy teams accepted to participate (B10, B11, B12 & B13). After the first two days of the tournament were completed three of our four teams advanced to the semi-finals on Monday (B10, […]

Albion team back for more at soccerloco Surf Cup

Ethan Dorrell and his teammates from the Albion U11 boys soccer team got an extra kick seeing a graduate of their club debuting for the Los Angeles Galaxy of MLS before they began their title defense in this year’s Surf Cup elite tournament. For a model, the youths can turn to Albion alum Ariel Lassiter, […]

BU16 Crowned 2015 soccerloco Surf Cup Champions – Super Cup Group

Having played in the Super Cup group, the toughest group in the tournament against some of the tip teams in the country. Coach Juan Guerrero and his BU16 squad were crowned 2015 Surf Cup Champions, in the Super Cup group. The squad went undefeated for the weekend, topping all teams in the Super Cup with […]

WEST COAST FC TEAMS DOMINATE AT THE PRESTIGIOUS 2015 soccerloco SURF CUP

West Coast FC teams BU17 Oliver Wyss/Bryan Wallace and BU16 & BU15 Neil Armour were all crowned champions at the 2015 soccerloco Surf Cup! All three teams advanced from group play as the top team in their bracket. The winning streak continues for the BU17’s as the current 2015 Cal South National Cup Champions. In addition, […]

2015 San Diego soccerloco Surf Cup Winners!

Surf Super Cup Winners Mens U18 Monarcas Academy Aztec Warriors (California North) Boys U17 West Coast FC Wyss (California South) Boys U16 Sherman Oaks Extreme SC – Lafa (California South) Boys U15 West Coast FC Armour (California South) Boys U14 La Premier FC Lafa (California South) Boys U13 Fullerton Rangers B02 White (California South) Boys […]

San Diego Surf Girls U15 are Surf Cup 2015 Champions!

Congratulations to Surf’s Girls ECNL Academy U15 and Girls ECNL Academy U17’s on becoming Surf Cup XXXV Champions! The GU15’s under new coach Paul Dolinsky got off to fantastic start to their new season by winning Surf Cup. The team were very impressive through the weekend and played some amazing soccer! Paul Dolinsky said “It […]

Surf Hawaii Women’s U18 soccerloco SURF CUP CHAMPIONS

Hawaii Surf 98 Girls Capture 2015 San Diego soccerloco Surf Cup Tournament Champions. Girls went 5-0 and only gave up 3 goals in 5 games. One of only 3 teams to win Surf Cup and it has been a long while since a Hawaii team won!

Surf Cup: What MLS and Mexican clubs are looking for

SAN DIEGO – We had the opportunity to talk to two club scouts this weekend at Surf Cup. One of them is Jorge Tello from Club Pachuca that plays in Liga MX and the other one is Jorge “Junior” Gonzales from the MLS club Seattle Sounders. Jorge Tello told us that this is their 3rd […]

U17 West Coast FC Surf Cup Champions

Congratulations to the U17 West Coast FC who has done a great job at this Surf Cup, winning first place in the Super Cup. Definitely one of the key players in the final couple of games was goalkeeper Blake Bunce. Both the quarterfinals and semifinals went to PK shootout and Blake was fortunate to come out strong […]

The highest level of soccer played at the men’s u18 soccerloco Surf Cup

San Diego – The weekend of July 25th and 26th was a success! At the 2015 soccerloco Surf Cup, the best of the best youth soccer teams played in high level competition and beautiful weather; teams from all over the country made their way to San Diego for this tournament. One of the highest levels of […]