January 29, 2012

The Santa Clara Sporting ’00 Boys Green Team are only 10 years old, but this squad has already put their mark on the club’s history books with a NorCal State Cup Championship in the State 3 Division that followed up their back-to-back 2010 and 2011 CYSA President’s Cup Championships.

The young Santa Clara team started the NorCal State Cup run last August when they smothered three teams in bracket play. Sporting defeated the MCFC Spartans 4-1, crushed the OSV Union FC 00B Gold team 9-1, then beat DeAnza Force 4-2. They won all three games of their second round of bracket play. They lost to the Turlock Tornados 3-4, the only game they lost out of nine games, which pushed them into the Semi-finals against the Red Star SA00B Red Team, where they won 4-1. The Santa Clara ’00B Team defeated Central Marin Arsenal ’01 in the final by a score of 3-0 to win the NorCal Cup in the State 3 Division.
Congratulations to the players, coaches and parents. 

January 17, 2012

The Santa Clara Sporting ’99 Girls White Team opened their 2012 soccer season winning the U12 Girls Gold Division at the 2012 Palo Alto Winter Turf soccer tournament on January 7th-8th. The team won an exciting championship game 4-3 during a penalty kick shoot-out against the DeAnza Force Blue team when the Santa Clara goalie blocked a penalty kick. The team went undefeated in bracket play to reach the Finals. They won two games (2-1 over Central Marin Magic, and 2-0 over Alpine Strikers FC 99G Red), and tied the Mission Valley United 99 MVU Girls Black team 1-1 in their opening match. Congratulations to the players, coaches and parents.

December 21, 2011

Over the past two weekends the Santa Clara Sporting ‘00 Boys Green Team pulled off a repeat performance by winning the CYSA Presidents Cup Championship title for the second year in a row. Starting the weekend of December 10th-11th, the Sporting ‘00B Green team defended their title by scoring 24 goals against their opponents, and giving-up only two goals in four games to move onto the semi-finals on December 17th. In the semi-finals, Sporting had their toughest game against Roseville Battle and scored the golden goal in OT with less than a minute left in play. Sporting then took the championship by winning 3-2 against Tracy United AC Milan.

Congratulations to the players, coaches and families!
 

December 21, 2011

The Santa Clara Sporting '00 Boys White Team were finalists in the CYSA Association Cup this past weekend in Sacramento, CA. The team scored nine goals against their opponents and only gave up three goals in three games the weekend of December 10th-11th. The team returned on December 17th and played a hard semi-final, coming back twice and prevailed in the end, 3-2. Although the team did not win the final, they played hard and can be very proud of what they achieved.

Congratulations to the players, coaches and families!

December 4, 2011

The Santa Clara Sporting Club and Matteo Studios are thrilled to announce that the Sporting players and parents raised $28,603.02 during the month of October 2011, in their annual Goals for a Cure campaign! This year’s fund raising effort brought in the most donations over the past four years since Goals for a Cure was launched back in 2008. Santa Clara Sporting families have now raised over $83,000 since 2008. The funds raised are used to support women who need financial assistance to get a mammogram breast screen exam. El Camino Hospital used the first $55,000 raised by Goals for a Cure to provided 84 free breast screens last year, and eight women were detected with breast cancer and treated. The Santa Clara Sporting ’95 Boys White Team raised the most donations collecting $3,003, and will make the check presentation to El Camino Hospital in January 2012 at the Santa Clara Sporting Club.

Goals for a Cure was created by Jason and Kevin Azevedo when two mothers on the Santa Clara Sporting 93 Boys Team were identified with breast cancer. One mother passed away, and the second survived. "We started seeing that some of them were nto getting detected because they just didn’t have the money to do so," said Azevedo.

Every year in October, every Santa Clara Sporting Teams compete in their pink Goals for a Cure jersey and raise donations and awareness to fight the disease. Dr. Patricia Rogers from El Camino Hospital came-up with the recommendation to use the donation funds to provide early breast screeening exams. Most donations raised to fight breast cancer are typically used for cancer research, so providing funds to women for early breast screening exams provides an impactful contribution to fight breast cancer at a local community level. Early detection of breast cancer is one of the most important ways to battle the disease.

This year, the Sporting club threw-out a challenge to all their teams, and held contests for most donations and goals scored (funds collected through a goal-a-thon or straight donations).

 2011 Goals for a Cure Awards

• Most Donations raised by a team: $3,003 by Santa Clara Sporting 95 Boys White - prize: club funds one additional tournament
• 2nd Place Donations raised by a team: $2,351 raised by Santa Clara Sporting 98 Boys White - prize: pizza party
• 3rd Place Donations raised by a team: $1,994 raised by Santa Clara Sporting 94 Boys - prize: practice t-shirt
• GFaC Raffle Winner: Monica Wahler  Prize: $100 Sporting gift card
• Most Goals Scored: Santa Clara Sporting 93 Boys  Prize: customized 2011 Goals for a Cure t-shirts

GOALS FOR A CURE 2011

1. $3,003.00 Santa Clara Sporting 95B White
2. $2,351.00 Santa Clara Sporting 98B White
3. $1,994.00 Santa Clara Sporting 94B Green
4. $1,935.00 -98B Black
5. $1,930.00 -01B Black
6. $1,710.00 -Men’s Team
7. $1,668.11 -01G Green
8. $1,623.60 -97G Green
9. $1,155.00 -02G Green
10. $1,090.00 -98G Green
11. $1,083.00 -93B Green
12. $1,057.00 -93G Green
13. $998.00 -97B Green
14. $779.00 -98G White
15. $693.13 -99G White
16. $689.85 -99G Green
17. $685.00 -01B Green
18. $673.00 -99B Green
19. $665 -00B Green
20. $376.28 -97G White
21. $339.05 -02G White
22. $332.00 -00G Green
23. $300.00 -92B Green
24. $285.00 -01B White
25. $267.50 -02B Green
26. $266.50 -02B White
27. $225.00 -99B White
28. $100.00 -00G White
29. $100.00 -95G Green
30. $80.00 -98B Green
31. $50.00 -96B Black
32. $30.00 -99G Black
33. $15.00 -95B Green
34. $50.00 -Online donations
35. $4.00 -Other
36. $0- 00B White
37. $0 - 99B Black
38. $0 - 96B Green
39. $0 - 95G White

September 28, 2011

The Santa Clara Sporting ’00 Girls Green Team won the Ajax United Tournament last weekend in Ripon, CA.  The team scored 18 goals and gave up 5 goals to bring home the championship cup after enduring some pretty intense heat out in the central valley. The girls played a solid four games with numerous players scoring and assiting goals.  Sporting opened the tournament on Saturday with an easy 6-1 victory to defeat the Ajax United Premier 01 team, then they won their second game against the Ajax United 02 team with a 6-2 score. On Sunday, they beat the Ceres Earthquakes team 4-0 to earn a spot in the championship game, and the ran away from the COSC 00GR team and won the Finals in a 5-0 score. The team is looking forward to their next tournemant over the Halloween weekend. Congratulations to the players, coaches and families!

December 12, 2011

The Santa Clara Sporting ’99 Boys Green team won the 2011 CYSA District II Cup and the NorCal Premier League Cross-Regional Playoffs during the month of November.

On November 19th-20th Sporting 99B Green became the 2011 CYSA District II Cup Champions, winning against Milpitas Platanitios (3-0), SF Mission Green(6-1), and Alpine Strikers (5-1) to advance to the final where the team faced Burlingame Gold. The championship game was 0-0 through two overtime periods, and Sporting pulled out the win in penalty kicks. 

The Sporting ’99 Green boys are also Champions of NorCalPremier League Cross-Regional Playoffs. The top teams in each District of NorCal Premier Spring League competed against each other. Sporting beat Cal Odyssey 6-1 in the Quarterfinals. In the Semifinals, Sporting had their toughest game and battled against San JuanLightning to win 2-1. Then Sporting took the Championship by winning 4-1 against the Stockton Monarchs on December 3rd.

Congratulations to the players and coaches!

November 28, 2011

The Santa Clara Sporting 93 Boys Team added another championship title to their trophy room when they won the 2011 College Surf Cup in the U18 Mens Super Group last weekend in San Diego. The Sporting 93s went undefeated in bracket play with a 2-2 tie against the Futega Camp Elite team from Guatemala, then defeated the Patedores Team 1-0 and the Soreno 94 White team 2-0.  Sunday morning the team defeated the Davis Legacy 94 Team 2-0 in the U18 semi-final match, then Santa Clara won the championship game 2-0 against the F.C. Golden State Premier team from Southern California.

The '93 Boys team is ranked #4 in the US, #1 in Region IV and #1 in California by GotSoccer.com, and their major accomplishments include three consecutive Cal-North State Cup titles and a Dallas Cup championship.

The Santa Clara Sporting will present the club's 2011 Goals for a Cure donation to El Camino Hospital on February 10th at 7pm at the Santa Clara Sporting Bingo Hall located at 282 Brokaw Road in Santa Clara. The Santa Clara Sporting '95Boys White Team and Cecilia Hinz will make the $30,000 check donation presentation to El Camino Hospital. The Sporting '95 Boys White team raised the most donations as a team, and Cecilia raised the most donation as an individual soccer player.