The Santa Clara Weekly Newspaper wrote a nice article about our Goals for a Cure Campaign. Check it out!

Santa Clara Sporting alumni, Kelsey Foo recently returned from Europe after traveling with the ’93 Region IV ODP Team. The U17 girls team was led by head coach Jerry Smith, who is also the head coach of the womens soccer program at Santa Clara University. They spent a week from February 27th to March 7th on the road playing international soccer games in Portugal and Spain, and got the chance to watch three games at the 2010 Algarve Cup. Here is a short interview with Kelsey.

Santa Clara Sporting’s own Sebastian Lleget who now plays in the West Ham United Academy Team has been progressing so quickly, that he may get pulled into the first team and play in the English Premier League before the year ends. Read the story at ESPN Sports.

The Santa Clara Sporting Club donated $20,000 tonight to the El Camino Hospital Foundation to provide free mammograms to women who need financial support to receive breast screening exams. Lindsay Greensweig, Interim President of the El Camino Hospital Foundation attended the event to receive the check from Santa Clara Sporting.

Santa Clara Sporting raised $20,000 during the 2009 Goals for a Cure Campaign. The club will present a check in the amount of $20,000 to Lindsay Greenweig, President of El Camino Hospital Foundation.  Come and join us at the Sporting Bingo Hall located at 282 Brokaw Road in Santa Clara.

The Santa Clara Sporting ’96 White Team recently rubbed shoulders with Luis "El Matador" Hernandez, the third highest goal scoring striker for the Mexican National Team while they were playing indoor soccer this winter.

The Santa Clara Sporting ’97 Girls Green Team wrote themselves into the club’s history books today by winning the 2010 CYSA State Cup Championship, and becoming the first girls team to ever win the Cal-North title for Santa Clara Sporting!  The Sporting ’97 Girls won the U12 Girls State title with a 5-0 victory over the Modesto Ajax United Team. The girls dominated 

The Santa Clara Sporting Club is proud to announce that the club raised $20,000 last October during their 2009 Goals-for-a-Cure Campaign. Special recognition goes out to the Santa Clara Sporting ’93 Girls White Team led by Jim Goularte and Cynthia Bates-Brown which raised $3,516 to fight breast cancer.

The Santa Clara Sporting 97 Girls survived torrential rain storms and a superbe field of nationally ranked teams in Southern California to bring home the 2010 Copa Real Nike Cup trophy on Sunday, January 18th.  On Saturday, the U12 Sporting girls tied Slammers FC (ranked #10 in US) 0-0 in a tough battle, then pounded three goals into their opponents net and defeated the Irvine Strikers 3-0.  On Sunday, they tied the host team Real So Cal White Team

The Santa Clara Sporting ’97 Girls (U12) Green Team were looking to shake off some rust at the Modesto Ajax Winter Invitational after their three week break following the NorCal State Cup. The girls came out a little flat on Saturday morning and had to come back to win 2 -1 over the Cal Cougars.

Congratulations to the Santa Clara Sporting ’98 Boys Green Team for winning the 2009-10 NorCal Premier State Cup in the U11 Boys Platinum Division. The team started off the tournament with three bracket games; they tied the Bay Oaks RR ’98 Team 1-1, beat the Heat Team 3-2, and

Congratulations to the following Santa Clara Sporting players who were selected to the 2009-10 Cal-North State ODP Teams last month. These players endured a two weekend tryout in Morgan Hill and Ripon, and competed against 100-125 other players to make the selection to the State Team roster.

• 1997 Team - Fiona Sequeira
  1996 Team - Anthony Macias and Alec Prusa
• 1995 Team - Lyndon Gooch and Ryan Foo
• 1994 Team - James Pierce
• 1993 Team - Sarah Benett, Ana Maria Sola, Haley Hughes, Madison Salom and Zarette Munoz

Congratulations to Jonathan Salcedo from the ’92 Sporting Boys Team for getting selected to the 2009 Disney Showcase All-Star Team. Jonathan will travel to London, England to train at the Chelsea Football Club Academy and compete against some top international academy teams in 2010.

Congratulations to the Santa Clara Sporting ’99 Boys Green Team for winning the 2009-10 CYSA Cal-North State Cup Championship last weekend on December 20th. The team finished the last event of the 2009 Season winning the boys U10 CYSA State Cup in Livermoore. The team went undefeated

As the Quarter-finals of the  Under 11 NorCal State Cup(s) week-end approaches, many returning players and adults will remember the sad and tragic news last year - at about this time - concerning the accident that took the life of Jonathan - a young Santa Clara Sporting Under 10 player....
 

The West Ham United International Academy has announced the launch of a North American Partner Club programme with partnerships agreed with some of the United States and Canada’s top youth football clubs, and Santa Clara Sporting was named to this elite program.