Dear Michelle Romero...

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justified

SILVER ELITE
You used your influence to turn the Man City tournament into a tournament that favors clubs that support your own personal financial success at the expense of good soccer and fair play. Anything now related to Surf Cup is just another way for you to make more money and gain more influence in a corrupt soccer culture that you helped create.

If you were in the movie business, you’d be Harvey Weinstein. If you were a politician, you’d be Kim Jong Un.

You operate in the shadows. DOCs wait on your phone calls because their season depends on your call. You are nothing more than a scheduler who found a way to make bucketloads of cash by exposing a gap in the soccer system in Southern California. Where US soccer could not impose rules or take ownership, like a cockroach you crept in a found a way to exploit the system and hide behind popular names like the SCDSL, demanding high fees from clubs just to schedule games at mainly crappy locations at the worst times of day. You even managed to get the worst referees and make the parents pay for them, but of course you just followed another popular model. And oh yeah, are you behind the Discovery League? DOCs speak confidently of how their higher level teams will play EVERY WEEKEND in the fall at NORCO, for $10 a day for parking, at the hottest fields in southern California, driving at least another 20-40 miles each way. How much of that $10 that all of us parents paid for parking lines your pockets? How many kids will be over playing soccer after week 6 of the Discover League, when the parents are done spending their entire day in traffic, to the armpit of this planet, to play one normal season game?

As for Man City, you ruined it. Look at some of the scorelines and clubs attending. YOU ALLOWED THE LOWEST RANKING DA TEAMS to play against the best. LAFC and Man City shouldn’t be scoring 9 goals at a tournament of this caliber. How can you call this tournament credible? How much did these DA teams from outside southern California pay you, or even the local teams WHO HAVE NOT SHOWN UP THIS YEAR IN THE STANDINGS when you had teams close by, ranked high in the standings, that you flat out denied for no reason? There were teams that deserved to be there, signed up on time, and you FLAT OUT DENIED THEM ENTRY because of your own personal feelings about certain organizations. This is the very definition of corruption.

I just want to ask. Are you able to sleep at night in beds made of piles of $? Is it a little lumpy?
 
justified said:
If you were in the movie business, you’d be Harvey Weinstein. If you were a politician, you’d be Kim Jong Un.

You even managed to get the worst refs

like a cockroach you crept in a found a way to exploit the system

Discovery League? DOCs speak confidently of how their higher level teams will play EVERY WEEKEND in the fall at NORCO, ....the armpit of this planet,
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Now this is not right. I take great issue with your post. Who do you think you are comparing Romero to Harvey who is having his worst day yet, Kim and cockroaches?

Trust me when I say that she does not pick the worst refs like it is a conspiracy or that she is trying to be cheap like Rebels did not last years with Rebels Cup. There are good and bad refs like
all leagues and the associations used are the better ones.

And if you think Norco is the armpit of the world you need to get out more. Have you been to Lancaster in 50mph winds?

Also in your haste to judge Romero you forgot about the lack of SCDSL schedules last year. She could have just released schedules for the first few weeks but instead the blame was put on clubs for not having Fields, an issue which she should have vetted long before August.

Otherwise your post is right on. But maybe you need a little history lesson on who created this monster. It rhymes with turf.

And I still would like to know why no Albion teams? Seems odd that their boys teams are not playing.
 
justified said:
You used your influence to turn the Man City tournament into a tournament that favors clubs that support your own personal financial success at the expense of good soccer and fair play. Anything now related to Surf Cup is just another way for you to make more money and gain more influence in a corrupt soccer culture that you helped create.

If you were in the movie business, you’d be Harvey Weinstein. If you were a politician, you’d be Kim Jong Un.

You operate in the shadows. DOCs wait on your phone calls because their season depends on your call. You are nothing more than a scheduler who found a way to make bucketloads of cash by exposing a gap in the soccer system in Southern California. Where US soccer could not impose rules or take ownership, like a cockroach you crept in a found a way to exploit the system and hide behind popular names like the SCDSL, demanding high fees from clubs just to schedule games at mainly crappy locations at the worst times of day. You even managed to get the worst referees and make the parents pay for them, but of course you just followed another popular model. And oh yeah, are you behind the Discovery League? DOCs speak confidently of how their higher level teams will play EVERY WEEKEND in the fall at NORCO, for $10 a day for parking, at the hottest fields in southern California, driving at least another 20-40 miles each way. How much of that $10 that all of us parents paid for parking lines your pockets? How many kids will be over playing soccer after week 6 of the Discover League, when the parents are done spending their entire day in traffic, to the armpit of this planet, to play one normal season game?

As for Man City, you ruined it. Look at some of the scorelines and clubs attending. YOU ALLOWED THE LOWEST RANKING DA TEAMS to play against the best. LAFC and Man City shouldn’t be scoring 9 goals at a tournament of this caliber. How can you call this tournament credible? How much did these DA teams from outside southern California pay you, or even the local teams WHO HAVE NOT SHOWN UP THIS YEAR IN THE STANDINGS when you had teams close by, ranked high in the standings, that you flat out denied for no reason? There were teams that deserved to be there, signed up on time, and you FLAT OUT DENIED THEM ENTRY because of your own personal feelings about certain organizations. This is the very definition of corruption.

I just want to ask. Are you able to sleep at night in beds made of piles of $? Is it a little lumpy?
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If you are going to create an Alt ID to start blasting away at people, why create the account on Monday, then wait 4 days to start posting? Come on "DP," we know it's you.
 
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MyDaughtersAKeeper said:
If you are going to create an Alt ID to start blasting away at people, why create the account on Monday, then wait 4 days to start posting? Come on "David," we know it's you.
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Please stick with initials. It makes it easier to figure out who you are referring to.
 
broshark said:
Is it possible Albion just didn't apply?
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It is possible but don’t you think it is odd especially given the number of teams they have and the number of teams at last year’s tournament? I don’t see the boys teams at other tournaments this weekend so either they decided not to apply or they thought that they would get in and did not. I’ll have to ask this weekend.
 
Frank said:
I heard some clubs are boycotting the Surf tournaments. Maybe Albion is one of them.
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Why would clubs boycott Surf tournaments? That is just dumb especially for the older players trying to get recruited. The Surf Cup and Man City tournaments provide a great opportunity to be seen by numerous college coaches.
 
coachsamy said:
A close competitor to the Tudela and Soltilo rants for the most idiotic thread.
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@coachsamy, I don’t know who you are the coach of, but your criticism of any “rant” is accusing those of what you are guilty of. Anytime someone says something, you always side with the person with the most power and influence and make someone feel bad for speaking up about something they’ve experienced. That is not a rant, that is criticism. You try to silence people on this forum by making what they say unimportant because you somehow own the moral high ground on what is right and wrong? If you are a coach, do you throw your players under the bus too when they don’t listen to your BS? Coaches and clubs hold power over kids, that needs to be kept in check. Look at yourself in the mirror.
 
Surfref said:
Explain...
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Whoever is bright enough to boycott SCS tournaments believes that they would hurt Surf financially. If it is Albion or another big club with the connections for exposition, it shouldn't really matter at least for the club standpoint (Kids miss on the experience of playing outside competition, and some different quality matchups). Now if smaller clubs are pulling such stunt, they need SCS tournaments to build their own prestige, so they are doing themselves a disservice!
 
justified said:
@coachsamy, I don’t know who you are the coach of, but your criticism of any “rant” is accusing those of what you are guilty of. Anytime someone says something, you always side with the person with the most power and influence and make someone feel bad for speaking up about something they’ve experienced. That is not a rant, that is criticism. You try to silence people on this forum by making what they say unimportant because you somehow own the moral high ground on what is right and wrong? If you are a coach, do you throw your players under the bus too when they don’t listen to your BS? Coaches and clubs hold power over kids, that needs to be kept in check. Look at yourself in the mirror.
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Quite a deep post there @justified ...

You created your account on Monday, come swinging for the fences and then come calling out people. I don't know who you are and what almighty club you represent that you are bashing SCS based on what I'll assume that your kid's team didn't get accepted into Man City Cup.

I don't own any moral grounds nor I'm sitting on a high horse (Well Maybe). I haven't coach for years now nor care to go back. I don't throw kids under the bus as that is counterproductive to their learning experience nor its part of my leadership and accountability skills acquired during my former full time career. So I'm missing your point about coaches and clubs being kept in check as part of your issue.

Lastly regardless of whether is a rant, criticism or simply a temper tantrum, your post along with the other 2 are simply STUPID! Do you want to be taken seriously, use your real handle!
 
coachsamy said:
Whoever is bright enough to boycott SCS tournaments believes that they would hurt Surf financially. If it is Albion or another big club with the connections for exposition, it shouldn't really matter at least for the club standpoint (Kids miss on the experience of playing outside competition, and some different quality matchups). Now if smaller clubs are pulling such stunt, they need SCS tournaments to build their own prestige, so they are doing themselves a disservice!
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If clubs boycott SCS tournaments than SCS will just fill those spots with other clubs/teams. There are more teams applying than SCS can accept.
 
Frank said:
I heard some clubs are boycotting the Surf tournaments. Maybe Albion is one of them.
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Based on some ramblings I heard, I thought they were hinting at a boycott. However, nothing I would bet money on.
If their is a boycott, and if Albion is part of this, I think a bigger impression would have been made if they do not allow Surf to be part of the 03 DPL pilot program, which I think they are going to be a part of??? Correct me if I am wrong.

Also a boycott might work if the goal is to get college coaches to spend the bulk of their time at another tournament.
 
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