I wonder when sharks parents will hear about this.
Carlsbad Surf Soccer club incoming! Time to start a new thread?
West Coast/Surf OC
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Carlsbad Surf Soccer club incoming! Time to start a new thread?
Please explain. Is it a done deal? Who will all those anti-Surf Sharks parents hate on now?
Didn't say they were merging. It said partnership. So its not clear at all.
My guess is that its a takeover and that OCSurf probably sits peer to SD Surf SC, since they own them too under the new structure. Merging would imply that WC somehow now runs Surf Cup Sports jointly, which probably is not the case.
So DA will have 2 Galaxy teams (LAG and LAGSD) and 2 Surf Teams (Surf and Surf OC). ECNL will also have 2 Surf teams if they take over DMCV or will ECNL force them to combine the ECNL teams leaving an opening for another CLUB?
Multi Sport
DA
Legends..
"Surf Cup Sports also manages the Surf brand and provides operational support to Surf clubs as well as the benefits of broader relationships with partners that include Nike, Manchester City FC, Soccer.com and many others."
I don't have any particular insight, but if the above is accurate and I'm reading into it correctly, it would seem to be more of a license/franchise of the Surf Brand and some "operational support" in exchange for some sort of consideration ($$$).
I don't have any particular insight, but if the above is accurate and I'm reading into it correctly, it would seem to be more of a license/franchise of the Surf Brand and some "operational support" in exchange for some sort of consideration ($$$).
Yep. Who needs SCDSL or State Cup?
Just have a Surf league, a Galaxy league, a Strikers and a Slammers League. Set up tournaments among the equally weighted teams from each club.
Charge everyone the same money as now, but reduce all of your costs.
jpeter
PREMIER
Surf West Coast Cup labor day'ish tournament coming soon.... instead of the $1.9k fee we get for Surf cup, reduced to 1.7k or only about $1k$ more than West Coast Classic was.
Futbol Boss
BRONZE
OC Surf will never give their tournament away !! Largest two day soccer tournament in the United States and directed by two fantastic people !! Love helping them with their event each year.
Futbol Boss
BRONZE
I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case. WC pays their staff better then we all get paid in the neiborhood and are probably financially better off then most clubs. I don't think a non-profit club can be bought !!
Futbol Boss
BRONZE
Something tells me that OC Surf will be the power house club to work for starting this next season !! Who wouldn't want their child to be part of a club that has all of the necessary pathways for the future growth in the game of soccer.
Futbol Boss
BRONZE
The good part about this one is that its not a merger but a partnership with all of the right things needed to build a power house program.
I wish every club success but now I feel myself looking for a change and join OC Surf both as a players parent and maybe a coach as well.
This narrative is false. Anything can be bought. The process through which requires more detail than a blog can provide. However all “clubs” are absorbed under the umbrella that is the parent company and run under those guidelines and standards. Essentially making all a franchise of the the parent club Surf. Even though staff is absorbed they agree to abide by the parents standards. Thus the service fee and advertising fees, etc are paid from the franchise to the franchor in exchange for use of the overall brand and it’s so called benefits. These fees are the real deal for the parent club. The only ones that actually benefit are the parent, the club DOC, and TD. The losers are the parents, kids, and Soccer community as a whole.
Futbol Boss
BRONZE
Doesn't the Galaxy in San Diego have DA status just like the LA Galaxy? I don't think this will cause any kind of a problem and I'm sure the entire group involved with the decision making of this partnership already got pre-approval from all leagues. Congrats to both SD Surf and OC Surf !!
Congrats you just posted two of the dumbest things I’ve read this week. Your congrats for less
Competition and the further monopoly of youth soccer is either naive or complicit. The fact that they got the approval to do this is the Fu..... problem. The “pathway to success” that you mention as a good thing is nothing more than the PR terminology used to manipulate parents into buying into the notion that the only metric of being a successful soccer player is through US Soccer and it’s play to play club model, and it’s narrow definition of success.
Futbol Boss
BRONZE
If I was one of the smaller Surf clubs in OC, I would love to be able to come in under a group that has the pathway for both the DA and ECNL on both the girls and boys side. Doesn't mean they need to tell you how to run your particular program. But a good way to recruit players knowing they have the ability to join a DA or ECNL team.
Futbol Boss
BRONZE
I am a coach for one of those clubs that would love to be able to give players an option within my club, rather then the Slammers, Blues, OC Surf or Strikers recruiting my players to their organizations.
Than I feel your pain. However the option should be that you develope your players and that their opportunities are the same as those within a bigger club, because US Soccer equally values all players and clubs. Your players should not be forced are feel they have to move tonhave a better chance. The conglomerates who consume competition and devalue your work are not a thing to admire.
I guess they give Kool Aid to the coaches too or Thunderbolt has another alias.