This affiliation makes little sense. S&S is a small niche club in the South Bay. It attracts local players who really are casual club players (IMO). They also do not attract higher level players or hold onto them. And, S&S is such a local based club they are able to get priority on accessing the fields in Manhattan Beach. Will this change now being an affiliate? The city and school district may now look differently at them.
They were a very tough team when my dd played them in the youngers. I believe S & S had three future YNT players on the team we played. No way any other local niche club in the country can brag about that kind of success. It's like a nice boutique kind of country club of soccer parents. They got raided (poached) big time from Tad's Blues team, and I believe Beach got some of their players.
They were gone before they hit 12 years of age and that was over 10 years ago. S&S works out of an area that has a massive talent pool and may get those players initially.
Gone before they were 11 and yes, it was 11 years ago. Wow, time sure has gone fast. That was a hot club, as were the Original Carlsbad Lightning.
It seems they are definitely making a run at the big dogs. The press release says, "City SC South Bay becomes the 11th City SC location" so whatever that means.
This link appears to be out of date but has some of the City Affiliates.
wearecitysc.com
Its probably a lot less overhead for club to just pay another more well known club to use their marketing, etc.
If this was to happen in GA Southwest, there would be 4 City SC teams.
I heard different.
If LA Surf became CITY SC Los Angeles this would mean theres 3 MLSN teams under the CTY SC umbrella.
I should have said ‘the City teams in the IE’ when I was writing about the boys teams being less strong. The Carlsbad/SM boys side is pretty solid, from what I’ve seen.
I'm not surprised, but I haven't been following the boys so I have no insight. The reason why I'm not surprised is because last summer I went to a littles boys + girls tournament and it seemed like City had 4-6 boys teams in each age group while other clubs has 1 or maybe 2. It wasn't like that 10 years ago. I have no proof other than my general observations but I'd guess this is happening because of MLSN access with the olders.
To be able to do what they've done without being in ECNL is impressive
City SC Temecula/Menifee/lake Elsinore had more than double the number of teams than MSA.
