The following girls teams finished as Champions in the Fullerton Classic: U12 Legends Black coached by Marco Lopez, U14 Legends and U15 Legends (both playing up a year) coached by Josh Hodges. The U9 girls coached by Chris Ramos finished as finalists. Click continue for more Championship photos!

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Coach Matt Evans surely enjoyed the Pegasus Cup - both his U9 Boys and U12 Girls won the Championship. In addition, Coach Cesar Gutierrez’s U10 boys and coach Marco Lopez’s U15 Girls Black collected another trophy. Click below for more championship photos.

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Legends FC is proud to send six teams to one of the nation’s most prestigious youth soccer tournaments - SURF CUP, held each year at the polo fields in Del Mar, just north of San Diego.

The high school weekend is particularly exciting as 100+ college coaches  from across the nation, typically arrive to scout the players. U17s: Be sure to update college coaches on your game schedule.

Congratulations and good-luck to the Boys U10 (Jose Botello), Boys U11 (Cesar Gutierrez), Boys U13 (Jose Alcantar), Boys U17 (Jerry Laterza), Girls U12 (Josh Hodges), Girls U17 (Josh Hodges).

 

Congratulations to the U14 Boys Team coached by Ish Castellanos and managed by Jeff Sakiri.

The U14s shut-out Corinthians 1-0 in the final on Sunday, July 6. The team will play silver in league playing beginning this fall.

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The Legends FC U13 Boys Black allowed just one goal against, throughout the entire tournament. They played Slammers North in the final, a team which had previously beaten them in league play. The U13 Boys are coached by Hector Alcantar.

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On July 12-13, 2008 two members of the World Champions ’86 team of ARGENTINA (Sergio Batista & Jose Luis Brown) visit the southland for a soccer symposium hosted by Legends FC. 

Both of these coaches are responsible for ALL OF THE YOUTH ARGENTINA NATIONAL TEAMS and are heading the Sub-23 Argentina National Team that will compete in the Beijing Olympics this summer defending the Gold Medal obtained in Athens only 4 years ago.  Both of them currently coach the likes of Messi, Aguero, Tevez and the rest of the jewels of their National Team.

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The U16 Boys (next year’s U17s) coached by Jerry Laterza, had a sizzling weekend at US Club Soccer Regionals, June 21-24 in San Bernadino, CA. 

The team allowed just 2 goals in 5 matches, and shut-out Crusaders CSC 2-0 in the U16 Boys Super Group Championship.

A Regional Championship qualifies teams to compete in US Club Soccer’s National Cup. The 2008 National Cup VII FInals is held July 26-29 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

The U12 Boys coached by Hector Alcantar, advanced all the way to the championship match, losing 1-3 to West Coast FC.  The U16 Girls coached by Josh Hodges, bowed out in the quarter-finals, going down against Real So Cal, a team they had both beaten and tied in league play.  Cal South teams dominated play, and brought home the most championships (10),  followed by Cal North (3), Arizona (2), and Colorado (1).

After a warm-up championship at the Legends Classic, the U12 boys head off to Hawaii, to compete in US Youth Soccer’s Far West Regional Championships.  They will play their preliminary matches against WSM Barca (OR), Downtown LVSC Gold (NV), and the Tuzos Pachuca 96 (AZ).

The team is pictured above at the Legends Classic with the bronze U12 boys team. (They played each other in the final.) Both teams are coached by Hector Alcantar.

U16 Girls coached by Josh Hodges, begin their regional play on Monday, June 16th in Honolulu. Their first 3 matches are preliminaries, one per day Monday through Wednesday.

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The latest in So Cal club soccer news, now comes to us via internet radio, streaming live on Wednesday nights at 7:55 Pacific time. The Soccer Radio show is hosted by local, John Ventura. Click on the website for further details and watch for a short clip of Wednesday’s archived show.

http://bbsradio.com/soccerradio/

 

Pack your bags! The Legends FC U14 girls are invited to the largest international youth football tournament in the world - NIKE sponsored - Manchester United Premier Cup. The Premier Cup involves over 6,000 teams from 40 countries and is open to only the very top U14/15 teams. Legends FC congratulates Coach Brad Otto and the U14 girls as they prepare for this prestigious competition...

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Congratulations and welcome to the U10 Boys team coached by Cesar Gutierrez.  The boys topped Aztecs FC 4-1 in the championship match, scoring 18 goals for and 5 against in their State Cup run.

The team was also Coast League Champs.

Congratulations to: Meilessah Rangel, Emily Castellano,  Danielle Alvarez, and Lizette Luna on their selection to the "95" ODP Player Pool.

Out of the approximate 4,000 players in this age group only 75 were invited to the ODP Academy Training Weekends, held March 15-16 & 22-23... 

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The U13 State Cup Final, pitted Glendora FC Red U13 against league rival, Arsenal White. After eight games in five days of favorable soccer weather, the  Final was played on a cold, wet and windy day in Lancaster...

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A number of players have been involved in the ODP State, Regional and National Team programs. Kelsey Nicasio attended the ODP 92-94 player camp February 3rd-6th at Cocoa Expo in Cocoa, Florida. 

Roughly 300 players were invited, 100 from the ’92s and a combined 200 from the 93-94’s...

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The U16 Boys Premier team is in Dallas this week, competing in the prestigious Dr. Pepper Dallas Cup. Last year the boys carried off the U15 Championship, beating out a very outstanding team from Frankfurt, Germany. Read full story...

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