LA Surf is born

The better way to look at these "Surf" affiliation/merger announcements is to understand that the "Surf" name has national recognition through the Surf Cup. Also appreciate that the Surf Cup and the Surf Soccer programs are two seperate companies.

  1. "Surf Soccer Club" is owned by San Dieguito Surf Soccer Club (Non-Profit Corp - Jeremy McDonald is the President); and,
  2. "Surf Cup," is owned by Surf Cup Sports, LLC (A For-Profit / Rob Haskell is the Manager).
The two entities are seperate, but share the "Surf" brand as part of an agreement that was entered into years ago. The Surf Cup affiliates with Surf Soccer Club from a sanctioning point of view, but all the profits flow to the LLC's members and not the club.

San Dieguito Surf Soccer Club, does two kinds of deals with clubs:
  1. "Merger" - Where the club is consumed/folded into the corporate non-profit known as "San Dieguito Surf Soccer Club." The players at the merged clubs are playing for San Diego Surf under either the OC Surf (and now) the LA Surf region. These players can be "club passed" back and forth between regions as they are all playing for essentially the same Club.

  2. "Affiliate" License deal where the club remain independently operated from both a DOC and corporate point of view. These clubs are free to rebrand as another club down the road and simply pay a license fee, which is the case with the other 16 Surf National Affiliates (e.g. Murrieta Surf, SGV Surf, Hawaii Surf, etc., etc.) These players cannot be club passed back and forth, as they are playing for a different company/club.
In the case of OC Surf and LA Surf, a "merger" was announced that tells us these clubs are now simply a regional presence of San Diego Surf, thus subject to to the management and oversight of the San Dieguito Surf Soccer Club.

Its all a bit confusing, which is why it works. The Surf brand can open doors and makes a club more marketable over Bob's Soccer Club, which is why clubs enter into these license deals.
 
Just to clarify. During League players can be "club passed," which is not the same as "Guest" playing. During the Summer Tournament season is when we see "guest" playing mostly occur. Guest players can come from anywhere. Thus, all the Surf Affiliates could get together with the SD/OC/LA Surf and form an all-star team of guest players if they so wanted. All out there with their respective XYZ Surf gear. It might be kinda interesting to see that.

Full Disclosure: My son plays for a Surf Affiliate.
 
Just to clarify. During League players can be "club passed," which is not the same as "Guest" playing. During the Summer Tournament season is when we see "guest" playing mostly occur. Guest players can come from anywhere. Thus, all the Surf Affiliates could get together with the SD/OC/LA Surf and form an all-star team of guest players if they so wanted. All out there with their respective XYZ Surf gear. It might be kinda interesting to see that.

Full Disclosure: My son plays for a Surf Affiliate.
Yes you are correct!
 
Like I said; it is an evolutionary step that is well planned and thoughtfully executed. The coaches were confronted with a challenge to get the players (and coaches) to the next level. This was determined (after careful strategy) as the long term solution, there will be announcements forthcoming, watch this space...
Does your club fee remain the same?
Will your club get to keep its independence and development philosophy which many have praised?
Will your team get to keep the coach your kid thrives under and is happy to play for?

If the answer is yes to these questions, then it's business as usual. If there is indeed a new pathway to something else, great. If not, you lose nothing.

Personally it's a deal breaker for me if they make me buy new practice socks :). J/K.

Best of luck.
 
Does your club fee remain the same?
Will your club get to keep its independence and development philosophy which many have praised?
Will your team get to keep the coach your kid thrives under and is happy to play for?

If the answer is yes to these questions, then it's business as usual. If there is indeed a new pathway to something else, great. If not, you lose nothing.

Personally it's a deal breaker for me if they make me buy new practice socks :). J/K.

Best of luck.

Thanks, the answer is yes to all 3. The socks are free to boot! ;) Best regards...
 
I think the word is "spawned."

This is probably not appropriate for work or children. "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is the funniest show on television. There is an episode where Danny DeVito is "born" from a couch. Make sure to wear headphones and watch in a room that you can laugh out-loud in complete disgust.
Is this how LA Surf has arrived in our world?
Enjoy:
 
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Its always sunny is the best show period " Who Pooped the bed " is also a funny episode. So Underrated
 
Pomona Surf?
Doesn’t seem like this club is located in LA.

LA County

From the press release and the buzz on this thread it seems the deal is centered around Socal Academy girls program and their DOC is now the LA Surf DOC. Those teams train in San Marino which is in LA county and less than 5 miles outside of LA city limits so I'd argue Los Angeles is an accurate moniker. Pomona is about 40 miles outside of LA city limits. The formerly Soltilo boys will train there. It's less accurate for them, but as Mr D says, still in LA County.

Onto more important matters, I second recommending Always Sunny "who pooped the bed!"
 
I heard that Surf Point Loma (previously Riptide) had a great turnout for younger tryouts this year. They supposedly had about 5x the normal number of players. The Surf brand attracts the parents.
 
I heard that Surf Point Loma (previously Riptide) had a great turnout for younger tryouts this year. They supposedly had about 5x the normal number of players. The Surf brand attracts the parents.
So has Albion made any moves to counter Surf moving next door? I know that this was touched on a little somewhere in the forum.
 
Only LA surf I know can be found at http://swellmagnet.com/ which is run by a parent who's kids play soccer locally

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