San Diego Surf Soccer Club is an American youth

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

club based in

San Diego County, California San Diego County (), officially the County of San Diego, is a county (United States), county in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of California, north to its Mexico-United States border, border with Mexico. As of the 2020 United States Cen ...

. It is a member of the

Elite Clubs National League The Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) is a national youth soccer developmental league in the United States. It was founded in 2009 as a girls' league and added a boys' league in 2017. Competition format The ECNL is divided by age groups from U- ...

(ECNL).

History

San Diego Surf Soccer Club was founded in 1977. According to itself, it is the oldest competitive youth

club in the

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area. As of November 2022, Surf has won 12 national championships, 29 regional championships, and over 74 state championships. On August 10, 2021, San Diego Surf SC was named the first-ever

(ECNL) Boys Overall Club Champion. On November 15, 2022, it was announced that the club would join the

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in the 2023 season. San Diego Surf SC was again named ECNL Boys Overall Club Champion in 2023.

Lawsuit

In 2021, Girls Director of Coaching Rob Becerra was accused of sexual harassment during his employment with San Diego Surf SC, which led to a lawsuit against the club. Becerra was accused of harassing one of his employees, Karley Nelson, who joined the club in 2020. He allegedly told Nelson that she could "sleep with any of the guys in that clubhouse" and made repeated comments about her body. Additionally, the suit alleged that Becerra touched Nelson multiple times. Nelson was told that Becerra would be removed at the end of the season for poor performance, but to her knowledge, he was not reprimanded for the allegations of sexual harassment. Another woman who coached for the club alleged that Becerra had directed sexist and homophobic jokes at her.

Notable people

Coaches

* Carlos Alvarez * Rob Becerra * Billy Garton *

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Nelson Pizarro Nelson Pizarro (born July 8, 1985) is an American soccer player who is currently a coach for San Diego Surf SC. Career College and amateur Pizarro played college soccer for Lincoln Memorial University. His style of attacking football was ador ...

Players

Corey Baird Corey Jacob Baird (born January 30, 1996) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a winger for Major League Soccer club FC Cincinnati. Career Youth Baird, from Escondido, California, 20 miles from San Diego, began his yout ...

Melanie Barcenas Melanie Magali Barcenas (born October 30, 2007) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for San Diego Wave FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She was the youngest player in the NWSL when she was signed at th ...

* Miguel Berry * Jordyn Bugg *

Servando Carrasco Servando Carrasco (born August 13, 1988) is an American former professional association football, soccer player who played as a Midfielder#Defensive midfielder, defensive midfielder. Career Carrasco spent his childhood living in Tijuana, Mexico ...

Grayson Dettoni Grayson Winter Dettoni (born June 29, 2005) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Swiss Super League club Grasshopper, on loan from Regionalliga Bayern club Bayern Munich II. Early life Dettoni was born in Ma ...

* Duran Ferree * Mia Fishel *

Xavi Gnaulati Xavi Milad Gnaulati (born January 22, 2005) is an American soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Monterey Bay FC. Early career Xavi Gnaulati was born and raised in San Diego County, California, playing youth soccer for San Diego Surf and ...

* Jacob Jackson *

Catarina Macario Catarina Cantanhede Melônio Macário (; born October 4, 1999) is a professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Women's Super League club Chelsea. Born in Brazil, she plays for the United States national team. Macari ...

* Simon Mršić * Evan Rotundo * Sebastian Soto * Luca de la Torre

References

External links

Official websiteDallas 11B Soccer Summaries
Soccer clubs in San Diego 1977 establishments in California Youth soccer in the United States Association football clubs established in 1977 Elite Clubs National League teams {{California-footyclub-stub