U.S. Soccer (federation release)
USYS State Associations voted Aug. 29 to integrate with U.S. Soccer, starting a two-year process in which U.S. Soccer becomes USYS’s sole voting member while working toward full operational integration.
Any youth soccer club big enough to matter has to file with the IRS every year. Almost nobody reads what gets filed. We did — revenue, director pay, and who actually owns what — for the clubs that already have your kid's registration fee.
None of this is illegal. All of it is public. Most of it never gets read.
Four directors' pay disappeared from the books the year a company they also run went national under a nearly identical name.
Started as a Del Mar club team in 1977. Now the events arm answers to a Florida investment firm that also owns a piece of one of the biggest youth soccer networks on the planet.
Revenue fell 81% in two years. Expenses fell 95%. The founder's for-profit company, running under the same name since 2015, kept humming along.
Every nonprofit of any real size has to file one with the IRS, and the filing is public. Revenue, expenses, assets, and exactly what every director and top employee got paid, by name. Most clubs count on nobody reading it.
Plenty of clubs run the coaching side as a nonprofit and hand the tournaments, apparel, or facility to a separate for-profit company. That's ordinary, and often above board. We lay out the structure. You decide what it means.
That doesn't mean it's clean. It means nobody's finished pulling the thread yet. Every report says plainly which is which.
Recent coverage that names a club we track. Headlines link out to the original source.
USYS State Associations voted Aug. 29 to integrate with U.S. Soccer, starting a two-year process in which U.S. Soccer becomes USYS’s sole voting member while working toward full operational integration.
San Diego Surf, Legends FC, SoCal Blues, Beach FC, Slammers FC, Eagles SC, Pateadores, LA Breakers, Rebels SC and LAFC So Cal each had players named to the 2025–26 ECNL Regional League Girls Southwest All-Conference teams.
Slammers FC’s Andres Rocha Jimenez, Beach FC’s Panagiotis Batsaras, Pateadores’ Jesse Aguayo and Cyrus Soriano, and LAFC So Cal’s Benjamin Andreasen were named ECNL Boys All-Americans.
So Cal Blues’ Brazil Crockett was named U15 National Player of the Year; players from San Diego Surf, Eagles SC, Legends FC and Slammers FC also earned All-American honors.
Slammers FC’s Andres Rocha Jimenez (U16) and Beach FC’s Panagiotis Batsaras (U17) were named ECNL Southwest Conference Players of the Year.
Legends FC’s U15 boys beat Florida Kraze 2–1 in San Diego to open defense of their national title.