Soccer News

DATE: Sunday, March 17,2019
TIME: 11:00AM
LOCATION: SURF CUP SPORTS PARK #8
14989 Via De La Valle Del Mar, CA 92014

The Nomads Soccer Club was established in La Jolla some time between 1974 and 1976 by Joe Hollow, Jeff Barns and Tony Lees. In 1981 Derek Armstrong our current Director of Coaching was hired to professionalize the Club at a time where other Clubs had volunteer parent coaches.

On average we have no more than 11 boys teams ages 8-19, one team at each age group. We have purposely kept the Club small so that we can concentrate on providing opportunities to the most talented players. We do not offer a girls program or a recreational program. We are working on adding a Futsal program later in 2018.

Our home field, Kinsell Field at the Hickman Youth Athletic Complex, was built by private donations coordinated by Jeff Kinsell in 1996, this field is considered "professional standard" and has been maintained all these years by the Nomads.

Nomads players consistently graduate from all the major colleges in the nation, having no less than five (5) captains of Yale University...

Qualifying boys’ teams in five age groups from 14-U to 19-U from the NPL West will advance to the ENPL Playoffs in summer 2019. These teams will earn qualification to the postseason ENPL Playoffs based on their performances throughout the regular season.
The NPL West includes the following clubs:

• Albion SC
• Arsenal
• FC Golden State
• Irvine Strikers
• LA Galaxy
• Pateadores
• Real So Cal
• Surf

“The addition of a new NPL featuring the strongest clubs in Southern California, and our long-term member NorCal Premier, which boasts the top clubs in Northern California, ensures that the best players throughout California now have the opportunity for a top-level, league-based competition culminating in a true National Championship,” said Kevin Payne, US Club Soccer CEO. “For players who are not playing in the Development Academy, ENPL will ensure a similarly outstanding, every-day training experience and fantastic competition.”...

Inside a Boston hotel room April 12, 2018, Yale Women's Soccer Coach Rudy Meredith allegedly met with a father from California who was ready to pay to get his daughter into the Ivy League school.

A deal was reached, federal prosecutors said.

Meredith, 51, allegedly agreed to designate the young woman, identified in court documents as "Applicant 2," as a Yale soccer player in exchange for $450,000. Prosecutors said he accepted an initial payment of $2,000 in cash at the hotel and later received $4,000 through a wire transfer into a Connecticut bank account.

What Meredith, who resigned as the team's coach in November after 24 years, did not know was that the FBI was secretly recording the meeting.

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