The Galaxy 96 B13 is looking for a few very good players to add their talents to this competitive soccer team.  The team will be moving up to Silver competition in the fall 2010 Coast Soccer League season and the team is trying to find some skilled players to make this excellent squad even better.

Prospective players are invited to come out to the team’s practices held at the Veteran Administration soccer fields in Brentwood during the spring. Practices are held from 5:30pm to 7:00pm on Monday and Wednesday evenings.  Please use the field link on the main webpage for the Galaxy Alliance Soccer Club (www.galaxyalliance.org) to find driving directions to the VA fields.

The Galaxy 96 B13 will be playing in Spring League and the Spring League playoffs and may invite some players trying out to play with the team during these games. To be eligible, players must have birthdays August 1, 1996 or later. Players interested in coming out should wear proper soccer gear, including shin guards.

For more information on tryouts and the team, and to schedule a time to come out to practices, please contact team manager Robert Ginsberg at rginsberg@iptap.com or Coach Sobrinho at soccer_brazil@hotmail.com.

Tryouts will be held on Wednesday April 21 for a new BU10 club soccer team within the Galaxy Alliance Soccer Club. To be eligible for this team, players must have birthdays on or after August 1, 2000.

Tryouts will be held from 4pm to 5:30pm at MacArthur Field, which are the soccer fields located right on the Veterans Administration grounds in Brentwood. The VA grounds are located off of Wilshire Blvd immediately west of the I-405 freeway. To locate the soccer fields within the VA, follow signs to the Brentwood Theatre which shares the same parking lot used by MacArthur Field.

Prospective players are asked to come to the tryout in their soccer gear, including shin guards. For questions or if you need more information, please feel free to email Coach Tim Pierce at TitoPierce@hotmail.com.

The Galaxy Alliance GU13 Blackouts team will be opening up their team practices throughout February to interested players who wish to try out for the team.  Players need to have birthdates of August 1, 1996 or later to be eligible to play for the Blackouts. The Blackouts currently play in the GU13 age group and will be playing in a Silver bracket in the GU14 age group for the 2010 fall season.

Practices for the Blackouts are held Mondays and Wednesdays at the Rancho Park fields in Cheviot Hills. Please link to the Cheviot Hills field link on the Galaxy Alliance’s home webpage at www.galaxyalliance.org for exact locations and driving directions to Rancho Park. For more information, please feel free to contact Joe Russo at 310-621-3710. Prospective players should wear proper soccer gear including shin guards.

The Girls Galaxy Force soccer team will be holding tryouts for prospective players throughout March, April and May. The Force will be playing in the GU16 age bracket for the fall 2010 season. To be eligible, players must have birthdays of August 1, 1994 or later.  Field players and Goalkeepers are all welcome to come and tryout! Players are asked to come out in proper soccer gear which should include shin guards.

Tryouts will be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7pm to 8:30pm at the Veterans Administration soccer fields in Brentwood. Directions to the Galaxy fields are found linked on the home webpage of the Galaxy Alliance Soccer Club at www.galaxyalliance.org.

To schedule a time to tryout for the team, please contact one of the Galaxy Force team managers. Peter Meyer: Peteywho@verizon.net or Angel Vasquez: angel1071@sbcglobal.net.

The girls Galaxy Alliance Wildcats team is looking to fill some spots on their upcoming roster. The Wildcats will be holding tryouts Tuesday and Thursday evenings March through May so please come check it out. Field position players as well as goalkeepers should come and try out for the team.

The Wildcats will be playing in the GU15 age bracket for the coming 2010 fall season. To be eligible to play on the Wildcats, girls must have birthdays of August 1, 1995 or later. Tryouts will be taking place from 5:30pm to 7:00pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Veterans Administration soccer fields in Brentwood. A link to the VA fields for directions is found on the main page of the Galaxy Alliance website. Prospective players are asked to come to tryouts in soccer gear including shin guards.

To schedule a time to come out, please contact one of the Wildcats’ team managers: Ron Wilkerson at rwilkerson@roadrunner.com, or Peter Meyer at peteywho@verizon.net. Please include your daughter’s date of birth with your email information.

Place: John Adams Middle School (Santa Monica) from 6pm to 9pm under the lights. John Adams is located on Ocean Park Blvd at the corner of 16th Street.

Players interested in being considered for next year’s roster as well as current members of the BU15 Galaxy Vapor team are invited to attend these open practice sessions. All players attending are requested to wear appropriate soccer gear, including shin guards.

The Vapor recently finished their BU15 Silver Elite season with a 5-5-1 record which they hope is good enough to move them to the Gold bracket in Coast Soccer League action next season.  Players in the Vapor age bracket need to have a birthdate of August 1, 1994 or later to be eligible.

For more information, email Coach Chambers at c_chambo17@hotmail.com.

Rain and field conditions combined to cancel the girls under 14 Galaxy Devil-Cats team from having an open practice at Mark Twain Middle School on Saturday December 12, 2009. Please continue to watch for future dates for these open practice sessions. Players from the current DCats team as well as prospective players are all invited to come out. Please wear soccer gear including shin guards.

The DCats are poised to move up into Silver Elite next season based on their results this year in GU14 Silver North in the Coast Soccer League. The team is coached by Christian Chambers and the team is looking to bolster their roster with a few more good players. Dates and location for tryouts will be posted shortly. For more information, contact either Christian Chambers at c_chambo17@hotmail.com or team manager Bobby Pina at bobby.pina@sbcglobal.net.

Mark Twain Middle School is located in Mar Vista. Please see the links on the home page for directions to the field.

Irvine, CA, 08.23.09 – As they had done the previous year, the Galaxy Wildcats played hard and fought their way into the Championship Final at the Orange County Kickoff Classic. The Championship game, this year against the Laguna Niguel SC White, was tied 0 – 0 at the end of regulation and was ultimately decided in PKs resulting in a 0 – 1 score with the Wildcats claiming the Finalist medals.  This year, however, the Wildcats did not allow any goals to be scored against them during regulation play in any of their four tournament games while scoring just as many goals (9) as they had the previous year.  What’s more, the new “balanced attack” from the Wildcats resulted in 7 different Wildcat players scoring goals during the course of the tournament.

In their first game, the Wildcats trounced the City Soccer Gazelles by a score of 6 – 0 while allowing just 1 shot at their own goal.  The second game was nearly as lopsided: 3 – 0 against the LAFC Chelsea White team resulting in a 20 point total for the 2 games.  On Sunday morning, the Wildcats played hard against a fast and aggressive Greater Long Beach Heat team which ended in a 0 – 0 tie.  Because of their point advantage, the Wildcats were able to win their Bracket over Long Beach and head into the Championship final vs. Laguna Niguel.  This year’s Wildcat team promises to be a very exciting team to watch with a stable roster of returning players plus some great new additions.  In fact, three players new to the Wildcats since last season (Nancy Lopez, Fiona Duerr and Jacquelyn Espinosa) all scored goals during the course of the tournament.  Other goal-scorers on the weekend were Ashley Coreas, Betsy Mebane, Siena Landay and Sasha Meyer.  With the Wildcats’ aggressive offense combined with a stiffened defense that doesn’t give up goals, the Wildcats are definitely a team on the move this season.  The Wildcats have been either Champions or Finalists in all 3 tournaments they have played in 2009.

Each Galaxy Alliance team is requested to send at least one representative to the club-wide team meeting Wednesday September 2 at 7:30pm.  Location is the Kornfield home at 12225 Lawler Street in Mar Vista.

The Galaxy B92 had a most impressive run of games at the 2009 Pateadores Cup to win the championship trophy in the Boys Under 17 bracket.  The B92 were never scored upon by any of their excellent Gold and Premier-level opponents at this renown and very competitive tournament. The Galaxy squad beat Hoffman United Hurricanes 4-0 in their opening game,  then beat Pateadores Blue 1-0, and Legends FC Black 2-0 in pool play. In the semi-finals, the Galaxy B92 beat Pateadores White by the impressive score of 5-0. In the finals, the Galaxy B92 won 3-0 over the Yucaipa Athletic Cal Heat team.

The Pats Cup was held July 25, 26 & 27 with the Galaxy B92 having played their pool games at UC Irvine and the championship rounds at the Polo Fields in San Juan Capistrano. The Galaxy B92 is scheduled to play in the BU17 Gold bracket of Coast Soccer League in the upcoming fall season.

The Galaxy B92’s Mariano Guerineau has been selected to attend the 2009 Adidas ESP camp, an official select event within the Olympic Development Program. Players are invited to this program based on the recommendations of a nationwide scouting network seeking out the most promising players in the country.

Mariano is a 16 year old player who also made the 2009 Adidas “Top 100 Players List” for the USA.  Mariano has played for several years now with the Galaxy B92 team having been coached by Mark Shanley, Beto Dos Santos and now by Chendo.  Mariano will attend the Adidas camp this coming summer.  Other graduates of the Adidas ESP program are now playing on the US Men’s National Team, the MLS, on European clubs and in several Division 1 college programs. 

The Galaxy Alliance Soccer Club congratulates Mariano for this well-earned recognition and this honor and we all wish him great success.

The Galaxy Alliance Soccer Club’s director of coaching, Beto Dos Santos will also be attending the 2009 Adidas ESP camp as a coach.

The Galaxy Fusion has openings for a few skilled players who want to play on a highly competitive girl’s soccer team. The Fusion played in the Gold bracket of the Coast Soccer Season last season and will be back there again next season. The team is seeking to replace a few of the players on the squad who are graduating.

The Fusion are coached by Lasan Darboe. Coach Darboe runs the Fusion practices from 5:30pm to 7:30pm each Tuesday and Thursday at the Rancho Park fields.  If you are interested in trying out, please contact Ron Dorfman at (310) 266-0683 for more information. 

Moorpark June 21, 2009. The defending champion Galaxy Wildcats nearly repeated their 2008 success at the Johnny Lopez Memorial Cup 2009, ultimately coming up short in a penalty kick shootout with the Apex G95.  The Wildcats had an amazing string of successes at the tournament winning their first three games in shutouts: 5-0 vs the Kickers Blue, 6-0 vs Chivas USA and 2-0 vs the Falcons for 29 points, the highest total by any team in their age bracket. In the championship final against the Silver (nearly Silver Elite) Apex G95, the Wildcats scored first early in the second half.  The Apex team came back with an answering goal and the game remain tied through regulation and two overtime periods.  The game was ultimately decided by Apex scoring 3 penalty kicks.

The Wildcats have improved their roster since the end of the fall season and new players including Kenia Bonilla, Nancy Lopez, Caitlin Whiteside and Emma Schwartz all made strong contributions during the tournament. Another development in the tournament was the ascendency of defender Emma Polhemus as a scoring threat.  Two of Emma’s high kicks over the heads of opposing defenders resulted in goals for the Wildcats. Goalkeeper Michall Singleton also distinguished herself with many amazing saves - preserving the shutouts and keeping the final tied up in overtime.  The Wildcats also had several guest players fill positions for vacationing Wildcats: Joan Rosello from the SAS Kickers and Ellie Benitez, Cheyenne Thomas and Hayley Pina of the Galaxy Devil-Cats all helped out. The Wildcats ended their 2008-2009 season as champions in two tournaments and finalists in two others out of the five tournaments played. The overall record of the Galaxy Wildcats from 2008-2009 was 25 wins, 14 losses and 6 ties. With that record to build on, the Wildcats and their coaches are looking forward to a very strong season in the coming year.

The Galaxy Alliance SC’s summer training camp will be held this year at Barrington Park. Barrington Park is located on Barrington Avenue between Sunset and San Vicente Blvds.  Camp begins Monday August 10th and continues through Friday August 14th from 9am to 2pm each day. 

The 2009 Galaxy camp registration form is now available and is posted on the “Camps“ page which can be easily linked from the front page of the Galaxy Alliance Soccer Club website.  Campers are recommended to bring their soccer gear, their lunch, sunscreen and plenty of water to drink each day at camp.  Campers will receive a new soccer ball and a Galaxy t-shirt.  Campers should bring their ball to camp with them each day.

Families are encouraged to register their players ahead of time to avoid camp day registration.  Sign in will be required as of the first day of camp.  Camp day registration is available beginning at 8:30am on the first day of camp. Please arrive with your form all completed to make this process work quicker.

The Galaxy Alliance Pythons and the Galaxy Rattlers began their team’s respective club soccer careers in the BU13 age bracket evolving from AYSO all-star squads.  Now the players on these teams have either graduated high school or are rising seniors.  The two GASC teams both enjoyed great success stories over the years in club soccer and had a great time playing together. The Pythons and the Rattlers held a joint reunion of their teams at the home of Mary and Dan James on Wednesday evening June 24th.  Current and past players from both teams and their families attended this fabulous evening.