State Cup

Sporting 93 will be playing SF Bay Area Scores this coming sunday in Santa Clara in preparation for the State Cup tournament the following weekend. The team is feeling pretty confident about doing well in the first round of the State Cup. We understand though that despite the fact that the team is feeling strong about their game, it cannot under estimate any of its rivals.

First we will play San Juan lightning Blue. At this time we are not really sure how strong the San Juan team will be. They were semifinalist at the Presidents Day cup tournament in Arizona, which is a pretty competitive tournament. They beat DeAnza Force blue at that tournament 1-0. DeAnza is currently one of our 2 biggest rivals in N. California behind Odyssey. The only thing though is that after beating DeAnza in the semis, they lost in the championship match with a pretty bad score of 5-0. The team also just won the Diablo FC cup. There were no competitive teams besides Mavericks Fusion at that tournament though. It seems that this team is looking to be the upset in this state cup by eliminating us. They will not succeed though.

DeAnza Force Black is also in our bracket. We are not underestimating this team but not really worried either.
Solano Rapids is an unknown team. We are always careful with unknown teams because last year in the first round of State Cup, we underestimated the Stockton Cougars team and they almost eliminated in the first round.

Well, as you know, it is always everyone's dream to win the State Cup and become State Champion. Unfortunately only one team can obtain the title. The way has been somewhat cleared for the top teams by the disintegration of the tough Tecos team (current State Champion) who will now only be playing with their B Squad. Tecos used to be our biggest rival so it sucks that they longer will be around.