History
In our glorious 30 years of service to the soccer community many past and current Unites States soccer names have played or coached at our club. Past National team coaches Steve Sampson and Ralph Perez both coached here, with Steve coaching the U23 team to the championship of the World University Games in New Mexico. Under 17 National team assistant coach Cameron Rast both coached and played here until 2000 and is still affiliated to our club. He currently is the head coach at Santa Clara University. Past players also include Paul Bravo (Colorado Rapids), Jeff Baicher (San Jose Clash), Paul Holocher (San Jose Clash) and from the old NASL days; Gabo Gavric (first SJ Earthquake coach), Ilija Mitic and the Demling brothers (Buzz and Mark). Several of our players have also gone on to star in the A-League and Vince da Silva (goalkeeper) went on to play two years with Alverca of the Portuguese second division.
Several years ago we added a Women's premier program and a youth program. Several of the players from our youth program have gone on to college soccer careers and have now returned to play with the men's team. The Under 19 Boys won the California State Cup Championship in 1994 and several other teams have combined to win 5 District II Youth Champions (U-14 Girls, U-16 Girls, U-19 Girls, U-14 Boys, U-16 Boys), plus numerous Youth Tournaments throughout the State of California and Hawaii. The Santa Clara Sporting Club continues to grow and new history continues to be written………….