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Mustang Spirit Competitive Soccer Team Cal North State Cup Champions 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007
Golden State Soccer League Champions 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
The Mustang Spirit is a Division 1 girls soccer team from Danville, California
Golden State Soccer League Champions 2008!
Undefeated
CYSA-North State Cup
The Spirits overall record for games played in State Cup since U11's is 30 wins, 2 ties and 2 losses.
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Upcoming Tournaments
Far West Regional Fall League Final Round
1st in Brack A
November 22-23, 2008
Surf College Cup
November 28-30, 2008
News Highlights
As of 11/18/08 the Mustang Spirit is ranked by National Soccer Rankings 17 in Region 4 2 in Cal North by Got Soccer 40 in the Nation 8 in Region 4 2 in Cal North
August 2008
The U17 Mustang Spirit Capture the Stampede Title
August 2007
Tough weekend for the Spirit as they left the tournament with a 0-1-2 record. Playing on a small field, the girls just could not get into their groove. Their final loss in the tournament was to Glendora, the ultimate champions of Blues Cup 2007. Returning home to regroup, the Spirit will prepare for their next tournament, the Women's Nike Friendlies.
Mustang Stampede - Red Bull League
The Red Bull National League played its inaugural games for the U-15 and U-16 girls at this years Stampede tournament. Eighteen of the nation's top clubs brought their teams to Danville in these two age groups. The Spirit competed in three league games with wins against FC Delco Sting 91 (2-0), St. Louis SC Blue (3-1) and a loss against PDA Fire (1-3). After an evenly matched game and well fought effort against PDA, the Spirit came out with a loss in the last minute of the game with scores resulting from a corner kick, and indirect kick. The Spirit have accumlated a total of 19 points and are currently rankednumber 7 out of the 18 teams participating in the U16 Red Bull League.
Surf Cup proved to be a bit of a challenge for the Spirit after not advancing out of a very tough bracket. Up against two National Champions, So Cal Blues (2007) and the Irvine Strikers (2006), the Spirit played hard beating the Strikers 1-0 and losing to the Blues with a respectable 0-1. Their first game against the Laural Lightening ended in a 1-1 tie. Although the Spirit did not perform as well as they had hoped, they left with pride knowing that they faced some of the toughest teams in the U16 age bracket.
July 2007
Pleasanton College Showcase
1st in Super 1 Bracket
The U16 Mustang Spirit came out on top of the Super 1 bracket in the 2007 Pleasanton College Showcase beating four strong Southern California teams including Real So Cal Blue, Slammers North, Surf White, and Laguna Hills Eclipse White
June 2007
2007 Far West Regionals Semifinalist
The Spirit fell short in the semifinal match against the So Cal Blues in the last 2 minutes of the game. The final score was 2-3. The Blues moved on earning the Region IV Championships and National titles. Despite the Spirit loss, they advanced further in Regionals than in prior years and proved they can play among the best.
April 2007
Cal North State Cup News
The Spirit Capture the Cup defeating the San Ramon Shock 2-1.
The Mustang Spirit have won their fourth State Cup Championship against the following teams:
2007: San Ramon
2005: San Juan Spirits
2004: SCA - Petaluma
2003: DVSC
MUSTANG SPIRIT U15 GIRLS WINQUARTER FINAL & SEMI FINAL MATCHES
The Mustang Spirit (Danville, CA) U15 Girls Class 1 Soccer team, notched wins over the San Juan Spirit of Sacramento (5-4) and the Petaluma SCA (2 - 0).
Spirit Advance to the Quarter Finals Toughing it out in a hard fought game against Lamorinda under winding conditions, the Spirit managed to come out on top with a score of 2-1 for the win in the State Cup round of sixteen.
March 2007
The Spirit hit the road and traveled to Nevada for the Las Vegas Showcase resulting in a 2-1-1 game record having no subs and losing only to Surf who were the tournament finalists. Great Job Girls!
Member of the NEW RED BULL NATIONAL LEAGUE
MUSTANG SOCCER CLUB JOINS 17 OTHER ELITE NATIONAL PROGRAMS AS PART OF THE LAUNCH FOR RED BULL NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR GIRLS
The Mustang Soccer Club will join 17 other elite national programs when the Red Bull National League for girls launches this fall. The Red Bull national league will feature U16 and U15 girls teams. Red Bull launched a similar league for U17 boys in 2006.
The U16 Mustang Spirit who is coached by Mike Descombaz will participate. Other clubs involved in the league are: Surf Soccer Club (San Diego, Calif.); Slammers FC (Newport Beach, Calif.); Sereno SC (Phoenix, AZ); Irvine SC Strikers (Irvine, Calif.); Real SoCal (Calabasas, Calif.); Real Colorado (Douglas County, Col.); Crossfire Premier (Redmond, Wash.); Colorado Rush (Littleton, Col.); St. Louis Soccer Club ;Michigan Hawks (Livonia, Mich.); Eclipse Select (Chicago, Ill.); CASL (Raleigh, NC); PDA (Zarephath, NJ); FC Delco (East Brandywine, Pa.); Sting Soccer Club (Dallas, Tex.); and the Dallas Texans.
The opportunities these players will be given to play in front of hundreds of top college coaches, as well as U.S. Soccer regional and national staff coaches, is unprecedented. Nowhere else will serious soccer players have this level of exposure to top-level competition on a national scale.
