San Diego Flash

San Diego Flash

The San Diego Flash was a professional men's soccer team, based in San Diego, California, that played in the A-League between 1998 and 2001 and was founded by its original President Yan Skwara and its General Manager was Sam Kaloustian. Costa Skouras was the clubs second year coach and was replaced by Papo Santos the following year. The club averaged aprroximetelty 2500 fans per game and played it home games at Southwest College and Mesa College. The largest crowds for a Flash match was at Mesa College for a standing room only crowd of 6500 for a US Open Cup match against Major League Soccer's LA Galaxy, in front of an overflow crowd and womens US Soccer's Shannon MacMillan Day. Players that played for the Flash and then went on to play in Major League Soccer include Joe Cannon, Jimmy Conrad, and Thiago Martins.

In its final year, Mary Kaliff served as the team's general manager. [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/communitysports/20040919-9999-m1sc19vibe.html "Presidio soccer has rough first week"] September 19, 2004, "San Diego News Tribune." Accessed February 14, 2007.] Jonathan Greene was the team's public relations manager and director of communications; by March, 2001, he had moved on to work with a San Diego women's soccer team, the Spirit. Zach Margolis was the teams Director of Community Relations and Gameday Operations. [http://www.sandiegometro.com/2001/mar/sdspirit.html "San Diego Sports Gets An Injection of 'Spirit'"] March, 2001. Accessed February 14, 2007.]

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* [http://www.logoserver.com/Soccer/SanDiegoFlash.gifSan Diego Flash logo] with swoops
* [http://www.logoserver.com/Soccer/SDFlash02.gifSan Diego Flash logo] with lightning-style letters
* [http://www.uslfans.com/features/fea,2000,0051.shtml "San Diego Going Strong into it's Fourth Season"] by Eric Bekins December 20, 2000, published at a league fan site; backgrounder on team's finances. Accessed February 14, 2007.


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