Star-News Boys Soccer All-Area teams
Above: St. Francis High School’s Nick Posthuma, standing in front of the Golden Knights’ Coat of Arms, has been named the Star-News’ boys soccer Player of the Year.
Boys Soccer player of the year story
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/preps/ci_5536264
Boys Soccer coach of the year story, Claine Plummer, Marshall
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/preps/ci_5536266
Boys Soccer all-area team story
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/preps/ci_5536186
Boys soccer all-area team slide show
http://lang.sgvtribune.com/multimedia/flash/032807_pasboyssoccer/index.asp
Boys Soccer First Team
Francisco Cantero, defender, Marshall, Junior
Malcolm Linton, defender, La Salle, Senior
Sean McGuinness, defender, St. Francis, Junior
Rene Gonzalez, midfielder, Bosco Tech, Senior
Cesar Barajas, midfielder, Marshall, Senior
Joe Franco, midfielder, St. Francis, Junior
Eric Guo, midfielder, Arcadia, Senior
Dean Rowley, forward, Bosco Tech, Sophomore
Nick Posthuma, forward, St. Francis, Junior
Daniel Rojas, forward, Monrovia, Junior
Devin King, goalkeeper, La Canada, Senior
Boys Soccer Second Team
Johnathan Marone, defender, Monrovia, Senior
James Barbour, defender, San Marino, Senior
Patrick VanValkenburg, defender, Temple City, Senior
Juan Zurita Jr., midfielder, South Pasadena, Senior
Dominic Baiocco, midfielder, La Canada, Senior
Francisco Castro, midfielder, Blair, Sophomore
Dante Bruno-Lopez, midfielder, Temple City, Senior
Omar Elmastri, forward, Arcadia, Junior
Kyle Campbell, forward, La Canada, Senior
Nick Swart, forward, St. Francis, Junior
Andy Saldana, goalkeeper, La Salle, Senior
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Amen to that Anonymous.
It is nice to see all of these players that have grown up playing on South Pas fields. Our fields have carried the brunt and show the wear and tear of all these cities playing on our fields in our uber-AYSO. Then they go and play for other cities and get awards. Nice job South Pas selling out your city fields for all these other cities' high schools to have success.
Robert Hernandez from Gabrielino got robbed!!!
What i forgot to mention though is thank you for giving an arena to speak out about this stuff, and it must be a tremendous amount of work for you but you have done a great job Fred.
Are you kidding me soccerdude?
Dom should be on first team for sure so should kyle and Id even say dante deserves a first team spot, but their are only so many places.
On the other hand fred, have you seen a South Pas game this season?
Ive seen Zurita play, and played with him before, and frankly as a midfielder he has no right to be on that list. The entire Boys soccer program at South Pas is a joke, parents should not be coaches.
Zurita, in my oppinion, was just as good as goalkeeper devin king, when his dad, the coach, finally decided to put him there. But to give him first team rio hondo league honors (I know you didnt but the coaches, which i guarentee was politicing) and then you give him second team all area, when he wasnt even the best mid fielder on HIS OWN TEAM. Shallcross, Elssaessar, and even Aalem and Peraza (when they played mid field) were better.
Its sad to see the SP program waste through SO MUCH talented, especially the last two years, because of poor coaching. Before Zurita, Acosta has this team as a powerhouse. Making semis, beating the likes of la salle, marantha, and others. in the 6 or so years Zurita has been coaching, there has been one playoff birth, which they lost in the first round.
South Pas program has had teams that could compete and beat the best teams in the area the past few years, and just havent done it.
A new field is coming next year, I say a new coach comes with it, but then again AD Punaro is too lazy to do much anyways.
At least four of your second teams guys should be on the first team, like Zurita, Campbell, Elmasari and Baiocco