2008 Season Opener
The Salinas Valley
Samba begin their 2008 and fifth season in the National Premier
Soccer League with a pair of weekend games against local rivals
in San Jose and Santa Cruz. The game against Real San Jose is
set for this Friday, May 2, 7:30 pm at Yerba Buena High School
in San Jose. Real San Jose finished last in our division in
2007, but new additions to their roster promise to make them a
lot tougher side in 2008..(click
here to read more)
2008 Schedule
The Samba have a great schedule of ultra
competitive games this season including participating in the US
Open Cup in Arizona and battling the best teams throughout
Northern California!
View Samba 2008 Schedule
View NPSL 2008 Schedule
Samba 2008 Season
The
Salinas Valley Samba players and staff are excited to begin our
fifth season as a member of the National Premier Soccer League.
Long gone is the notion that this game is some kind of “foreign
sport” as the United States now hosts more than 24,000,000
active league...(read more)
Steps to A Healthier
Salinas
The
Steps to a Healthier Salinas program aims to help Salinas’s
residents live longer, better, and healthier lives by reducing
the burden of diabetes, overweight, obesity, and asthma and
addressing three related risk factors – physical inactivity,
poor nutrition, and tobacco use.
View video to learn more
about this
needed program:
courtesy of the Monterey County Health Department
With Samba star and Salinas native Alvaro
Hernandez as coach, the Steps
program filmed a great Public Service Announcement geared at
fighting obesity and promoting healthy lifestyles.
"Sending uniformed players who
epitomize the healthy and active lifestyles that fight obesity,
gives kids a role
model
of health to look up to... one who may very well have grown up
in their neighborhood"
Can these players make a difference?
Be it at asthma camp, a school demo for
H.E.L.P., or filming a
Public Service video for
Steps to a Healthier Salinas; the answer is found by
simply watching the eyes of impressionable children mesmerized
by the masterful juggling of a soccer ball. Messages
of health that are often lost in the glut of sugar cereal and
soda advertising, resonate strongly when coming from a local
"hero" who stands tall as a living testament to a healthy
lifestyle.
Click to see the Samba at work in the community
(video courtesy
of the Salinas Californian)
