{"id":188107,"date":"2026-02-22T00:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188107\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:50:18","slug":"sdfc-execs-reach-out-ahead-of-new-season-dedicating-court-in-colina-del-sol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188107\/","title":{"rendered":"SDFC execs reach out ahead of new season, dedicating court in Colina del Sol"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Several<\/a>Children play on the new court, featuring a large SDFC logo, dedicated Saturday Feb. 21, 2026 by the MLS club at Colina del Sol Park. (Photo by Hector Trujillo)<\/p>\n

San Diego FC<\/a> held a court dedication at Colina Del Sol Park on Saturday morning to celebrate the club\u2019s Parks & Pitches multi-sport courts initiative.<\/p>\n

Among the speakers were SDFC founding partner and club chairman Sir Mohamed Mansour, founding partner and club vice-chairman Cody Martinez, chief executive officer Tom Penn and Qualcomm executive vice president Don McGuire. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat an amazing job that has been done here,\u201d said Mansour, hours ahead of the start to the team\u2019s second season. \u201cThank you to all the boys and girls who came out here today to practice on the court, including our wonderful Right To Dream Academy kids. We spent the whole day with them yesterday and it was so touching. Most off all, I want to thank the people of San Diego for your support and trust in us.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

SDFC\u2019s Parks & Pitches initiative develops courts and fields in public parks into play spaces centered around soccer. The club adopted a hyperlocal, community-centric approach to work directly with the community, local artists and youth on the spaces. <\/p>\n

Penn called Saturday \u201ca step forward in partnership\u201d with the community after SDFC staff did a full day of service and clean up of the park. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just so special to be back in this historic place that has serviced so many people for so many years,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just an honor to be a force for good for all of you in this community.\u201d <\/p>\n

The pitches are enhanced with art installations, along with programming and local vendors, in hopes of bringing together community members of all ages. The Colina Del Sol Recreation Center also received donations of soccer gear, benches and other equipment Saturday. It\u2019s all available to community members at no additional cost. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so proud of this partnership and our continued commitment to San Diego,\u201d McGuire said. <\/p>\n

The event also included the heads of the Italian branch of the Royal House of Bourbon. Prince Charles and Princess Camilla, and their daughters, Princess Carolina of Bourbon and Princess Maria Chiara of Bourbon, among other international representatives, attended the dedication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Children play on the new court, featuring a large SDFC logo, dedicated Saturday Feb. 21, 2026 by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[15006,19630,74,1254,76,75],"class_list":["post-188107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-city-heights","tag-qualcomm","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-fc","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}