In 2002, Pete Santora and Erik Stadler created a soccer company around the mission of inspiring passion for the game of soccer. After growing up playing youth, college and professional soccer, the two friends wanted to stay with the game they loved and share their experience. After a year of operation, Nacional Soccer, LLC started to experience significant growth that was accompanied by piles of paper. Their summer camps, coaching courses and training clinics had created a mountain of headaches. Quickbooks became a daily nightmare data inputting line item registration after line item registration and the need for a corporate website became a constant battle with the web developer to keep the content “fresh.” Enter Blue Sombrero in the summer of 2003. Started as Nacional Sports Technologies and changed to Blue Sombrero after the move that Ronaldinho made famous (click here to view), Pete and Erik began working with a team of developers to alleviate the stresses associated with registration, accounting and communication. Their limited technology background allowed them to focus on the administrator’s interaction with the service and led Blue Sombrero to become the leader in administrator driven services. Since its founding, Blue Sombrero has become the leading online registration provider and league management system for sports administrators in more than 30 states across the country. Blue Sombrero’s user-friendly service processes thousands of online registrations per week with a success rate of over 95% for first-time users. All of us at Blue Sombrero are former athletes turned administrators. We were raised in the U.S. youth sport system and believe in its power to shape the lives of children. We understand the challenges sport administrators face on a daily basis and are here to help. Blue Sombrero’s mission is to provide youth sports organizations with the simplest system for online registration, and pair that service with the most comprehensive customer support in the business. There are no secrets to the story, only hard work with customers to figure out the simplest and most efficient way to run a sports organization. It is our passionate search for this simplification born and reborn every day that drives us… CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT: • BLUE SOMBRERO SERVICES FOR CLUBS/LEAGUES • BLUE SOMBRERO SERVICES FOR STATE ASSOCIATIONS