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.

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