1. 2014 Hall of Fame
Dinner & Induction Ceremony

2.
SAN FRANCISCO SOCCER FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Founded 1902
USASA Elite Premier League in northern California
2424 Mariposa St. San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 863-8892
www.sfsfl.com
Executive Officers
Leo Shoomiloff, President
Jeff Staben, 1st Vice President
Genaro Camacho, 2nd Vice President
Joaquin Trigueros, 3rd Vice President
Carlos Mejia, Member at Large
John Ovalle, Member at Large
Aram Kardzair, Treasurer
Oscar Padilla, Field Commissioner
Congratulations to the 2014 Honorees
Kari Seitz & Jesus Salmeron

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5. 2014 Hall of Fame
Dinner & Induction Ceremony
The Evening Program
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Lobby Foyer
No Host Cocktails
7:00 PM
Dinner at The Ballroom
“Celebration of the Flavors of World Cup Countries”
8:00 PM
Presentation of Hall of Fame Inductees
Jesus Salmeron & Kari Seitz
President’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Julio Cesar Piña

6. www.cnra.net
ON BEHALF OF
CALIFORNIA NORTH REFEREE ADMINISTRATION
Congratulations to the 2014 Honorees
Kari Seitz & Jesus Salmeron

7. American Kari Seitz is considered
one of the most experienced female
professional soccer referees in the
world. Kari was a FIFA Referee from
1999 to 2013 and participated in 4
FIFA Women’s World Cups, 1 World
Championship, 3 Olympic soccer
tournaments along with officiating in
24 other International Tournaments/
Events in 17 different countries and
refereeing National Teams from 42
different countries. Kari holds the
international record for World Cup
appearance, male or female. In October
2013, she retired after a distinguished
28-year career. Since 2013 she has been
a National soccer referee instructor.
“Soccer started for me at the age of 6.
Growing up in the suburbs of Michigan
I was encouraged to try all the sports
available in the local community. As a
tom boy I wanted to try them all. But
soccer was the one was the one that
I was drawn to, had some skills at and
quickly fell in love with.
I played soccer from the age of 6
on through to college ball. During
my playing time, on the first all girl
competitive travel team in Michigan, I
was “forced” by my coach to take the
referee training course. The whole
team had to take it and to this day I
believe it was because as a non-soccer
guy who was reading books to learn
wanted his player to figure out offside,
rather than having to explain it to us.
At the age of 14 I was a fully certified
referee, having no idea actually how
to referee just the laws of the game. I
hadn’t even seen a professional soccer
game, either on TV or live. A few
months later I was the only person on
my team still refereeing. Thick skin,
love of the game and the allure of easy
money kept me going.
While still in high school I started
refereeing my first Amateur soccer
matches on the line for the “Persian
League”. It was a great experience. I
was well protected by senior referees
and remember no hostility for my age
or gender, and I loved the challenge.
In college I supplemented my income
4 days a week refereeing 2 amateur
games a night; the best league in the
area made-up mostly of students from
University of Michigan. This went on
for all four years of my college career.
I was left with a huge list of soccer
referee “war stories” and referee
preparation well beyond my years.
Amateur soccer continued to be the
source of much of the challenges that
shaped me in to the referee I grew
to be. This included several years in
Chicago at the Metro Soccer League
with Hungarian, Germany, Serbian,
Croatia teams.
Chicago was a turning point for me
because it was the first time I viewed
a World Cup game, real soccer live. I
had midfield tickets, 15 row up for the
Opener in Solider Field. The moment
that the referee walked out on the field
I knew that I wanted to be a World Cup
referee.
After being a referee for 12 years I
moved to the Bay Area where my
life changed for the better. I met
some amazing people including Mr.
Alvarez, David Jones, Tim Weyland,
Bob Martinez and many, many more.
Additionally I was aided by Tony
Sousa who assigned my first amateur
matches in the Bay Area for the
Peninsula Soccer league at the Watson
bowl with Mr. Ambronzino.”
Kari Seitz
2014 CSAN HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE

8. Fraternidad Soccer League
The Bay Area’s Premier Latino Soccer League
We would like to congratulate the 2014 Hall of Fame Honorees,
Kari Seitz and Jesús Salmerón
www.fraternidadsoccer.com

9. Jesús Salmerón
2014 CSAN HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE
Born in El Salvador, Jesus Salmeron
started playing soccer at the age of 8.
When he moved to San Francisco at
the age of 29 he became a part of the
Fraternidad (“Brotherhood”) League.
Jesus had to learn to speak English
in order to adapt to his new home.
Soccer being universal world
wide helped him adjust to his new
environment. He brought his soccer
skills to the Mission District and spent
his amateur soccer years playing in the
Fraternidad (“Brotherhood”) League.
From 1982 to 1985 he played for Silver
Terrace, a fourth division team in the
Fraternidad League.
Jesus started his coaching career in
1986 when he became a coach for
his Silver Terrace team. He continued
coaching Silver Terrace for 18 years
Jesus was instrumental in helping
under-privileged youths in the Mission
and Jamestown Youth Leagues stay
away from becoming gang members,
finishing high school and attending
university.
He also developed a bridge program
for the U19 youth players to continue
playing soccer at the adult amateur
level. He invited coaches and youth
players to practice and play on adult
amateur teams at Crocker Amazon and
Silver Terrace.
This bridge program continues to be a
positive exchange between the Latin
inner-city youth and the amateur adult
soccer program.
After coaching for many years both
in the Fraternidad League and several
years coaching his daughters’ teams
in the Mission League, Jesus moved
into an administrative position with the
Fraternidad League.
After 3 years as Vice President, in 2004
he was elected President, a position
that he still holds. During the league’s
financially difficult times, Jesus would
personally finance multiple teams
and individual players so they could
continue to play the game he grew
up with and cherished. His strong
leadership contributions continue to
make the Fraternidad League one
of the strongest affiliated leagues in
CSA-N.
Along with being the President of
the Fraternidad League, Jesus still
coaches for U10-U12 in the Mission and
Jamestown Youth Leagues.
Jesus has received numerous awards
for his contributions to helping youth in
his community.
~o~
“Success is no accident.
It is hard work,
perseverance, learning,
studying, sacrifice and
most of all, love of what
you are doing or learning
to do.” - Pelé

10. The Player
César Piña was born on January
24, 1938 in Lima, Perú. Growing up
during the golden era of soccer in
Perú, César started practicing soccer
very early in childhood. As a youth,
César was quite a gifted athlete. At
the age of 10, he experienced his
first City Championship, playing
with his neighborhood team. In the
early fifties he saw many of the best
soccer players in the world , like
Di Stephano, Pedernera, Julinho,
Delgado, Didi, Adhemir, Ornazabal,
Sivory, Rossi, Terry, Gómez Sánchez,
Heredia, Drago, Valeriano, Puskas,
and many more. In 1953 he played
at the inauguration of the National
Stadium in Perú. At age 14, César
Competed against the 1950 world
champions, the Uruguayan National
Team in a practice game in Lima,
Perú. Before immigrating to the USA,
he was pre-selected for the Peruvian
under 20 National Team to the
Olympic Games in Rome, 1960.
In 1960, César immigrated to the
United States arriving in Miami
with the idea of not to play soccer
ever again, however, that plan
did not last long. Five days after
arriving to his new country he
joined the Miami Select Team and
started a new totally soccer era in
his life. He moved to Washington
D.C. and played soccer with the
Inca Club. In 1961, he relocated to
San Francisco (where he was to
eventually settle down). His first
team was El Nacional, Mexican team
and playing with good players like
Emilio Flórez, Carlos Ortiz, Luqueño,
Bernardo Scoto and others became
1961 State Champions. Attending
the City College of San Francisco
César was selected All American
for two consecutive years and
played for the All Star East and
West game in addition, he played
with the legendary Club Perú
and took second place in the City
Championship. In 1962 he formed
part of the new team, Río Guayas,
where he was champions of the
Third Division.
Between 1966 and 1972 César played
for a number of Bay Area teams.
In 1967 he played briefly with the
Oakland Clippers, of the NASL.
In 1968 and 1969 he played with
Club Inca and Club Perú and from
1970 to 1972, he played for Club
Chile winning the State Cup twice.
Although César has retired from
playing soccer he did venture during
the launching of the new old-timers
league. Playing under the Sons of
Italy team, he participated in the
championship team of the inaugural
years of the Papy Footbal League
1981. All these years he Belonged to
USSF as a player.
A Referee is Born
In 1972, César began his career as
a Referee quite by chance. Long
time soccer pals, Mario Moro and
Dan Boyle convince him to referee
a child’s game as a substitute. The
experience wetted his appetite
and thus, a referee was born. César
has found refereeing challenging,
exciting sport at the local, national
and international levels. He worked
the defunct North American Soccer
League, American Soccer League
and the Latin American Futbol
Soccer League and continued
officiating in the SFSFL, the Papy
League and La Fraternidad League.
Simultaneously, he officiated college
soccer with NISOA and WCISOA
from 1974 through 2000, traveling to
colleges and university around the
West Coast, nowadays he officiates
high school soccer around the Bay
Area and the Golden Gate Women
Soccer League.
César Piña
PRESIDENT’S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

11. To better himself in the sport,
César attended numerous regional
and national clinics in his efforts
to reach International Referee and
National Assessor and Instructor
levels. In 1976, he officiated his first
international game, between Rome
(Italy) and Atlante (Mexico), at the
old Kezar Stadium in San Francisco;
he retired from international games
in 1994 officiating a match between
Real Madrid (Spain) and Cologne
(Germany), at the Spartan Stadium
in San Jose. In 1982 César entered
the Guinness Book of World Records
having worked the longest game
in the history of amateur soccer
with Mr. John Schuster, Sr. The
game was between Bellarmine High
School of San Jose and St. Ignatius
Preparatory School of San Francisco
at the Matt Boxer Stadium, formerly
Balboa Stadium. The game was
suspended after 4 hours and 56
minutes, only because the players
were dehydrating and getting sick.
During his prime years as a referee
he represented California Soccer
Association North ate the enior
Region IV Finals for five years and
the Youth Region IV Finals once.
César happily referees when invited
to soccer related fundraisers and
benefits.
The Administrator in him
Although César is really a referee at
heart, he loves the sport and wants
to give back to younger players and
referees, so he ventured into soccer
administration. He moved on to
instructing and giving clinics in an
effort to help referees and coaches
to improve their officiating skills.
Under California Soccer Association
he has worked hundreds of bilingual
soccer clinics for both referees and
coaches, and worked instructing
coaches with license D with George
Hartzopolous, around the Bay Area.
With the Latin American Soccer
League he served as Board Member
and as Commissioner in different
capacities for many years. He started
the Hall of Fame in 1984, worked as
Chairman of the Hall Fame Annual
Dinner Dance for eight consecutive.
Today, César remains active in soccer
as a National Assessor. He frequently
reviews referees in an effort to pass
on his knowledge to the young and
coming group of Bay Area officials.
In addition, César also serves as a
pro-bono consultant to the Hispanic
radio, television and print media on
the interpretation and modifications
of the laws of the game.
Among César’s fondest
Achievements:
1966
César was inducted to the Latin
American Futbol Soccer League’s
Hall of Fame
1997
César was inducted to the California
Soccer Association North’s Hall of
Fame
2005
César was inducted to the Soccer
Old Timers Association’s Hall of
Fame
César is very grateful to his mentors
Rigo Bolaños, Ted Cordery, Vicente
Estébanez, Mario Moro and Ricardo
Quintanilla, may they rest in peace.
~o~
“How could you have a
soccer team if all were
goalkeepers? How would
it be an orchestra if all
were French horns?”
- Desmond Tutu

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13. Jim Lucey
Antonio Cervone
Juan Fuentes
Raul Mercado
Roger Boschetti
John T. Davis
Richard Markovich
Jose Ferreira
Johnny Moore
Julio Cesar Piña
Larry Boldrini
Leopoldo Catter
George Hatzopoulos
Omar Hindiyeh
Victor Ottoboni
James Zylker
William Delgado
Des Connor
Giuseppi Battaglini
Eliodoro Rivera
David Jones
Tim Weyland
Fernando Alvarez
Scott Weyland
Abraham Ramirez
Daniel Van Voorhis
Leo Shoomiloff
Paul Nikol
Cornelius Fitzgerald
John Brodie
Hugo Perez
Milton Woods
Ricardo Olivas
Jose Moreno
Bert Terry
Peter Bridgewater
Sam Singh
David Simmons
Diane Brown
Barbara Elliott
Janice Mullen
Karekin Kardzair
Clay Berling
Lynn Berling-Manuel
Dan Salvemini
John Murillo
Lennie Salvemini
Kari Seitz
Jesús Salmerón
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give a very special “Thank You” to the Hall of Fame
Committee and the DoubleTree By Hilton for their
tireless efforts to prepare this years event.
CSAN Hall of Fame Committee
Alicia Yanow (Co-Chair)
Corinne Moya (Co-Chair)
Pedro Pablo Rico
Norma Sánchez
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15. Executive Board
Ric Olivas, President
Sean McNulty, Vice President
Nina Gann, Treasurer
Jan Mullen, Secretary
Carlos Mejia, Member At-Large
Juan Zaldana, Member At-Large
Committee Chairs
Sean McNulty, Budget Chairman
Paul Pattison, Technology Chairman
Pedro Pablo Rico, Growth & Innovation Chairman
Alicia Yanow, Hall of Fame Co-Chairwoman
Corinne Moya, Hall of Fame, Co-Chairwoman
Carlos Mejia, Disciplinary Chairman
Leo Shoomiloff, National Cups Commissioner
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