Hampton Roads Soccer Council

With an oceanfront like Virginia Beach, you really ought to try sand soccer! With this casual 1992 recommendation by an UMBRO USA official to a Beach FC travel soccer club president, the concept of the North American Sand Soccer Championships started. At the time, UMBRO, a sponsor of the club's annual Columbus Day Tournament, had founded an informal amateur U. S. Sand Soccer Federation, concurrent with the establishment of the Professional Beach Soccer Tour in Europe and South America.