Strategy Cup Soccer
After a torn Achilles tendon forced a year away from playing, the game did not stop. It changed form. Strategy Cup Soccer became an early attempt to turn soccer into a playable strategy board game.
View projectSoccerMagic was never just one project.
SoccerMagic is the name that connects a lifetime of work: a soccer board game, a magazine, a club, a book, educational software, coaching tools, game-day media, and small businesses built around teams, players, coaches, students, and community.
Some projects became public. Some stayed small. Some made money. Some simply helped people. Together, they tell the story of building useful things and keeping them alive long after their first moment passed.
Built from problems, not theory.
Soccer Magic Magazine
Before social media and online soccer coverage, Soccer Magic Magazine gave Northern California soccer stories, teams, players, and events a printed home.
View archiveReal San Jose
Real San Jose became the largest and longest-running SoccerMagic project: an independent adult soccer club built through persistence, travel, hard lessons, and twenty seasons of work.
View RSJRoughDraftApp
Created from classroom experience, RoughDraftApp helped students learn how to organize a proper five-paragraph essay. It is now being preserved as a free educational resource.
View guideThe work changed with the tools.
In the early years, publishing meant typesetting, printing, driving across town, laying out pages, and physically getting work into stores or into people’s hands. Later came websites, digital files, software, online video, and tools that could be built and shared from a desk.
The tools changed. The basic idea did not. SoccerMagic kept trying to solve practical problems: how to explain the game, how to promote teams, how to help students write, how to run a better game-day experience, how to help coaches communicate what they already know.
That is why the archive includes more than soccer. It includes education, media, writing, music, small business, and software. They are not separate stories. They are different chapters of the same habit: build the thing that is needed.
Active projects and preserved work.
SoccerMagic Strategy Board
A coaching tool built around speed, control, and communication. Coaches can draw their own ideas, animate sessions, export videos, and build their own personal coaching libraries.
View projectRSJ Game-Day Announcer
A local HTML game-day audio tool used by Real San Jose to make stadium announcements easier, cleaner, and more entertaining without a live microphone announcer.
View projectStores and services
Woven Patch Store and The Vinyl Banner Store grew from real team and event needs: patches, banners, identity, promotion, and practical support for organizations.
View storesThe archive matters because the work lasted.
SoccerMagic.com is being rebuilt as a simple, static HTML archive so the work can remain available without depending on databases, plugins, social platforms, or systems that break when nobody is watching them. The goal is simple: preserve the record, share the tools, and show how the chapters connect.