Los Angeles Salsa

Los Angeles Salsa
Full nameLos Angeles Salsa Professional Soccer Club
Nickname(s)LA Salsa
Founded1992
Dissolved1995
StadiumTitan Stadium
Fullerton, California
Capacity10,000
OwnerWilliam De La Pena
General ManagerRick Davis
CoachRildo da Costa Menezes (1993)
Rick Davis (1994–1995)
LeagueAmerican Professional Soccer League
1994 APSL2nd

The Los Angeles Salsa was an American soccer team based in Los Angeles that played in the American Professional Soccer League (APSL) and the USISL Pro League. The club played on the campus of California State University, Fullerton at Titan Stadium in Orange County, California, from 1993 to 1994. They also played home games at Weingart Stadium on the campus of East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, California, in 1994 and various high schools in 1995.

The club, founded in 1992, was owned by ophthalmologist William De La Pena and entered the APSL in 1993 as an expansion team. They hosted the APSL Championship, which they lost to the Colorado Foxes; the Salsa played in the 1994 CONCACAF Champions' Cup and were eliminated in the second round. The team left the APSL in January 1995 after plans to play in Mexico's Primera División A fell apart due to opposition from CONCACAF.[1] The Salsa played for one season in the USISL Pro League before folding in 1996.

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