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PSA Elite

American amateur soccer club based in Irvine, California

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ20017996 ↗
Source-derived summary

PSA Elite is an American amateur soccer club based in Irvine, California that plays in the So Cal Premier of the United States Adult Soccer Association. The club is best known for their runs in both the 2014 and the 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cups, when the team knocked out professional teams and reached the fourth round of each tournament.

Editorial summary

“PSA Elite” enters the record as american amateur soccer club based in Irvine, California. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Elite, American and amateur can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Elite, American and amateur.
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Why this record matters

“PSA Elite” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Elite, American and amateur provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20017996. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “PSA Elite” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.