Jade Soccer Center

If you need soccer medals and trophies for the end of the season celebrations, this is the spot. They will do engraving too with enough time. I called them and they put together 12 medals for me in about an hour. Got to choose the ribbon too. Very nice people, great service, super price. We did not get the medals engraved but would do it next time with enough time. Support local businesses.

This is a small cramped store that I have passed by hundreds of time on MacArthur on the way to work. When my daughter was old enough to join a league, we stopped by to pick up cleats and a ball. The first appearance of the shop is a little off-​putting, but the service is quite wonderful. For example, we weren’t sure which size cleats would work, so they charged us for one pair and sent us home with two pair with the understanding that we would keep the better fit and return the other which we did a couple days later. You will see that kind of service only in a neighborhood shop, not a bigger regional/nat’l chain store.

I have been a customer of Jade’s for about 15 years. Love that we still have some mom and pops around. The owners are good people… the human touch is something that you will not get in an internet transaction.

Yup, it’s a small shop. Yup, it’s a bit out of the ordinary. But, go at the right time of day and you’ll be the only one there and you’ll get excellent service. They also have a youth summer soccer camp that is SO good. A random little shop with an exact purpose & friendly, all-​family staff. Can’t go wrong supporting a local business that knows it’s stuff!

Don’t be in a hurry. Really, just give yourself enough time because there is sure to be at least one soccer mom or dad in front of you who will take a very long time indeed to obsess over each and every item and all the sizes of the uniforms and how many socks they ordered and why some of the socks are not the right size. The shop itself — tiny, a bit hot, cramped, and filled with a great variety of soccer gear. The couple who run this place appear in a bit over their heads but I think this is just a survival tactic. I managed to get in and out pretty quickly with their seemingly chaotic yet somehow quick service. Do shop locally… and you don’t get much more local than Jade Soccer Center.

I ‘ve been hooking up my little people here with soccer cleats, socks and shin guards for about 8 years. They’ve got plenty crammed into a small space here, from cheap to higher end. I always like to shop locally, and while they always have what I need, i can’t say it’s a total pleasure, yet I can’t say I’ve ever left dissatisfied. The older woman who works they is nearly deaf and rarely cracks a smile. Her husband (presumably) can hear better but also is not partic friendly. But this little store has the goods and knows the colors of the local rec teams, whether you be in Rockridge green and yellow Montclair’s red and white. I will probably keep shopping here even though there’s a soccer mega store in nearby Alameda. They sponsor soccer camps in summer which I’ve heard good things about…