Copa Talento - What your DMV Club Does Not Want you to know

[Anonymous]

I took my son to Copa Talento in Richmond VA for the first time and let me just say, this is the reason most DMV clubs do not want you to know about this tournament. First games this Friday and the kevel of play, speed of play is on a whole different level. Your DMV club has been fooling parents that their boys are great soccer players until they go to one of these tournaments and realize they have been spoonfed a lie.

Bethesda Soccer Club even sent a warning to players not to go because of player conduct bs. The real reason is because they can't compete.

I saw college scouts there and even scouts from Latin American countries.

Watch all coaches and directors from the DMV start to comment here to discredit Copa Talento.

Parents, I dare you to bring your son next year. It will be an eye opener for sure.

Happy 4th!

[Anonymous]

These seem to be mostly teams put together by coaches who do private training and invite their kids that do private training and reach out to other kids who can play at that level.

Also, lots of instagram kids are playing… if something get an instagram buzz, a lot of those families reach out to those coaches to get their kids on those teams.

[Anonymous]

Thank you! You cracked the case. It’s a giant conspiracy by DMV coaches to keep us from knowing about Copa Talento.

[Anonymous]

In DS's age group, he plays/trains with kids on almost all of the teams. So we basically drove 2 hours and paid an entry fee to play each other. That said, the vibe is a lot of fun and the tournament seems better organized this year than it has in the past.

[Anonymous]

Quality of play is solid depending on the age group. U-little have a lot of insta kids with absolutely insane sideline parents. U-12 and older have considerably fewer insta-kids if any.

(Pro tip, the scouts are not watching the insta-kids, because they don’t know how to play football, they’re trained to give psycho-mom 10-30s of footage).

Girls play starts today, so that is when the insta-kids will really flood the zone. Yesterday there is one girl on a boys team from
NC that is probably the best u-little soccer player I’ve seen, boy or girl, taking it to the boys. Really impressive and had all of the scouts watching her PM match. IQ was top tier for a youth player.

Older boys were a variety of play. Lots of disorganized teams with one or two extremely capable players that are very talented but on meh teams. Some true standouts. The U15 Amigos team was a lot of fun to watch, they really love the game and were more creative than most youth teams I’ve seen. Lots of scout attention going to that entire team yesterday.

As previous poster mentioned, lots of ad hoc “trainer built” teams. And way too many white people for what Copa Talento is supposed to be providing an opportunity. This has changed a lot over the past couple of years. But CT has also evolved. This year is much better organized than last, and despite all the white people and attention whorish parents, the Latin festival atmosphere has kept CT as a unique gem of a tournament for youth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you! You cracked the case. It’s a giant conspiracy by DMV coaches to keep us from knowing about Copa Talento.

It’s not on sincsport. That’s why nobody knows about it. It is marketed via its instagram and Latino whatsapp groups. The point isn’t to provide an opportunity to your kids pre-academy or MLSN team. But to Latin league teams and players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quality of play is solid depending on the age group. U-little have a lot of insta kids with absolutely insane sideline parents. U-12 and older have considerably fewer insta-kids if any.

(Pro tip, the scouts are not watching the insta-kids, because they don’t know how to play football, they’re trained to give psycho-mom 10-30s of footage).

Girls play starts today, so that is when the insta-kids will really flood the zone. Yesterday there is one girl on a boys team from
NC that is probably the best u-little soccer player I’ve seen, boy or girl, taking it to the boys. Really impressive and had all of the scouts watching her PM match. IQ was top tier for a youth player.

Older boys were a variety of play. Lots of disorganized teams with one or two extremely capable players that are very talented but on meh teams. Some true standouts. The U15 Amigos team was a lot of fun to watch, they really love the game and were more creative than most youth teams I’ve seen. Lots of scout attention going to that entire team yesterday.

As previous poster mentioned, lots of ad hoc “trainer built” teams. And way too many white people for what Copa Talento is supposed to be providing an opportunity. This has changed a lot over the past couple of years. But CT has also evolved. This year is much better organized than last, and despite all the white people and attention whorish parents, the Latin festival atmosphere has kept CT as a unique gem of a tournament for youth.

Doesn’t sound racist at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I took my son to Copa Talento in Richmond VA for the first time and let me just say, this is the reason most DMV clubs do not want you to know about this tournament. First games this Friday and the kevel of play, speed of play is on a whole different level. Your DMV club has been fooling parents that their boys are great soccer players until they go to one of these tournaments and realize they have been spoonfed a lie.

Bethesda Soccer Club even sent a warning to players not to go because of player conduct bs. The real reason is because they can't compete.

I saw college scouts there and even scouts from Latin American countries.

Watch all coaches and directors from the DMV start to comment here to discredit Copa Talento.

Parents, I dare you to bring your son next year. It will be an eye opener for sure.

Happy 4th!

Troll post of the year. And since your son is clearly another Messi, the rest of us will be sure to stay away from such ferocious footballers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you! You cracked the case. It’s a giant conspiracy by DMV coaches to keep us from knowing about Copa Talento.

It’s not on sincsport. That’s why nobody knows about it. It is marketed via its instagram and Latino whatsapp groups. The point isn’t to provide an opportunity to your kids pre-academy or MLSN team. But to Latin league teams and players.

No one knows about it? I think this is the third thread about it in the past month…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quality of play is solid depending on the age group. U-little have a lot of insta kids with absolutely insane sideline parents. U-12 and older have considerably fewer insta-kids if any.

(Pro tip, the scouts are not watching the insta-kids, because they don’t know how to play football, they’re trained to give psycho-mom 10-30s of footage).

Girls play starts today, so that is when the insta-kids will really flood the zone. Yesterday there is one girl on a boys team from
NC that is probably the best u-little soccer player I’ve seen, boy or girl, taking it to the boys. Really impressive and had all of the scouts watching her PM match. IQ was top tier for a youth player.

Older boys were a variety of play. Lots of disorganized teams with one or two extremely capable players that are very talented but on meh teams. Some true standouts. The U15 Amigos team was a lot of fun to watch, they really love the game and were more creative than most youth teams I’ve seen. Lots of scout attention going to that entire team yesterday.

As previous poster mentioned, lots of ad hoc “trainer built” teams. And way too many white people for what Copa Talento is supposed to be providing an opportunity. This has changed a lot over the past couple of years. But CT has also evolved. This year is much better organized than last, and despite all the white people and attention whorish parents, the Latin festival atmosphere has kept CT as a unique gem of a tournament for youth.

Why does it hurt you so much that white kids can play soccer as well as other groups?

[Anonymous]

Re PP. It is more an issue of a bunch of white insta parents co-opting and event that was intended to be a celebration of Latino culture with trainer organized and all star private training team. Its the only way to BE, right?

[Anonymous]

My experience is that Latin leagues arent very structured and losing teams will get dangerous to play against at the end of the game when players go headhunting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Re PP. It is more an issue of a bunch of white insta parents co-opting and event that was intended to be a celebration of Latino culture with trainer organized and all star private training team. Its the only way to BE, right?

Maybe blame the private trainers that invite the white kids to come in and play? Are you saying it’s the white parents fault that the Latino and black trainers bring white kids to play on their team? How ignorant are you? Latino kids don’t hav Instagram? That’s a lie.

You sound truly pathetic.

[Anonymous]

What a bunch of low intellect mouth-breathers to turn this into another racism, racial bias and negative stereotypes post

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Re PP. It is more an issue of a bunch of white insta parents co-opting and event that was intended to be a celebration of Latino culture with trainer organized and all star private training team. Its the only way to BE, right?

NP here. My nonlatino kid was asked by three different teams to join their team. So if you’re upset that white kids are now playing in it, blame the coaches.