What's going on with FCBEscola NOVA?

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Anonymous wrote:BARCA has been full of crap since day one. We left over the winter after 1.5 years. Don't believe the hype the folks here toss out.

Communication is horrible, they keep tossing out the word family, but yet there is not interaction between the coach and parent. They aren't competitive (not because of coaching) due to the player pool, lots of kids left over from Evergreen which was a crap club. What you have a is group of adults who love the idea of their kid playing for Barca, the same badge worn by Messi.

If you took their coaches and fed them a player pool that you would find with one of the bigger clubs, then you have something. Until then, you have a good program with players that cannot execute.

You left a club with admittedly good coaching because the player pool wasn’t good enough and you didn’t have a direct relationship with the coach? I’m curious how did your player feel about the experience? Was he/she developing?

My child was learning from the coaches but could never get more than a few passes before others on the team collapsed. How can you develop when you are stuck with a team that can't execute simple drills. Go watch, some of the teams are pretty good and can ball, others (if you are lucky to be placed with them) don't understand the basics. Just to be clear, we left at the request of my child, I paid in full and would have preferred to stick it out.

Another Barca parent here—helps to point out that despite the coaches having the same kind of training, there are different backgrounds (some from Spain, but many others former local area coaches) and not all are as effective at communicating and teaching the desired style of play. Which is also true of other clubs, but should be noted here. This may help to explain the lack of consistency between teams.

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As much as I like the coaching methodology, I am seriously considering leaving the club. My kid is passionate about the game and works hard in every game/practice, but many of his teammates don't come to practices and games. I can certainly understand that there may be significant differences in player quality between different teams or even within the same team, but I don't understand why complete lack of commitment is tolerated.

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Anonymous wrote:As much as I like the coaching methodology, I am seriously considering leaving the club. My kid is passionate about the game and works hard in every game/practice, but many of his teammates don't come to practices and games. I can certainly understand that there may be significant differences in player quality between different teams or even within the same team, but I don't understand why complete lack of commitment is tolerated.

I know some players on a team have been out quite a bit over the winter due to other sports like swimming and basketball. Hoping the commitment picks back up for the spring. I don’t think it’s a terrible thing to take a break over the winter to do a different activity if they come back refreshed and committed

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because it is a low-key program to begin with

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Anonymous wrote:because it is a low-key program to begin with

I wouldn’t say Barcelona is a “low key” organization. Seems a good number of parents/kids there may be though, from these descriptions.

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ODSL divisions have been posted.

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Anonymous wrote:because it is a low-key program to begin with

I wouldn’t say Barcelona is a “low key” organization. Seems a good number of parents/kids there may be though, from these descriptions.

Yes. Very refreshing after being many at other Clubs where parents are wound so tight they could polish a nickel between their ass cheeks. Don’t miss those sidelines.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:because it is a low-key program to begin with

I wouldn’t say Barcelona is a “low key” organization. Seems a good number of parents/kids there may be though, from these descriptions.

Yes. Very refreshing after being many at other Clubs where parents are wound so tight they could polish a nickel between their ass cheeks. Don’t miss those sidelines.

Right, poor practice attendance is refreshing because you had to share sidelines with a couple high strung parents at your previous club?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:because it is a low-key program to begin with

I wouldn’t say Barcelona is a “low key” organization. Seems a good number of parents/kids there may be though, from these descriptions.

Yes. Very refreshing after being many at other Clubs where parents are wound so tight they could polish a nickel between their ass cheeks. Don’t miss those sidelines.

Right, poor practice attendance is refreshing because you had to share sidelines with a couple high strung parents at your previous club?

There is not an attendance problem on the first teams that I’ve seen. We have 3 kids in the program and the EDP first teams have a full roster every practice/game.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:because it is a low-key program to begin with

I wouldn’t say Barcelona is a “low key” organization. Seems a good number of parents/kids there may be though, from these descriptions.

Yes. Very refreshing after being many at other Clubs where parents are wound so tight they could polish a nickel between their ass cheeks. Don’t miss those sidelines.

Right, poor practice attendance is refreshing because you had to share sidelines with a couple high strung parents at your previous club?

There is not an attendance problem on the first teams that I’ve seen. We have 3 kids in the program and the EDP first teams have a full roster every practice/game.

There is not an attendance problem on most teams. I have 2 kids on non-EDP teams and practices have been well attended even over the winter. I don’t doubt that there could be teams with less attendance but it isn’t widespread. There are always some bad apples. Hopefully will lose some of the bad ones through attrition

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:because it is a low-key program to begin with

I wouldn’t say Barcelona is a “low key” organization. Seems a good number of parents/kids there may be though, from these descriptions.

Yes. Very refreshing after being many at other Clubs where parents are wound so tight they could polish a nickel between their ass cheeks. Don’t miss those sidelines.

Right, poor practice attendance is refreshing because you had to share sidelines with a couple high strung parents at your previous club?

There are parents “wound so tight they could polish a nickel between their ass cheeks” everywhere, Barça included. The tightly would rear ends are due to parents who think their poo doesn’t stink, and you find them chasing various ideals, based on their opinions. The rear and grinders that idolize the Spanish game happen to be there. The poorly attended training is a different matter. Those parents just don’t care. They exist other places too.

[Anonymous]

Barca needs to reduce its pricing by about $1500 or more to attract better talent and be consistently competitive against stronger teams. Otherwise, they will continue to have wildly inconsistent talent fluctuations within their player pool. They currently do well against low to mid-level competition, but get beat in higher level tournaments/leagues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Barca needs to reduce its pricing by about $1500 or more to attract better talent and be consistently competitive against stronger teams. Otherwise, they will continue to have wildly inconsistent talent fluctuations within their player pool. They currently do well against low to mid-level competition, but get beat in higher level tournaments/leagues.

Seems like they are building teams at a reasonable rate. This is what - their second or third year? DS plays u-13 and I have noticed the Barca Academy team in some tournament brackets and they are performing respectably.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Barca needs to reduce its pricing by about $1500 or more to attract better talent and be consistently competitive against stronger teams. Otherwise, they will continue to have wildly inconsistent talent fluctuations within their player pool. They currently do well against low to mid-level competition, but get beat in higher level tournaments/leagues.

Seems like they are building teams at a reasonable rate. This is what - their second or third year? DS plays u-13 and I have noticed the Barca Academy team in some tournament brackets and they are performing respectably.

It's only been 1.5 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barca needs to reduce its pricing by about $1500 or more to attract better talent and be consistently competitive against stronger teams. Otherwise, they will continue to have wildly inconsistent talent fluctuations within their player pool. They currently do well against low to mid-level competition, but get beat in higher level tournaments/leagues.

Seems like they are building teams at a reasonable rate. This is what - their second or third year? DS plays u-13 and I have noticed the Barca Academy team in some tournament brackets and they are performing respectably.

It's only been 1.5 years.

Impressive. Too bad DA is going to disappear, I am sure Barca would have had many teams there in a couple of years.