Achilles

[Anonymous]

For the Achille's parents who's posting 'they don't see anything wrong', please take some time and watch the game play.

We have thought about moving to Achille's but after the last two games we've played against them and seeing how the coach will yell and scream at the kids, we decided it is not the environment we want our son to be in.

It is amazing to see the parents just stand there and take the verbal abuse from the coach.

[Anonymous]

Don't have a dog in this fight, but just curious as to how you define abuse? Is it the volume? Is it the choice of words?

A coach yelling instructions (Specific relevant information, not negative or positive), is that abuse?

A coach saying that something is not good enough?

Did you hear name calling, bullying, shaming?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't have a dog in this fight, but just curious as to how you define abuse? Is it the volume? Is it the choice of words?

A coach yelling instructions (Specific relevant information, not negative or positive), is that abuse?

A coach saying that something is not good enough?

Did you hear name calling, bullying, shaming?

yes yes yes and cursing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't have a dog in this fight, but just curious as to how you define abuse? Is it the volume? Is it the choice of words?

A coach yelling instructions (Specific relevant information, not negative or positive), is that abuse?

A coach saying that something is not good enough?

Did you hear name calling, bullying, shaming?

yes yes yes and cursing

Good grief. You are exhausting. Any time I see a thread about Achilles, along comes the pearl clutching man-boy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't have a dog in this fight, but just curious as to how you define abuse? Is it the volume? Is it the choice of words?

A coach yelling instructions (Specific relevant information, not negative or positive), is that abuse?

A coach saying that something is not good enough?

Did you hear name calling, bullying, shaming?

yes yes yes and cursing

Good grief. You are exhausting. Any time I see a thread about Achilles, along comes the pearl clutching man-boy.

I've witnessed everything everyone says. He treats those boys like their his college buddies. As a parent, it's horrible to watch. He's also run kids into the ground so that they have major knee issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't have a dog in this fight, but just curious as to how you define abuse? Is it the volume? Is it the choice of words?

A coach yelling instructions (Specific relevant information, not negative or positive), is that abuse?

A coach saying that something is not good enough?

Did you hear name calling, bullying, shaming?

yes yes yes and cursing

Good grief. You are exhausting. Any time I see a thread about Achilles, along comes the pearl clutching man-boy.

when you can't dispute the facts, you go for name calling behind the safety of anonymity
who's the boy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't have a dog in this fight, but just curious as to how you define abuse? Is it the volume? Is it the choice of words?

A coach yelling instructions (Specific relevant information, not negative or positive), is that abuse?

A coach saying that something is not good enough?

Did you hear name calling, bullying, shaming?

yes yes yes and cursing

Good grief. You are exhausting. Any time I see a thread about Achilles, along comes the pearl clutching man-boy.

when you can't dispute the facts, you go for name calling behind the safety of anonymity
who's the boy

Dispute facts?

Here is something pretty close to what happened I suspect: Your kid wasn’t good. Got cycled out one way or another because he wasn’t good. Daddy (or mommy) log on at any opportunity and blame coach and coaching style.

[Anonymous]

Sal screwing over the 2007 team, again?

He got the 2007 team kicked out of the 2007 MLS Next division so now they have to play U19? How do parents keep following this guy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sal screwing over the 2007 team, again?

He got the 2007 team kicked out of the 2007 MLS Next division so now they have to play U19? How do parents keep following this guy?

It is curious. Achilles's 2009 and 2007 teams got the club into MLS Next. And now it doesn't have either age group. I suspect it has U13, U14, U16, and U19 so it can play some of the 2007s and 2009s both up a year and down a year ("bio-banding") in order to get the numbers needed to field competitive squads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't have a dog in this fight, but just curious as to how you define abuse? Is it the volume? Is it the choice of words?

A coach yelling instructions (Specific relevant information, not negative or positive), is that abuse?

A coach saying that something is not good enough?

Did you hear name calling, bullying, shaming?

yes yes yes and cursing

Good grief. You are exhausting. Any time I see a thread about Achilles, along comes the pearl clutching man-boy.

when you can't dispute the facts, you go for name calling behind the safety of anonymity
who's the boy

Dispute facts?

Here is something pretty close to what happened I suspect: Your kid wasn’t good. Got cycled out one way or another because he wasn’t good. Daddy (or mommy) log on at any opportunity and blame coach and coaching style.

You working on a fiction novel?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sal screwing over the 2007 team, again?

He got the 2007 team kicked out of the 2007 MLS Next division so now they have to play U19? How do parents keep following this guy?

It is curious. Achilles's 2009 and 2007 teams got the club into MLS Next. And now it doesn't have either age group. I suspect it has U13, U14, U16, and U19 so it can play some of the 2007s and 2009s both up a year and down a year ("bio-banding") in order to get the numbers needed to field competitive squads.

Sounds like this guy should become an absentee owner and distance himself from the day to day.
Bring in good coaches and a respectable manager.

They seem to have decent players and facilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sal screwing over the 2007 team, again?

He got the 2007 team kicked out of the 2007 MLS Next division so now they have to play U19? How do parents keep following this guy?

It is curious. Achilles's 2009 and 2007 teams got the club into MLS Next. And now it doesn't have either age group. I suspect it has U13, U14, U16, and U19 so it can play some of the 2007s and 2009s both up a year and down a year ("bio-banding") in order to get the numbers needed to field competitive squads.

Sounds like this guy should become an absentee owner and distance himself from the day to day.
Bring in good coaches and a respectable manager.

They seem to have decent players and facilities.

They don't just "have" decent players. They trained those players.

[Anonymous]

We are part of a b team. Coaches definitely throw around curses including the F word… Yes, I’m a mom but I have a young kid and it’s really bad example especially when it’s focused shaming them. It encourages the kids not to be so great with each other also. I think they’re good at training individuals except the comment about running the kids too hard is also our experience. My kid loves it but I can’t imagine it being good for their knees. In fact, I’ve heard this a few times from other parents.
They don’t win very many games across the board. I’d say a weakness is cultivating a team. We have friends who play for the DC, soccer club, and the team camaraderie and success is much higher. They also win - not sure why Achilles never wins. They definitely develop kid individually but I don’t think they have cracked the case on figuring out how to create good teams. They’ve had a really long time to do it so I’m not sure what’s up. This is our last year. We are moving to another club. I’m sure all of them have issues but the ones we’ve experienced have been repeated for so long that we’re not into it anymore. I have a kid who sometimes plays with the A-Team, but the way that they run the whole thing seems very uneven especially for a kid who really loves the sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are part of a b team. Coaches definitely throw around curses including the F word… Yes, I’m a mom but I have a young kid and it’s really bad example especially when it’s focused shaming them. It encourages the kids not to be so great with each other also. I think they’re good at training individuals except the comment about running the kids too hard is also our experience. My kid loves it but I can’t imagine it being good for their knees. In fact, I’ve heard this a few times from other parents.
They don’t win very many games across the board. I’d say a weakness is cultivating a team. We have friends who play for the DC, soccer club, and the team camaraderie and success is much higher. They also win - not sure why Achilles never wins. They definitely develop kid individually but I don’t think they have cracked the case on figuring out how to create good teams. They’ve had a really long time to do it so I’m not sure what’s up. This is our last year. We are moving to another club. I’m sure all of them have issues but the ones we’ve experienced have been repeated for so long that we’re not into it anymore. I have a kid who sometimes plays with the A-Team, but the way that they run the whole thing seems very uneven especially for a kid who really loves the sport.

This is totally fair. Thank you for sharing your experience. Much more credible than the Achilles is worthless / "and the cursing" posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sal screwing over the 2007 team, again?

He got the 2007 team kicked out of the 2007 MLS Next division so now they have to play U19? How do parents keep following this guy?

It is curious. Achilles's 2009 and 2007 teams got the club into MLS Next. And now it doesn't have either age group. I suspect it has U13, U14, U16, and U19 so it can play some of the 2007s and 2009s both up a year and down a year ("bio-banding") in order to get the numbers needed to field competitive squads.

Sounds like this guy should become an absentee owner and distance himself from the day to day.
Bring in good coaches and a respectable manager.

They seem to have decent players and facilities.

They don't just "have" decent players. They trained those players.

Get da bleep outta here trying to paint a false narrative that Achilles is taking all rocks and making them into gems
The same club that has every team on every level age group getting lopsided defeats on a consistent basis

You couldn't just take the objective win that they have some good players in the bunch.