Achilles

[Anonymous]

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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.

Because video with audio and league results along with multiple eye-witnesses aren't credible sources

[Anonymous]

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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?

Oh no. I’m right over the target.

Now please go away. Your incessant whining is tiresome.

[Anonymous]

Hard to argue with the video

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hard to argue with the video

excellent. let's argue about the video. re-post it and point to the minutes where you see abuse and why. Then we can talk about it. it'll be good to know exactly what you see as abuse.

[Anonymous]

New parent. What video. Considering Achilles. Is there A team movement? My kid is 12 boy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New parent. What video. Considering Achilles. Is there A team movement? My kid is 12 boy.

All clubs will take A team players. Spend the spring practicing with the teams ur kid wants to get on so come tryouts, u have an idea as to whether they’ll be placed on the top team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sal is absolutely the worst coach in the area! My son left his “MLS team” …his choice, without the influence of his parents. Although, we were ready to get him out of there! Sal creates the most toxic environment for the players. Cussing and yelling at young players is unacceptable.
Sal also runs practices that are with many teams at once and it is a complete mess. As a parent, you will never have consistency on where you take your child to practice. Sal and his club are the most disorganized club in the area. Sal won’t play in local tournaments because of the fact his teams always loose and that would just prove his “coaching” is not successful. In all truth, Sal is just a big bully who has a disillusioned lens on his club…Achilles MLS is a joke. They constantly loose, and not by a little and then Sal yells at players.
I have personally been a witness to Sal making fun of his players ( saying they run like girls) in front of other players. So, just a heads up to any parent thinking about having your son play in an absolute toxic and unhealthy environment…please think twice! A “MLS” badge doesn’t mean anything if you can’t even compete in the league!
My son was a starter on his team, a good naturally talented player recognized by many coaches for his talent….thankfully he left before this crazy lunatic Sal ruined him! I seriously hope that parents will put their children’s wellbeing before a “label”…there are many other avenues you can take to get your child to play for college or professional. Sal is just like a used salesman that is trying to “sell” parents on something that is false.
Before making a choice to play for this club, do your research as a parent! Go to a game, watch Sal’s behavior, watch the players faces as they come off the field. Also, look at their stats and how they loose BIG time at every match….don’t buy into a complete mess like I did without doing your homework!

Your kid didn’t make the cut. Move on.

[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.

Our EXACT experience on B team every single word. Kids are awful to each other.

[Anonymous]

It’s a great experience. Above is just garbage.

[Anonymous]

Who’ll Achilles have a MLSN U15 and U17 next year? Or are they still banned?

[Anonymous]

My son did Achilles for the past year and won't be going back in the fall, along with 8 of his 11 teammates. This was our first travel soccer experience--it was horrible. I'm curious if all travel clubs have similar issues? They ranged from bad communication (no one ever answers emails, including the head when you have concerns), coaches don't show up for games or come late (in the fall, one game no coach came, several others they came quite late), and they cancel practice (that we've paid for with the expensive fee of thousands of dollars) and then schedule a technical training session at the same location for $50 the same day/time. Also they never signed up the team for the end of year tournament (they "forgot"), so the boys couldn't play--which would have cost the team several hundred dollars to register. So the horrible soccer program who "forgot" to register the team gets to keep that money, and the boys don't get an end of season tournament. Are all clubs this bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son did Achilles for the past year and won't be going back in the fall, along with 8 of his 11 teammates. This was our first travel soccer experience--it was horrible. I'm curious if all travel clubs have similar issues? They ranged from bad communication (no one ever answers emails, including the head when you have concerns), coaches don't show up for games or come late (in the fall, one game no coach came, several others they came quite late), and they cancel practice (that we've paid for with the expensive fee of thousands of dollars) and then schedule a technical training session at the same location for $50 the same day/time. Also they never signed up the team for the end of year tournament (they "forgot"), so the boys couldn't play--which would have cost the team several hundred dollars to register. So the horrible soccer program who "forgot" to register the team gets to keep that money, and the boys don't get an end of season tournament. Are all clubs this bad?

No, just Achilles.
This club is an utter mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who’ll Achilles have a MLSN U15 and U17 next year? Or are they still banned?

What does this mean?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who’ll Achilles have a MLSN U15 and U17 next year? Or are they still banned?

What does this mean?

They won't have U15 next year, like this year, but I don't think they're "banned." Not all MLS Next clubs have every age group. Their U16s might be really good next year, as a lot of their 2009 players played up into that age group last season and they'll likely add some key players.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who’ll Achilles have a MLSN U15 and U17 next year? Or are they still banned?

What does this mean?

They won't have U15 next year, like this year, but I don't think they're "banned." Not all MLS Next clubs have every age group. Their U16s might be really good next year, as a lot of their 2009 players played up into that age group last season and they'll likely add some key players.

The quality of the players isn't the reason for poor performance of all teams there