Villarreal Virginia Academy: imploding?

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Look at the oldest age groups to see what the “philosophy” brings out of players who are closest to the age of the senior Villarreal team in la liga or its reserve team. They predominantly just play direct to big/fast forwards.

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Anonymous wrote: Olympaicos DC Academy based in Falls Church/Annandale still has a couple of spots on 08 and 07 teams.

Here is the academy video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xj1uXHYAUA


https://olympiacosdc.com/

My son plays there for 05s and it is a great year-around program that includes monthly player evaluations, fitness testing and video/classroom sessions. We have been involved in travel soccer in the area for a number of years and never experienced anything like this. Olympiacos DC has only one team per age group and they really focus on player development - not on numbers. Wish all of the soccer parents best of luck!

Lol they had 9 players show up for the whole tournament!!!!!


I’m sure no one wants to play in ODSL

or for a Greek team at that.

And look at how an Viva team plays at "higher level" league performed at recent tournament. That is a big 0 - 4 record.

VIRGINIAN ELITE SOCCER TOURNAMENT 2019
Saturday, May 25, 2019
VILLARREAL VIRGINIA ACADEMY 2005 YELLOW 1 HERNDON YOUTH SOCCER CICLONES WHITE 3
FC DULLES UNITED ACADEMY GOLD 05 3 VILLARREAL VIRGINIA ACADEMY 2005 YELLOW 1
Sunday, May 26, 2019
VILLARREAL VIRGINIA ACADEMY 2005 YELLOW 0 HIGH PERFORMANCE HPSC BULLDOGS 05 2
OLYMPIACOS DC 05 BOYS 5 VILLARREAL VIRGINIA ACADEMY 2005 YELLOW 1

They had 9 players show up for the whole tournament!!!

Flat out lie.

[Anonymous]

you never know, some local kid from Annendale might be better than a kid in Spain who has been fully immersed in soccer every day of his life since he could walk.

[Anonymous]

Latest update from VIVA

Spain only knows Bo and Carlos and they have determined they have a valid contract with Annandale United Futbol Club (AUFC). The lawyers determined that there are sufficient legal documents showing that AUFC is owned by Bo; therefore, Bo (and Carlos) had the ability to create Villarreal Virginia Academy (VIVA) when they partnered with Villarreal CF Spain. Ergo, there remains a valid partnership between VIVA and Villarreal CF Spain that will continue.



Their main goal was to start to establish a relationship and grow the project (VIVA). It was a great effort by the coaches to transform into the Villarreal CF Spain methodology to: adapt, accept, and change.



Villarreal did not formally meet with ABGC until late October/early November 2018 when they had dinner. Villarreal has no agreement with ABGC. Nowhere in any contract with Villarreal CF Spain is "ABGC" mentioned.



It is anticipated that Juan, Julio's boss, will write something for the families in a few days (near future). I think we anticipate this will be something favorable.



Summer field permits are in place (Pine Ridge and Mason??)



Fall field permits are dependent on the # of registered players and location of these players. However, it is anticipated we will have fields in the same general vicinity, perhaps even the same fields.



Villarreal CF Spain plans to continue their VIVA development with video analysis of players and coaches. Julio may not return; however, he will direct the coaching staff that does come to train our coaches and players. They very much want to build on the success that makes VIVA special.



Julio showed a quick presentation that recapped the goal to "build partnerships" to grow the program. It included a slide on working to develop VIVA coaches and players. And it also included the slide (we have seen before) depicting the goals: soccer awareness football IQ; Character, leader; and Competence.



The "now" plan is to continue with a goal of let's see where we go...



It is anticipated they will return in the fall for shorter stays and follow us from Spain. Bo and Carlos came in later and committed to maintain a full-time Spanish presence with VIVA.



Bo and Carlos discussed that coaches still cannot openly/publicly discuss where they are going until this current contracts are finished, around June 16th when summer season commences.

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Anonymous wrote: Olympaicos DC Academy based in Falls Church/Annandale still has a couple of spots on 08 and 07 teams.

Here is the academy video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xj1uXHYAUA


https://olympiacosdc.com/

My son plays there for 05s and it is a great year-around program that includes monthly player evaluations, fitness testing and video/classroom sessions. We have been involved in travel soccer in the area for a number of years and never experienced anything like this. Olympiacos DC has only one team per age group and they really focus on player development - not on numbers. Wish all of the soccer parents best of luck!

Lol they had 9 players show up for the whole tournament!!!!!


I’m sure no one wants to play in ODSL

or for a Greek team at that.

And look at how an Viva team plays at "higher level" league performed at recent tournament. That is a big 0 - 4 record.

VIRGINIAN ELITE SOCCER TOURNAMENT 2019
Saturday, May 25, 2019
VILLARREAL VIRGINIA ACADEMY 2005 YELLOW 1 HERNDON YOUTH SOCCER CICLONES WHITE 3
FC DULLES UNITED ACADEMY GOLD 05 3 VILLARREAL VIRGINIA ACADEMY 2005 YELLOW 1
Sunday, May 26, 2019
VILLARREAL VIRGINIA ACADEMY 2005 YELLOW 0 HIGH PERFORMANCE HPSC BULLDOGS 05 2
OLYMPIACOS DC 05 BOYS 5 VILLARREAL VIRGINIA ACADEMY 2005 YELLOW 1

They had 9 players show up for the whole tournament!!!

Flat out lie.

I mean they were tied to olympiacos with 9 men until the final 10 mins

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you never know, some local kid from Annendale might be better than a kid in Spain who has been fully immersed in soccer every day of his life since he could walk.

100% agree. All Villarreal cf wants to do is buy if they are good enough to play for them and sell to a lower team if they aren’t good enough for them.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are not sign up or switch to viva villareal, you are not getting looked by professional coaches, and you are not going to see villareal fc training ground. -Bo & Carlos

P.S.: I need some funding asap and Bo knows how to sale.

Anybody can see Villareal training ground - just pay money, buy tickets and go. I was on tour of the AC Milan training grounds and saw Barcelona training grounds as well It is all about the money.

Getting to be seen by professional coaches becomes important by 16 -17. Before that the most important thing is player development and being trained by the professional coaches . According to FIFA rules, a US-based player can only go and train in European academy after the age of 18. So prior to that nothing will work no matter what. Any one can send their child to some commercial camp in Spain, Portugal, England etc. for 10 days. It will not make your player better. What makes a player is training 4-5 days a week year around. US system of Fall/Spring seasons does not work.


Let's wish Carlos some funding and have Bo sell you guys something is it about the players or about SALEs and money????

Lol but not anybody can play on the training grounds, as well as have the experience of villarreal cf coaches coaching you.

Really, they do not send good coaches here. The real ones work at their academy. In a year I have seen zero impact from Spanish coaches - the teams are still playing kickball. There are millions of camps that place kids on the training grounds of these clubs. All about money - you pay and go to the commercial camps.

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Anonymous wrote:Watch a VIVA team play all they do is play direct to big, fast forwards. As soon as they start to struggle with the build-up coaches freak out and abandon the game plan. Nothing wrong with that of course, but don’t be s hypocrite.

That is why bo and carlos brought the spanish coaches, to change the style more effectively. The spanish coaches are teaching to the coaches not to do that what every American coach does.

Makes NO sense - if Bo was so great and put so many kids in colleges, why he could not teach the coaches. Spanish coaches had minimal to zero impact over a year. All BS.

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Anonymous wrote:Watch a VIVA team play all they do is play direct to big, fast forwards. As soon as they start to struggle with the build-up coaches freak out and abandon the game plan. Nothing wrong with that of course, but don’t be s hypocrite.

That is why bo and carlos brought the spanish coaches, to change the style more effectively. The spanish coaches are teaching to the coaches not to do that what every American coach does.

Makes NO sense - if Bo was so great and put so many kids in colleges, why he could not teach the coaches. Spanish coaches had minimal to zero impact over a year. All BS.

What's the situation for next year. Are they going to be able to field teams? Saw today that they announced that they are in VPL. Is there no case against them as previously mentioned on these pages?

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Anonymous wrote:what does Villareal even get out of having a little itty bitty program affiliation in northern virginia? Doubt they need it with the millions of dollars they get as a La Liga club

Check out the VILLARREAL CF website for that answer: https://www.villarrealcf.es/academias-internacionales/academias-internacionales

Their mission is positive, invoking holistic growth to the player not just on the field but also off, and their reach is global.

Those clubs not affiliated (Arlington, Alexandria, McLean, Vienna, Chantilly, Braddock Road) have now resorted to their typical annual roasting on this forum in an effort to dismantle what can turn out to be a proper academy which helps foster player/personal growth. Typical capitalistic warfare.

Anonymous wrote:I agree, I used coach in arlington da and they told me to pick the biggest/strongest and fastest players and I will win every game. That is why I left the da program.

Not just the DA in Arlington, all of Arlington teams. This is how it is everywhere in the DMV with the exception of 1 or 2 clubs.

Absolutely agree.

Most coaches resort to playing "kickball" and a form of lacrosse/hockey and having the biggest, strongest and fastest players helps them win possession upfield thereby creating more scoring opportunities. Ultimately, this form of playing soccer is has not and will not help US Soccer challenge for a top spot in the world which should be the goal and objective of all clubs claiming affiliation with US Soccer.

100% agree! same strategy to get immediate results - not long term player development. Viva is no different - Bo loves big fast kids and does not give a shit about kids that are smaller. Have been observing him for over 10 years.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s not why they had a bad season though, that has been the approach for years. As for their actual academy in Spain, that’s great, but who are the coaches who were sent over to VIVA? What are their names, positions, level of involvement?

Young kids who speak a bit of English - that's who they are. Had no impact - watched them for a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who are these freakshow soccer boosters for these two clubs? Why would I ever want my kid to join either team!

NO REASON!!! ALL JOKES - Soccer clowns

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Olympaicos DC Academy based in Falls Church/Annandale still has a couple of spots on 08 and 07 teams.

Here is the academy video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xj1uXHYAUA


https://olympiacosdc.com/

My son plays there for 05s and it is a great year-around program that includes monthly player evaluations, fitness testing and video/classroom sessions. We have been involved in travel soccer in the area for a number of years and never experienced anything like this. Olympiacos DC has only one team per age group and they really focus on player development - not on numbers. Wish all of the soccer parents best of luck!

Lol they had 9 players show up for the whole tournament!!!!!


I’m sure no one wants to play in ODSL

or for a Greek team at that.

And look at how an Viva team plays at "higher level" league performed at recent tournament. That is a big 0 - 4 record.

VIRGINIAN ELITE SOCCER TOURNAMENT 2019
Saturday, May 25, 2019
VILLARREAL VIRGINIA ACADEMY 2005 YELLOW 1 HERNDON YOUTH SOCCER CICLONES WHITE 3
FC DULLES UNITED ACADEMY GOLD 05 3 VILLARREAL VIRGINIA ACADEMY 2005 YELLOW 1
Sunday, May 26, 2019
VILLARREAL VIRGINIA ACADEMY 2005 YELLOW 0 HIGH PERFORMANCE HPSC BULLDOGS 05 2
OLYMPIACOS DC 05 BOYS 5 VILLARREAL VIRGINIA ACADEMY 2005 YELLOW 1

They had 9 players show up for the whole tournament!!!

Let's be clear here - VIVa had 9 players. Other teams were nice enough to take a player off the pitch to accomodate them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That’s not why they had a bad season though, that has been the approach for years. As for their actual academy in Spain, that’s great, but who are the coaches who were sent over to VIVA? What are their names, positions, level of involvement?

Villarreal cf sent one of their directors of methodology(they only have three). The director of methodology is named julio and he picks a guys from spain that he thinks that will suit the players at viva.

So the coaches who train the players and manage the games for VIVA come from the Villarreal academy in Spain?

Yea, the ones that are not needed there

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Anonymous wrote:/\ what a maroon, what an ignoraminus.

Agreed! ...has never watched local DA teams play.

Lol has never watched European soccer in his life.

Sounds like a bitter Central American follower

Sounds like a racist red neck follower

Well, I'm gonna agree with you on that last part about the racism, but ... comparing VIVA to the DA is laughable, and so is the assertion that any team coached by Bo plays anything resembling the football played in La Liga.

That VIVA 05 team is barely better than Bethesda's B team - in other words the team made up of players who weren't good enough to make(or stay on) Bethesda's DA team. And that's not for lack of size or speed. It's because the skill level on that Bethesda 05 DA team is freaking amazing.

What's sort of ironic is that there actually is a Villarreal coach in the DMV right now. Javi Cano was a head coach in their youth academy from 2011-2017. He's now the U15 coach at DCU.

La Liga clubs are not looking for players in clubs like ABGC. They're just looking for marketing partnerships to spread their brand name in a very lucrative market.

Looks like they bet on the wrong horse this time, but they'll survive.

LOOKS like they bet on the dead horse