Vienna is worse |
Where's the gigantic multi year thread of parents complaining about Vienna? |
And Great Falls and Bethesda. |
I would talk to the Technical Director and have your kid ID at the TSJ or any other club (attend a practice session). If we stayed with Valor, my kid would have been sitting around 5 divisions lower in the league. If you unhappy, start shopping around for a new car. Nothing wrong with that at all. Sitting around a club to wait to things to happen is not a good strategy. A good coach vs a bad coach will become noticeably very transparent within that first engagement. It was for me. Valor will take anyone that has a heartbeat for their lower-level teams. I would advise you to think about staying unless your pre-academy or number 2 team. |
Thats complete BS. We left, now we are on pre-academy...and yes, much higher in the division than the last team than what they offered. |
No way. There aren't hundreds of parents complaining (just on this one obscure corner of the internet) about any other club besides Valor. Valor is clearly the dumpster fire of DMV pay to play soccer. |
Finally, an honest and valuable comment from a parent. Agree. Don't wait for the club to come through. We sought out and looked for a good coach, not the club. My kids practiced with several other clubs before we down selected. Keep your options open. Lots of your resources go into these activities and you should get the best value (coach) out of it as much as possible. To be fair, I will say there is a limit to what significant improvement you will see with any coach. Unless you're willing to lower your expectations, its time and more time on the ball that will improve your kid's performance. Your kid should be touching the ball for at least 20 minutes a day in some fashion. If not, you're not going to see much of an improvement. |
For season games and tournaments, there's no specific threshold for me, but for weekly club practices, that's the threshold. You might have missed the language, but the original poster mentioned "Where in the local Area", assuming you are affected by some sort of learning or reading disorder since you missed that specific detail. |
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/45/1201742.page#27417707 |
That thread is only SIX pages. This one is 140! |
That's about right for the size of both clubs. |
Not even close to even, vienna has had travel teams for decades while valor has only been around for 3? years. There should mathematically be many more complaints against Vienna. |
Don't worry there are plenty of complaints. Valor may only be 3 years old, but it is a combination of 2 full sized former clubs merging. |
Valor admin just naming clubs at random trying to change the topic. We are discussing how Valor sucks, stay focused people. |
Yep, its so obviously transparent. Valor Guy, everyone thinks your program sucks. |