FC Virginia

[Anonymous]

I know it's not nice but I am impressed by how VRSC took out Barca and FCV by going after their fields.
I suspect it is the constant FCV boosting in this forum and elsewhere that caused it. Anger is a great motivator. I saw it when a certain person was removed by an organization and they stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result. They proceeded to form a new organization, leading to lawsuits, and then spent a lot of money to keep messing with the first group, going on decades now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it's not nice but I am impressed by how VRSC took out Barca and FCV by going after their fields.
I suspect it is the constant FCV boosting in this forum and elsewhere that caused it. Anger is a great motivator. I saw it when a certain person was removed by an organization and they stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result. They proceeded to form a new organization, leading to lawsuits, and then spent a lot of money to keep messing with the first group, going on decades now.

Too new....can you give more context?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it's not nice but I am impressed by how VRSC took out Barca and FCV by going after their fields.
I suspect it is the constant FCV boosting in this forum and elsewhere that caused it. Anger is a great motivator. I saw it when a certain person was removed by an organization and they stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result. They proceeded to form a new organization, leading to lawsuits, and then spent a lot of money to keep messing with the first group, going on decades now.

Too new....can you give more context?

For the bolded part - It used to be called Evergreen Sportsplex and they rented the fields to Barca Academy Northern Virginia and FCV. Barca Academy was a franchise owned by Sporting Global that formed in 2018, they had office space w/in Evergreen and ran the club out of Evergreen Sportsplex i think it was also known as the CroppMetcaffe something. I'm not sure when they folded, it had to been in the last year or two. Sporting Global partnered with FCV on the boys side because FCV has predominately been a girls club. FCV also used Evergreen as their base/home fields for FCV Girls Academy. VRSC was formed, purchased Evergreen Sportsplex, renamed it Raventek (corporate sponsor) Park. Now that VRSC owns their own fields, they are in Girls Academy and they did not renew the lease for next season with FCV and now also Sporting Global.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know it's not nice but I am impressed by how VRSC took out Barca and FCV by going after their fields.
I suspect it is the constant FCV boosting in this forum and elsewhere that caused it. Anger is a great motivator. I saw it when a certain person was removed by an organization and they stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result. They proceeded to form a new organization, leading to lawsuits, and then spent a lot of money to keep messing with the first group, going on decades now.

Too new....can you give more context?

For the bolded part - It used to be called Evergreen Sportsplex and they rented the fields to Barca Academy Northern Virginia and FCV. Barca Academy was a franchise owned by Sporting Global that formed in 2018, they had office space w/in Evergreen and ran the club out of Evergreen Sportsplex i think it was also known as the CroppMetcaffe something. I'm not sure when they folded, it had to been in the last year or two. Sporting Global partnered with FCV on the boys side because FCV has predominately been a girls club. FCV also used Evergreen as their base/home fields for FCV Girls Academy. VRSC was formed, purchased Evergreen Sportsplex, renamed it Raventek (corporate sponsor) Park. Now that VRSC owns their own fields, they are in Girls Academy and they did not renew the lease for next season with FCV and now also Sporting Global.

Thank you. So, in theory, FCV should have made a play for the facility years ago. If they had, they would not be in this position. I just Googled it....they acquired the fields in 2021! That is a lot of time to not have seen the writing on the wall. Loudoun parks and rec has a ton of fields...but Loudoun soccer has a monopoly on the parks and rec fields.

Oh holy sh*t. I just found a DCUM thread from 2021 that specifically calls out how FCV and Barca would be out of practice space.

I realize I am late to the party...but wow did they poop the bed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it's not nice but I am impressed by how VRSC took out Barca and FCV by going after their fields.
I suspect it is the constant FCV boosting in this forum and elsewhere that caused it. Anger is a great motivator. I saw it when a certain person was removed by an organization and they stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result. They proceeded to form a new organization, leading to lawsuits, and then spent a lot of money to keep messing with the first group, going on decades now.

Too new....can you give more context?

For the bolded part - It used to be called Evergreen Sportsplex and they rented the fields to Barca Academy Northern Virginia and FCV. Barca Academy was a franchise owned by Sporting Global that formed in 2018, they had office space w/in Evergreen and ran the club out of Evergreen Sportsplex i think it was also known as the CroppMetcaffe something. I'm not sure when they folded, it had to been in the last year or two. Sporting Global partnered with FCV on the boys side because FCV has predominately been a girls club. FCV also used Evergreen as their base/home fields for FCV Girls Academy. VRSC was formed, purchased Evergreen Sportsplex, renamed it Raventek (corporate sponsor) Park. Now that VRSC owns their own fields, they are in Girls Academy and they did not renew the lease for next season with FCV and now also Sporting Global.

Thank you. So, in theory, FCV should have made a play for the facility years ago. If they had, they would not be in this position. I just Googled it....they acquired the fields in 2021! That is a lot of time to not have seen the writing on the wall. Loudoun parks and rec has a ton of fields...but Loudoun soccer has a monopoly on the parks and rec fields.

Oh holy sh*t. I just found a DCUM thread from 2021 that specifically calls out how FCV and Barca would be out of practice space.

I realize I am late to the party...but wow did they poop the bed.

StJ doesn't want to invest that kind of money in fcv is the problem. With how they've treated the program since purchasing it I don't know why they bought it to start with.

[Anonymous]

Especially because the St. James is a nice facility. Parking is stupid but the inside is pretty nice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know it's not nice but I am impressed by how VRSC took out Barca and FCV by going after their fields.
I suspect it is the constant FCV boosting in this forum and elsewhere that caused it. Anger is a great motivator. I saw it when a certain person was removed by an organization and they stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result. They proceeded to form a new organization, leading to lawsuits, and then spent a lot of money to keep messing with the first group, going on decades now.

Too new....can you give more context?

For the bolded part - It used to be called Evergreen Sportsplex and they rented the fields to Barca Academy Northern Virginia and FCV. Barca Academy was a franchise owned by Sporting Global that formed in 2018, they had office space w/in Evergreen and ran the club out of Evergreen Sportsplex i think it was also known as the CroppMetcaffe something. I'm not sure when they folded, it had to been in the last year or two. Sporting Global partnered with FCV on the boys side because FCV has predominately been a girls club. FCV also used Evergreen as their base/home fields for FCV Girls Academy. VRSC was formed, purchased Evergreen Sportsplex, renamed it Raventek (corporate sponsor) Park. Now that VRSC owns their own fields, they are in Girls Academy and they did not renew the lease for next season with FCV and now also Sporting Global.

Thank you. So, in theory, FCV should have made a play for the facility years ago. If they had, they would not be in this position. I just Googled it....they acquired the fields in 2021! That is a lot of time to not have seen the writing on the wall. Loudoun parks and rec has a ton of fields...but Loudoun soccer has a monopoly on the parks and rec fields.

Oh holy sh*t. I just found a DCUM thread from 2021 that specifically calls out how FCV and Barca would be out of practice space.

I realize I am late to the party...but wow did they poop the bed.

There’s a reason CC was willing to sell FCV…and Foley before him. Evergreen changed hands a couple of times, and supposedly was not profitable for the entities that owned it prior to Revolution. Prior FCV owners didn’t have the capital to buy a place like that (not many do) and the County stacks the deck against them - and other small clubs - both in terms of allocating public field space and by blocking private projects that could have given them another avenue. FCV had a hell of a run for a club that didn’t have much in terms of resources. Whether VRSC wanted to take out other clubs or not, they probably plunked down too much money not to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it's not nice but I am impressed by how VRSC took out Barca and FCV by going after their fields.
I suspect it is the constant FCV boosting in this forum and elsewhere that caused it. Anger is a great motivator. I saw it when a certain person was removed by an organization and they stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result. They proceeded to form a new organization, leading to lawsuits, and then spent a lot of money to keep messing with the first group, going on decades now.

Too new....can you give more context?

For the bolded part - It used to be called Evergreen Sportsplex and they rented the fields to Barca Academy Northern Virginia and FCV. Barca Academy was a franchise owned by Sporting Global that formed in 2018, they had office space w/in Evergreen and ran the club out of Evergreen Sportsplex i think it was also known as the CroppMetcaffe something. I'm not sure when they folded, it had to been in the last year or two. Sporting Global partnered with FCV on the boys side because FCV has predominately been a girls club. FCV also used Evergreen as their base/home fields for FCV Girls Academy. VRSC was formed, purchased Evergreen Sportsplex, renamed it Raventek (corporate sponsor) Park. Now that VRSC owns their own fields, they are in Girls Academy and they did not renew the lease for next season with FCV and now also Sporting Global.

Thank you. So, in theory, FCV should have made a play for the facility years ago. If they had, they would not be in this position. I just Googled it....they acquired the fields in 2021! That is a lot of time to not have seen the writing on the wall. Loudoun parks and rec has a ton of fields...but Loudoun soccer has a monopoly on the parks and rec fields.

Oh holy sh*t. I just found a DCUM thread from 2021 that specifically calls out how FCV and Barca would be out of practice space.

I realize I am late to the party...but wow did they poop the bed.

There’s a reason CC was willing to sell FCV…and Foley before him. Evergreen changed hands a couple of times, and supposedly was not profitable for the entities that owned it prior to Revolution. Prior FCV owners didn’t have the capital to buy a place like that (not many do) and the County stacks the deck against them - and other small clubs - both in terms of allocating public field space and by blocking private projects that could have given them another avenue. FCV had a hell of a run for a club that didn’t have much in terms of resources. Whether VRSC wanted to take out other clubs or not, they probably plunked down too much money not to.

Any idea if the Western Loudoun Recreation complex will help? Or do you think LS will just gobble those fields too? Might help but that is still a couple years away and the description doesn't mention turf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it's not nice but I am impressed by how VRSC took out Barca and FCV by going after their fields.
I suspect it is the constant FCV boosting in this forum and elsewhere that caused it. Anger is a great motivator. I saw it when a certain person was removed by an organization and they stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result. They proceeded to form a new organization, leading to lawsuits, and then spent a lot of money to keep messing with the first group, going on decades now.

Too new....can you give more context?

For the bolded part - It used to be called Evergreen Sportsplex and they rented the fields to Barca Academy Northern Virginia and FCV. Barca Academy was a franchise owned by Sporting Global that formed in 2018, they had office space w/in Evergreen and ran the club out of Evergreen Sportsplex i think it was also known as the CroppMetcaffe something. I'm not sure when they folded, it had to been in the last year or two. Sporting Global partnered with FCV on the boys side because FCV has predominately been a girls club. FCV also used Evergreen as their base/home fields for FCV Girls Academy. VRSC was formed, purchased Evergreen Sportsplex, renamed it Raventek (corporate sponsor) Park. Now that VRSC owns their own fields, they are in Girls Academy and they did not renew the lease for next season with FCV and now also Sporting Global.

Thank you. So, in theory, FCV should have made a play for the facility years ago. If they had, they would not be in this position. I just Googled it....they acquired the fields in 2021! That is a lot of time to not have seen the writing on the wall. Loudoun parks and rec has a ton of fields...but Loudoun soccer has a monopoly on the parks and rec fields.

Oh holy sh*t. I just found a DCUM thread from 2021 that specifically calls out how FCV and Barca would be out of practice space.

I realize I am late to the party...but wow did they poop the bed.

There’s a reason CC was willing to sell FCV…and Foley before him. Evergreen changed hands a couple of times, and supposedly was not profitable for the entities that owned it prior to Revolution. Prior FCV owners didn’t have the capital to buy a place like that (not many do) and the County stacks the deck against them - and other small clubs - both in terms of allocating public field space and by blocking private projects that could have given them another avenue. FCV had a hell of a run for a club that didn’t have much in terms of resources. Whether VRSC wanted to take out other clubs or not, they probably plunked down too much money not to.

I guess we'll see if VRSC can actually make a profit there where no one else could.

[Anonymous]

Over 100 new girls filling GA and GA2 rosters at $3500 a kid, they are doing ok.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are new to the club. We tried out for the youth boys' teams. So far, we are happy with the coach: great communication, already starting some early practices and engagement. Also, has been very quick with responding on most of our inquiries. On the field issues, nothing too concerning for us. We are more focused on the coach: level of experience and professionalism over the field locations and/or conditions. Sorry for everyone who had a bad experience. Hopefully with the new staff they will continue with this new level of performance and keep pace with that level of expectation.

How will you feel if your kid's practice field location changes to a location that is super inconvenient for you if your kid gets moved to a different level team? Or when games have to be rescheduled because ST James/FCV doesn't have fields that are "theirs"?

I don't have a kid who plays there, but we are avoiding it because both of these scenarios have happened to people we know.

Maybe my expectations are different, but my kid has played soccer for many years and I can’t think of a season where we had a single field location for practice or games. It was usually a set of fields that would be loaded into the team app and occasionally due to some unknown reason they would change field locations from the original field. None of these fields are so far from each other that the difference between playing on one or the other makes a huge difference. In the end I expect a similar circumstance at our new club. There seems to be a lot of entitlement on this thread around fields. Pele played with mangos after all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are new to the club. We tried out for the youth boys' teams. So far, we are happy with the coach: great communication, already starting some early practices and engagement. Also, has been very quick with responding on most of our inquiries. On the field issues, nothing too concerning for us. We are more focused on the coach: level of experience and professionalism over the field locations and/or conditions. Sorry for everyone who had a bad experience. Hopefully with the new staff they will continue with this new level of performance and keep pace with that level of expectation.

Good for you and I wish more people cared about this. Club matters less than the person coaching. Looking into the coach and then the players on the team should be the deciding factor not the club logo on their jersey.

Fields matter.

There are fields. We wouldn’t have signed on if there weren’t. When everyone is playing on them next season, I wonder what you’ll talk about next?

It is true that we won’t have your compound with food and gym but we opted to focus on coaching for our kid rather than beer and treadmills for us.

While the beer and treadmills sound good I couldn’t agree more with this post.

In regard to all the FCV critics, there is something wrong about posts that try to tell others how to feel about a particular situation as if the poster has any clue about the situation that hasn’t happened yet. More so these posters can’t really care because they clearly aren’t going to be involved with the club or the future circumstance. The only reason to post all the criticisms is to grind an axe or feel like you’re getting better by making everybody else feel or look worse. I can understand somebody posting about how they feel about their own choices and circumstances, but trying to tell others how they should feel is a bit too much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are new to the club. We tried out for the youth boys' teams. So far, we are happy with the coach: great communication, already starting some early practices and engagement. Also, has been very quick with responding on most of our inquiries. On the field issues, nothing too concerning for us. We are more focused on the coach: level of experience and professionalism over the field locations and/or conditions. Sorry for everyone who had a bad experience. Hopefully with the new staff they will continue with this new level of performance and keep pace with that level of expectation.

Good for you and I wish more people cared about this. Club matters less than the person coaching. Looking into the coach and then the players on the team should be the deciding factor not the club logo on their jersey.

Fields matter.

There are fields. We wouldn’t have signed on if there weren’t. When everyone is playing on them next season, I wonder what you’ll talk about next?

It is true that we won’t have your compound with food and gym but we opted to focus on coaching for our kid rather than beer and treadmills for us.

THEY DON'T HAVE FIELDS. Of course they'll tell you they do.

This. This is a huge reason (besides toxic TD and staff leaving) many left. There have been promises for years about fields and facilities from StJ. They do not care about fcv at all and there are no true home fields or facilities for next year and I doubt the year after that.

You come off as entitled in your post. What really constitutes a “true home field”? Sounds like a rich parent who wants their kid playing on a privately owned field. We are still talking about travel youth soccer here no?

[Anonymous]

I don’t think the issue is so much (at least to me and I would think most) the physical location of the fields, it’s the lack of transparency and honesty. From what I hear, this extends, at least for some, to the team placement for their players.

AB & Co. should realize they are operating from a place of weakness. The normal snowballing and stringing people along that is the youth soccer business should go out the window when it is widely known that your club has been filleted by VRSC and the surrounding ECNL clubs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hanson 1 I have seen used by Loudoun travel teams this season.

And this matters why? I’ve seen that field used for the state cup. Lots of teams have been on that field.