NM and DMV FC to GFR?

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Anonymous wrote:YNT caliber players hardly need any coaching. You could put them on a clueless parent coached team and they would still win games for the team.

You miss the point. A father who coaches D1 soccer and coached his daughter thru u15, had the opportunity to pick any coach/club in the DMV and picked NM/McLean. Not sure how much of an endorsement you need. Also, I have watched plenty of committed players who developed elsewhere who left elite clubs to join NM/McLean their final year because the environment and training is superior to other places.

From my experience, NM is great at offering opportunities to play at various levels. If your kid is driven and will work on personal development (first touch, striking, etc.) they will have plenty of opportunities to play at a high level.

Unfortunately you need to take private training with NM on the side to get the preferential treatment as discussed above. NOBODY wants to play for NM in the area because this VERY well known. It’s why players left the 09 team. That team has more politics than any in the area, ECNL, GA, or EDP. NM only wants your money, but hey, you at least get something in return…

Comments like this are why you should never trust anything on this site. I was one of the many parents that followed him from MD. Me and other parents have asked to pay for private training with him for the last 10 years and he has refused to ever take a penny.
While that is a huge lie, I doubt anyone really believed it anyway cause they also said nobody wants to play for NM. Now that is just funny.

I heard there is some sort of private training going on but maybe you are right.

Please don’t act like NM is against taking money though. In the next couple of months, GFR parents will open their emails up to see an invitation to TF summer overnight camps. Most of them haven’t seen this before so their excitement will be understandable.

They will be requesting an offensive amount of money for a two day camp.

The overnight practice? This is a joke of a camp, come practice with the same coaches you’ll be working with during the season and pay $700-$800 for the “opportunity” and don’t forget D1 and NWSL players have participated in this camp and is a big reason why they’re where they are.

Or you could pay $400 and go to UVA, UNC, MD, etc.

And if you don’t go to the camp, they have a nice spot down at the end of the bench regardless of skill…

That is not true at all. My daughter played for DMV and Herndon before that, couldn't make the camp and it never changed her playing time. I never felt pressure to do the camp, which is as much a bonding activity/fun event, as it is soccer training. Give it a rest with the NM bashing.

But they promote it as a soccer camp.

Do you think parents are so incompetent that they need NM to choose ‘fun activities’ for their children? Is he now an event planner? My son is getting married….

You lack the perspective because your daughter played for Herndon and DMV. Nothing wrong with playing for those clubs but your furthest away trip was down the street to play the Reston Warriors. Other ECNL families travel to South Carolina to play a single game vs CESA before traveling back home.

After doing that for 8 months who wants to get hit over the head for another thousand bucks?

THIS!!

This is a GFR thread. But it is amazing that you are complaining about paying for a camp but not complaining about traveling to play a single game in South Carolina. 4 or 5 days of touching the ball vs maybe 5 mins in a game. It sounds like ECNL is your problem and not the camp.

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I don't think anyone knows the final verdict here. A lot of reshuffling certainly happening behind the scenes especially McLean, which certainly has more to lose than GFR.

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Does anyone know if Nadir still an ECNL coach at McLean/Union with his new title at GFR? TBD?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if Nadir still an ECNL coach at McLean/Union with his new title at GFR? TBD?

The event planner will continue coaching at Union as well as running things at GFR.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if Nadir still an ECNL coach at McLean/Union with his new title at GFR? TBD?

The event planner will continue coaching at Union as well as running things at GFR.

Good.

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Anonymous wrote:RP and KB will both be exposed soon enough.

What happened?

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Anonymous wrote:RP and KB will both be exposed soon enough.

What happened?

New TD cleaned house. Not sure what will be "exposed"?

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Anonymous wrote:RP and KB will both be exposed soon enough.

What happened?

Update?

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Anonymous wrote:RP and KB will both be exposed soon enough.

What happened?

New TD cleaned house. Not sure what will be "exposed"?

Massive incompetence on the part of whoever decided to fire two accomplished, popular coaches with no explanation to their teams.

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Anonymous wrote:RP and KB will both be exposed soon enough.

What happened?

New TD cleaned house. Not sure what will be "exposed"?

Massive incompetence on the part of whoever decided to fire two accomplished, popular coaches with no explanation to their teams.

This could not be more accurate.

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If the rumored dominoes start falling like has been speculated here - e.g. SYC leaving Union and GFR stepping in to become McLean’s partner for Union - having NM on board certainly helps that process. It might look like incompetence in the short term, and its unfortunate well-liked coaches got bounced, but those are moves GFR probably had to make for the long term good of the club.

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Anonymous wrote:RP and KB will both be exposed soon enough.

What happened?

New TD cleaned house. Not sure what will be "exposed"?

While I second your question about what RP and KB will be "exposed" for, the new TD was not involved in these decisions. That much I know. It was the XD (backed up by the board).

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Anonymous wrote:RP and KB will both be exposed soon enough.

What happened?

New TD cleaned house. Not sure what will be "exposed"?

Massive incompetence on the part of whoever decided to fire two accomplished, popular coaches with no explanation to their teams.

This could not be more accurate.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:RP and KB will both be exposed soon enough.

What happened?

New TD cleaned house. Not sure what will be "exposed"?

While I second your question about what RP and KB will be "exposed" for, the new TD was not involved in these decisions. That much I know. It was the XD (backed up by the board).

RS (+BOD) made these decisions?? Without telling families?!

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Anonymous wrote:RS (+BOD) made these decisions??

Technically, RS made the decisions and the BOD went along with them.

Anonymous wrote:Without telling families?!

Well, if you mean without telling families beforehand, then yes. Obviously e-mails were sent out to the teams that KB and RP coached after the fact but they offered no real explanation for the decisions, of course. Which is not exactly uncommon. Employers rarely disclose details behind the decision to terminate someone from their job and often cite "privacy" as the reason. But not offering up an explanation can also be a...convenience...for an employer who would prefer that people not know all the details because maybe the "optics" wouldn't look so good...