What is VSA Travel Like?
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Anonymous
| After reading through the other threads, it seems VSA is better than FCV and Valor |
Anonymous
My cousin's backyard club that just formed is better than valor and FCV. |
Anonymous
| VSA is also known for taking ECNL players to lower teams for games and beating up on them 9-0 |
Anonymous
| Left VSA last year for- gasp- Valor. We are much happier. Our son has developed and we love the coach. Would never go back to VSA, but there are people who like it (and people who like Valor!). It is really about the coach, not the club. The only thing the club controls is length and location of practices and of course the cost. What the kids learn and how they develop is all about the coach. |
Anonymous
All ECNL-RL clubs that feed into NL do this. The players coming down to play are usually bench players that get little time on the NL team. Gives them minutes, gives the RL club a boost, but takes away from girls actually on the team, but the clubs don't care. |
Anonymous
| So VSA is just kind of there and sometimes feeds kids into ECNL-RL and VDA. The rest of the teams are just there. That’s the sort of intel I’m collecting. Their website shows they have a methodology, but does this club and their coaches implement it? As an example, Barca academy used to be all the coaches doing the same session of the topic of that day and every thing was adapted to the level of their kids, VSA is or isn’t like that? |
Anonymous
| VSA just kinda gets the physical leftover honkies who’s parents are big basketball, hockey, and American football fans. |
Anonymous
| At least James Long Park turf fields are beautiful. Their methodology, system, style of play, is all over the place. It’s weird because a lot of their coaches are USSF license C, B, and A. |
Anonymous
The fields are nice. The fact that they make parents/families stand around the perimeter fence is ridiculous. (Same with Ali Krieger)
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Anonymous
Families and parents should not be on the field. They absolutely should be outside the fence at the least. If not, leave and come back. Let the coaches coach. |
Anonymous
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Let’s be real. The ONLY reason VSA does it is to protect their prized fields (which are very nice). It has nothing to do with the role parents or fans are actually playing on the sideline.
Not sure how sitting on a sideline to watch your 8-11 year old kid play on a small sided field is at all related to letting coaches coach. Most coaches I know and work with want the parents there to support their kids at that age and will address those who may be “overly involved” in their own way. There is a reason 95% of local clubs allow “fans” on the opposite sideline to support their kids. So thank you for your opinion but I’ll stand by mine my that VSA and PW not allowing families on the sideline for small fielded games is in fact ridiculous.
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Anonymous
You just being a distraction, which is why coaches HATE people like you. Truly, they do. They talk about you behind your back to other coaches and your kid can be kept back from making teams because many coaches do not want to deal with helicopter parents. I know more than one coach who will openly state this to parents before tryouts in the younger age groups and they will 100% refuse to take on a player because of their parent's behavior no matter how good the kid is. |
Anonymous
| Any feedback on Boys 2011 teams for VSA? |
Anonymous
what specifically are you asking about? all teams at that age group? specific coaches? training? w-l-d record? |
Anonymous
| Difference between teams for age group and coaching styles. |