Do parents pay coaches…

[Anonymous]

Cash, Venmo, Gift Cards & I know one parent who delivered a association with a European team. I've seen alot of crap. One guy at my local ECNL club only takes cash ( 400 month for bench player) & when a parent lost her job and quit paying he benched the kid for four months untill the end of the season.

I know another kid dropped from an A team to a D team for refusing to pay.

American soccer is broken....

[Anonymous]

Whats being talked about here is the other Half of the varsity blue scandal. Parents are paying off coaches to push players to college coaches and then paying the coaches to take the kids.

It all needs the FBI yesterday.

[Anonymous]

AND yes its illegal, sports fixing, bribery, fraud, and tax evasion are all well known federal crimes.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately my kid got screwed by the under the table cash.

U12-U13 is a critical year for players. This is when coaches recommend players to US Soccer recruiters for National ID Camps

Unfortunately our club hired a new DOC at that exact age for my kid. He looked at the current players and had his hand out for $$$. I refused to pay + because of this my kid never got an invite. What's even more annoying is the DOC tries his best to prop of the players that he chose for ID Camps. They aren't delivering so he has to bring up the bench to win games. It's disgusting to watch but at this point it doesn't matter. My kid just tries harder and harder + makes him look bad because if he wants to win he has to play her.

We could have gone to a different club but I didn't feel like driving an hour to and from practices. I could have paid the $$$ but I chose not to and am done with it. I wonder how many of the parents that did pay are still handing over $$$ for minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whats being talked about here is the other Half of the varsity blue scandal. Parents are paying off coaches to push players to college coaches and then paying the coaches to take the kids.

It all needs the FBI yesterday.

This will keep going as long as nobody is investigating seriously. DMV area teams get trashed when they play other parts of the country ( mid west, west coast, Jersey). A big part of it is these so called coaches who are just there to play sub par kids for one reason or the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately my kid got screwed by the under the table cash.

U12-U13 is a critical year for players. This is when coaches recommend players to US Soccer recruiters for National ID Camps

Unfortunately our club hired a new DOC at that exact age for my kid. He looked at the current players and had his hand out for $$$. I refused to pay + because of this my kid never got an invite. What's even more annoying is the DOC tries his best to prop of the players that he chose for ID Camps. They aren't delivering so he has to bring up the bench to win games. It's disgusting to watch but at this point it doesn't matter. My kid just tries harder and harder + makes him look bad because if he wants to win he has to play her.

We could have gone to a different club but I didn't feel like driving an hour to and from practices. I could have paid the $$$ but I chose not to and am done with it. I wonder how many of the parents that did pay are still handing over $$$ for minutes.

Did the same thing. Kid got screwed all season because I didn't pay the coach for privates, even though my kid is a solid mid to top of pack player.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whats being talked about here is the other Half of the varsity blue scandal. Parents are paying off coaches to push players to college coaches and then paying the coaches to take the kids.

It all needs the FBI yesterday.

This will keep going as long as nobody is investigating seriously. DMV area teams get trashed when they play other parts of the country ( mid west, west coast, Jersey). A big part of it is these so called coaches who are just there to play sub par kids for one reason or the other.

DMV teams get trashed when they play teams from other parts of the country? That’s a pretty ridiculous and inaccurate statement. I’m sure some teams lose, and some teams win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whats being talked about here is the other Half of the varsity blue scandal. Parents are paying off coaches to push players to college coaches and then paying the coaches to take the kids.

It all needs the FBI yesterday.

This will keep going as long as nobody is investigating seriously. DMV area teams get trashed when they play other parts of the country ( mid west, west coast, Jersey). A big part of it is these so called coaches who are just there to play sub par kids for one reason or the other.

DMV teams get trashed when they play teams from other parts of the country? That’s a pretty ridiculous and inaccurate statement. I’m sure some teams lose, and some teams win.

Do you see the scores from games of teams who play the California or Texas teams?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My husband has always been convinced this is the case. lol

We never paid them. I think sometimes it’s donations to the club too.

what gave that away? The named/reserved parking spots?

😂 Dp. But I’m so out of the loop of the ‘fundraising for “scholarships”’ that I have no idea when our parking spot is even auctioned.

We had one mom on one of our ECNL team give private weekly yoga sessions to her daughters team.

For girls, Yoga = ACL tears. Look it up.

Running to Google

Dying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whats being talked about here is the other Half of the varsity blue scandal. Parents are paying off coaches to push players to college coaches and then paying the coaches to take the kids.

It all needs the FBI yesterday.

This will keep going as long as nobody is investigating seriously. DMV area teams get trashed when they play other parts of the country ( mid west, west coast, Jersey). A big part of it is these so called coaches who are just there to play sub par kids for one reason or the other.

DMV teams get trashed when they play teams from other parts of the country? That’s a pretty ridiculous and inaccurate statement. I’m sure some teams lose, and some teams win.

Do you see the scores from games of teams who play the California or Texas teams?

No, it’s pretty much the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately my kid got screwed by the under the table cash.

U12-U13 is a critical year for players. This is when coaches recommend players to US Soccer recruiters for National ID Camps

Unfortunately our club hired a new DOC at that exact age for my kid. He looked at the current players and had his hand out for $$$. I refused to pay + because of this my kid never got an invite. What's even more annoying is the DOC tries his best to prop of the players that he chose for ID Camps. They aren't delivering so he has to bring up the bench to win games. It's disgusting to watch but at this point it doesn't matter. My kid just tries harder and harder + makes him look bad because if he wants to win he has to play her.

We could have gone to a different club but I didn't feel like driving an hour to and from practices. I could have paid the $$$ but I chose not to and am done with it. I wonder how many of the parents that did pay are still handing over $$$ for minutes.

Did the same thing. Kid got screwed all season because I didn't pay the coach for privates, even though my kid is a solid mid to top of pack player.

What's frustrating is the DOC has been doing this for a while + knows how to cover his tracks. If he didn't put his favorites in most of the game when it doesnt matter and entirely different players when it does I might have believed the perception he was trying to convey.

It's just sad and pathetic when you see things like this going on right in front of your eyes.

In the end I know it's making my kid work 2x as hard which will translate into playing in college. Of which super DOC will try to take ownership of saying that he developed her when in reality all he did was throw up roadblocks the entire time.

It would have been 10x easier to just pay him off but I stood on principles and it screwed my kids chance at a national team invite. Sigh..

[Anonymous]

I say it's BS. Never seen anyone pay coaches separately for extras (excluding 1 on 1 training). Name the local club or not true.

[Anonymous]

Offers rolling in and this seems to be a reasonable explanation for some?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say it's BS. Never seen anyone pay coaches separately for extras (excluding 1 on 1 training). Name the local club or not true.

You aren't supposed to see it. Duh. I've never seen anyone rob a bank. It doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:100% true. Former ECNL coach, top 10 club.

I easily pulled in an extra $50k per season from parent gratuities.

One season we went deep in nationals, a player I took a gamble on and rostered for the tourney had a dad that owns the a Land Rover dealership. I’ve been a customer for life ever since.

Yep. That how it works. But this will only take the kid so far. Once you hand the bad rostered kid to the college coach, they are on their own and the reality hits. Unless the college itself gets donations too lol

Affluent DMV parent plan...once daughter/s is/are fading athletically and not getting what the good players get...find way on the board at club, build relationships with coaches/parents advertising wealth, travel with team and be very involved in planning and activities so everyone thinks your are helpful and wonderful. Then, if daughter continues to fade, start the college recruiting push to schools that daughter/s have zero business playing (if this is not working, switch clubs and try again). This is much easier to pull off if you own a professional soccer team or car dealership for obvious reasons.

This isn't specific to the girls side, but otherwise spot on.