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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are the OP that started this whole thing about the Williamsburg tournament (easily the longest anybody has every talked about this tourney), my guess would be you play for the FPYC team, that lost to Valor in Williamsburg, and then lost badly to the Valor White (third team) this weekend. Makes me wonder if maybe your team is just not very good.

No, my son plays with Chesapeake and we were ridiculed for the 8-0 score. The organizer placed us in the Challenge Blue bracket, which is the lowest level. All we were hoping for was a nice weekend with our families. And no it was not Valor White, it was Valor Black.

I’m the Valor coach who annihilated your son’s team. For the last decade, I’ve been assembling an elite squad of soccer mercenaries whose only mission is to crush childhood dreams. My life’s work is making sure your son can’t even look at a soccer ball without hearing our victory chants echoing in his soul. Messi? Ronaldo? He’ll flinch at the mere mention. The sight of a pair of Mercurials? Instant nausea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are the OP that started this whole thing about the Williamsburg tournament (easily the longest anybody has every talked about this tourney), my guess would be you play for the FPYC team, that lost to Valor in Williamsburg, and then lost badly to the Valor White (third team) this weekend. Makes me wonder if maybe your team is just not very good.

Honey, no team that plays in NCSL division 7 is good. Period. Those are rec level teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are the OP that started this whole thing about the Williamsburg tournament (easily the longest anybody has every talked about this tourney), my guess would be you play for the FPYC team, that lost to Valor in Williamsburg, and then lost badly to the Valor White (third team) this weekend. Makes me wonder if maybe your team is just not very good.

No, my son plays with Chesapeake and we were ridiculed for the 8-0 score. The organizer placed us in the Challenge Blue bracket, which is the lowest level. All we were hoping for was a nice weekend with our families. And no it was not Valor White, it was Valor Black.

I’m the Valor coach who annihilated your son’s team. For the last decade, I’ve been assembling an elite squad of soccer mercenaries whose only mission is to crush childhood dreams. My life’s work is making sure your son can’t even look at a soccer ball without hearing our victory chants echoing in his soul. Messi? Ronaldo? He’ll flinch at the mere mention. The sight of a pair of Mercurials? Instant nausea.

When Valor admin or coaches post in here, its not well-written or grammatically correct. Nice try, though.

[Anonymous]

Really glad we left Valor after hearing more about the things my child's former coach was saying to the team. My child isn't particularly sensitive, so for whatever reason they did not share with us all that was being said when parents were not around. I already wasn't happy with the little bit I did hear, and now I know it was even worse than what I was aware of at the time. I can't believe how many parents stuck around for it. Maybe their kids haven't shared. I feel bad for the kids who think it's a normal way for a coach to conduct themselves around children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really glad we left Valor after hearing more about the things my child's former coach was saying to the team. My child isn't particularly sensitive, so for whatever reason they did not share with us all that was being said when parents were not around. I already wasn't happy with the little bit I did hear, and now I know it was even worse than what I was aware of at the time. I can't believe how many parents stuck around for it. Maybe their kids haven't shared. I feel bad for the kids who think it's a normal way for a coach to conduct themselves around children.

yet no name of coach you provide. Another valor hater

[Anonymous]

I don't check into the valor board to often, but given it is the end of the season I decided to check today and to my surprise there was like a bunch of extra pages since I last checked. I was hoping that there would be actual substance (my bad for thinking that).

From what I gather the past couple pages is just a rec+ family from Chesapeake complaining about playing against another rec+ team in a tournament that was canceled early due to rain. And a bunch of ex valor families giving off crazy ex vibes dog-piling on. Did I miss anything meaningful?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't check into the valor board to often, but given it is the end of the season I decided to check today and to my surprise there was like a bunch of extra pages since I last checked. I was hoping that there would be actual substance (my bad for thinking that).

From what I gather the past couple pages is just a rec+ family from Chesapeake complaining about playing against another rec+ team in a tournament that was canceled early due to rain. And a bunch of ex valor families giving off crazy ex vibes dog-piling on. Did I miss anything meaningful?

Valor coach misspelling checks out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't check into the valor board to often, but given it is the end of the season I decided to check today and to my surprise there was like a bunch of extra pages since I last checked. I was hoping that there would be actual substance (my bad for thinking that).

From what I gather the past couple pages is just a rec+ family from Chesapeake complaining about playing against another rec+ team in a tournament that was canceled early due to rain. And a bunch of ex valor families giving off crazy ex vibes dog-piling on. Did I miss anything meaningful?

Valor coach misspelling checks out

And the fact that they are saying that it is good that the complaining is at a minimum.

[Anonymous]

So the answer is no then, just the same dude shitpostin and replying to himself over and over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the answer is no then, just the same dude shitpostin and replying to himself over and over.

Whatever makes you feel better about working for Valor and/or wasting your money there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really glad we left Valor after hearing more about the things my child's former coach was saying to the team. My child isn't particularly sensitive, so for whatever reason they did not share with us all that was being said when parents were not around. I already wasn't happy with the little bit I did hear, and now I know it was even worse than what I was aware of at the time. I can't believe how many parents stuck around for it. Maybe their kids haven't shared. I feel bad for the kids who think it's a normal way for a coach to conduct themselves around children.

yet no name of coach you provide. Another valor hater

Not op but just a parent who had a kid on a valor team and I will happily provide you a name of a coach who verbally destroyed a bunch of girls on my kids team. CS. Not sure if he still works there but we left after one season with him. Since then I have learned that MANY of the kids on that team have left after us.

[Anonymous]

CS is awful and should never have been allowed to coach little girls.

There was a coach last year, who left, who destroyed teams for two different age groups on the boys side because he was so toxic to the players. Valor has no standards and will hire any warm body to coach.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Read the tournament rules. Most tournaments only allow up to 5 guest players on 11 v 11. So guest players are not the “many” you claim. Valor plays within the rules. Also, Valor teams do mainly use guest players to help field a short-handed team so that they have enough subs for rest and injuries. These guest players and their parents VOLUNTEER their time to help lower level teams. Getting minutes is an incentive and normal for VOLUNTEERS. Why would a guest player and their parents travel 1–2 hours to sit on the bench for a tournament?

Again if you have a problem with your opponent’s roster, your team can challenge it with the referee before the game.

Valor had 8-9 ECNL RL players in their Black division 7 team at the Williamsburg Columbus Day Invitational tournament and they played in the lowest bracket. The ref and the tournament organizer didn't care.

NCSL allows 5 guest players as long as they're not from a higher division, read the rules.

What age group is this? Boys/girls? Lots to unpack here? Why so many?

[Anonymous]

Ncsl rules are irrelevant to a tournament. Each tournament sets its own guest player rules.

[Anonymous]

My experience, as a non-Valor parent whose DD played valor every year, is that the parents were repeatedly trying to start fights with parents of the other team, were being ejected from games, etc.. you might want to consider that the parents have more influence on culture than the coach, and you might want to do better….