What is VSA Travel Like?

[Anonymous]

Aren't they sponsored by a plumbing company? That alone would turn me off to a club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren't they sponsored by a plumbing company? That alone would turn me off to a club.

That would be such a lame reason to not like a club. They have many sponsors, FYI. Greenlight and soccer.com being others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Style of play? Kickball. Direct as possible. Back line and midfield? Clear it forward as fast as possible.

Methodology? Find big, fast players that can kick it far.

Go watch a high school game with the local players - Gainesville, Battlefield, etc - it's total kickball from the defense and slow passing or flat passes from attacking positions.

Battlefield has some excellent attacking players, but their coaches love the kickball. Long balls, corners, super long throw-ins. Eventually that falls apart and the goals don’t materialize, which is why Colgan sent them packing last night. Go Sharks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Style of play? Kickball. Direct as possible. Back line and midfield? Clear it forward as fast as possible.

Methodology? Find big, fast players that can kick it far.

Go watch a high school game with the local players - Gainesville, Battlefield, etc - it's total kickball from the defense and slow passing or flat passes from attacking positions.

Battlefield has some excellent attacking players, but their coaches love the kickball. Long balls, corners, super long throw-ins. Eventually that falls apart and the goals don’t materialize, which is why Colgan sent them packing last night. Go Sharks!

Boys or girls?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Style of play? Kickball. Direct as possible. Back line and midfield? Clear it forward as fast as possible.

Methodology? Find big, fast players that can kick it far.

Go watch a high school game with the local players - Gainesville, Battlefield, etc - it's total kickball from the defense and slow passing or flat passes from attacking positions.

Battlefield has some excellent attacking players, but their coaches love the kickball. Long balls, corners, super long throw-ins. Eventually that falls apart and the goals don’t materialize, which is why Colgan sent them packing last night. Go Sharks!

Boys or girls?

Boys

[Anonymous]

VSA is proud to have players come up through their development going to ECNL-RL and into VDA. Not everyone does obviously, but every kid starts somewhere and then it depends on what that kid wants. Personally I think the parents ruin this place. I think they are too hard on the kids and their development. They also drive me crazy when they cheer on kids who do long passes into space repeatedly and players running onto it. As someone mentioned earlier, the parents are honkies who are basketball, football, hockey, and baseball fans. It wasn’t the right place for my kid and I. That’s why we left VSA for Barca Academy (when that academy was still around). Now we are elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VSA is proud to have players come up through their development going to ECNL-RL and into VDA. Not everyone does obviously, but every kid starts somewhere and then it depends on what that kid wants. Personally I think the parents ruin this place. I think they are too hard on the kids and their development. They also drive me crazy when they cheer on kids who do long passes into space repeatedly and players running onto it. As someone mentioned earlier, the parents are honkies who are basketball, football, hockey, and baseball fans. It wasn’t the right place for my kid and I. That’s why we left VSA for Barca Academy (when that academy was still around). Now we are elsewhere.

Same.

[Anonymous]

parents are definitely country bumpkins

[Anonymous]

No age groups coordinators. Decent TD and administration. I don’t like their lines of communication. I’d rather go to the director first than the head coach first. Decent player pool. Coaches try to teach the players criteria given to them from us soccer coaches education courses. Methodology of getting the ball forward as fast as you can and dominate 1v1s. Every team in the age group has a different session happening. I don’t like majority of the parents here, worst than Loudoun and FCV parents, but nicer than PWSI parents. Compared closely to VDA parents.

[Anonymous]

Not a lot going on for this club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a lot going on for this club.

Without any information or context, this is such unhelpful feedback. Can you please explain why you think VSA has not a lot going on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a lot going on for this club.

Without any information or context, this is such unhelpful feedback. Can you please explain why you think VSA has not a lot going on?

All the information and context were provided in the previous posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No age groups coordinators. Decent TD and administration. I don’t like their lines of communication. I’d rather go to the director first than the head coach first. Decent player pool. Coaches try to teach the players criteria given to them from us soccer coaches education courses. Methodology of getting the ball forward as fast as you can and dominate 1v1s. Every team in the age group has a different session happening. I don’t like majority of the parents here, worst than Loudoun and FCV parents, but nicer than PWSI parents. Compared closely to VDA parents.

Imagine if every single parent wanted to bypass the Head Coach and go directly to the TD. The TD would never get any work done. Maybe your question/concern can be handled by the HC. If it's a complaint about the HC or the coach has done something wrong, then it makes sense but you should not bypass the HC. Do they have DOCs? You could speak to them prior to TD.

[Anonymous]

How’s VSA doing? Are they a mess? All good? Same old same like everywhere else? What’s new here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How’s VSA doing? Are they a mess? All good? Same old same like everywhere else? What’s new here?

Same old same old. Nothing new to report apart from turf fields being closed still.