Loudoun Soccer Just Robbed Parents

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10/09/2020 21:03

Subject: Loudoun Soccer Just Robbed Parents

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Anonymous wrote:These posts are ridiculous. Someone has a major inferiority complex with Loudoun soccer.

Truth hurts.

Whats the truth?

As a former Loudoun parent, I haven’t seen any untruths out of the basic complaints:

1. Loudoun took the money (there’s no credible argument otherwise)
2. Loudoun nepotism in their coaching staff
3. Loudoun prioritizes, promotes and elevates the players of well connected and family parents (I saw this up close)
4. The TD covers for it all with gaslighting

Those who have been there and witnessed it know. Those who benefit are here to cover. Loudoun is a club in the truest sense of the word. There are families who are members of the club, then there are others who pay to support the club and in return get a lower level environment for their kid to play in as a bone. That’s just the way it is there, so for those who want their kid to play at a higher level there, make sure you build or have an in there first.

As a parent who spent 6+ years with two kids playing travel soccer at LS, I have to say that I agree with almost all of what this person wrote. I can't speak for #4 above because I never dealt with the TD but everything else is spot on.

Yes, most people don’t deal directly with him, but he has a very big impact on the makeup of the travel teams from the very earliest ages. There are coaches at Loudoun who have family children playing on preferred teams. Friends of the staff have children on the top teams and there are also lots of children of parents in high local positions on the highest teams. It’s not impossible for a less connected kid to make an upper level team, but they have to be extraordinary, which is rare in this area. This is why their teams, outside of a scant few, underperform.

My family and have decided to pull our child out after this fall season. 2 more families are joining us from our team.

I know my neighbor, with child from opposite gender, is also leaving Loudoun. We experienced some of the above and we believe we don’t need to participate in any charlatan’s show in order for kids to enjoy and have fun.

Will I have serious problems obtaining my child’s player card? Some of the stories that have been shared here and shared to me via word of mouth aren’t very optimistic but I don’t see how they can hold it when season is over? We don’t pay in advance for this very reason.

+1. The root of Loudoun Soccer issues here.

Take it to VYSA and they’ll reprimand Loudoun. They can’t hold your player card. But do expect it to happen. When we did our calls and emails went unanswered for over a month. Talk about professionalism.

I wish that were the extent of the problems at Loudoun.

It’s the tip of the iceberg. Soccer community (except LS staffers, parents with vested interest in the club, and ignorant families) are well aware of the unfixable problems at Loudoun $occer.

I'm curios,...does your kid play for LS?

Most of the comments have come from former Loudoun parents. I agree with the comments from those parents, and I had several children in their system.

Not PP, but also former LS parent. No, my kids aren’t bad at soccer. They play ECNL elsewhere. Where it doesn’t matter.
But what’s been and being posted here is true to the core. My kids came up the ranks but when you see dignity, professionalism, and respect thrown out the window you really have to come to terms and decide whether you are ok representing (and paying) a crooked club whose sole purpose is to maintain the incomes of the 5 folks whose salaries were made public.

They lucked out hard af when this fall didn’t get cancelled.