False 8 Futsal

[Anonymous]

cone drills can be done anywhere and learned on youtube. Parents are paying for affirmation and inclusion in something perceived as “elite,” not training.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too many on here are absolutely lost in the sauce and thats the main problem with youth sports. Imagine letting a club neutral program tell you what you can do with your child in your free time. If you have F8 training and tournament then play with them as they expect. If you are free then go play wherever you want. If you let any program restrict you and your child then thats your own fault and you deserve to be left behind.

We are trying out F8 futsal this year and we havent had a single game yet.. so I dont know where the "my child isnt getting opportunities to play but goes to every session". We go to every session and if my child doesnt get a fair chance then my tune will change. But lets not create false narratives for parents who are actually trying.

F8 sessions might be 40-50 kids but they are broken into groups of maybe 10 max with a coach. Again more lies because you are said your kid isnt on IG? Who cares about IG and your parent managed account. Will your kid get better from extra touch and extra sessions? If you dont think so then please share where kids should be running to for extra training

+1. The obsession of some with how this club runs their IG feed by people who allegedly don't care about IG is so DCUM. It's the kind of lie you can only tell anonymously because it's so preposterous that even the speaker wouldn't dare say it out loud. Please stop the foolishness. I couldn't care less if my kid made it or didn't make it to the IG feed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does everyone get to play on different teams. It seems like they mix ages and teams.

No they don’t mix. We are looking at other futsal clubs and having my child leave the program. I think coaches should practice what they preach on Instagram.

I also agree. A typical False8 session: (A parent's perspective)

40-50 kids arrive.
Warm Ups.
-Demonstrations are completed by the same kids over and over, the IG kids.
IG Kids are put into 1 or 2 groups.
Everyone else is split into other groups.
Kids do all the circuits.
They film the IG kids for a post that day.
Your kid is left keeping up with the other kids.
Concluding session and motivational speech by 1 Coach.
-End result: 10 kids feel like they belong, 40 kids are just grinding away doing sloppy reps wondering why they signed up.

Some pros: The fitness is high level, lots of touches, motivational speech at the end
Big areas to improve: Newer kids might feel invisible, the secondary coaches (station coaches) just keep the kids moving, its so much hustle for little kids, some might not want to come back, parents who are juiced in/ bulldozer parents who talk to the instructors before hand seem to have their kid featured more, this is a Type A dog-eat-dog training program

Personally, we Love/ Hate it. My kid doesn't want to go unless they have a good friend going too. And it takes a bit to convince other parents to send their kids as they have a negative rep for the older kids & families (that is why they primarily only have little kids attend (u8-u10). We just do the random sessions and are not on the Futsal program.

The touches are all that matters. The instagram thing is completely irrelevant. Who cares either way?

The point is that the kids aren’t getting anything quality as they only care about the ones on IG. The coaches are just there joking around with each other and not coaching any kids.

. Please stop posting this nonsense and go seek professional help. Nobody, including you, should care about this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The False 8 hype is over. There was a point in the beginning before social media took over that CR might have somewhat cared about the kids.

Now, you can tell he only focuses on a handful of players. Again, like a broken record those IG stars are talented but CR and False 8 did not develop them.

All these club neutrals clubs will grab all the best kids and post them on their social media and have people believe they had something to do with their development.

False 8, In10sity and Champions Premier all does it.

So the clubs don’t care about the kids and the club-neutral programs don’t care about the kids? Is it like this everywhere or just the DMV?

Yes unfortunately

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:16 teams, 16 trophies at the Alexandria tournament this weekend. You heard it here first.

Real quiet now

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:16 teams, 16 trophies at the Alexandria tournament this weekend. You heard it here first.

Real quiet now

Tumbleweeds

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The False 8 hype is over. There was a point in the beginning before social media took over that CR might have somewhat cared about the kids.

Now, you can tell he only focuses on a handful of players. Again, like a broken record those IG stars are talented but CR and False 8 did not develop them.

All these club neutrals clubs will grab all the best kids and post them on their social media and have people believe they had something to do with their development.

False 8, In10sity and Champions Premier all does it.

So the clubs don’t care about the kids and the club-neutral programs don’t care about the kids? Is it like this everywhere or just the DMV?

Yes unfortunately

Who cares about the players? Nobody?

[Anonymous]

The 2014 boys and 2013 girls are very good. That is what instagram taught me

[Anonymous]

I think they only won 1 age group. But thats not surprising to me. It was a quality tournament, competition wise.

But what might be surprising to some parents is the coaches likely do not posses a single futsal coaching license or played futsal growing up.

By and large the kids are getting better, but you will see them struggle against local and regional futsal clubs who really do specialize in futsal skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they only won 1 age group. But thats not surprising to me. It was a quality tournament, competition wise.

But what might be surprising to some parents is the coaches likely do not posses a single futsal coaching license or played futsal growing up.

By and large the kids are getting better, but you will see them struggle against local and regional futsal clubs who really do specialize in futsal skills.

But they are supposed to be a futsal club. An aggregation of talent of some of the tops clubs. They are not Alexandria, Arlington or BSC who play soccer indoors under a futsal banner.

[Anonymous]

No they are a performance training club who realized there was money to be made in futsal from thirsty parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No they are a performance training club who realized there was money to be made in futsal from thirsty parents.

Ok, and is that some kind of problem? Not like they are the only club trying to capitalize from customers interested in futsal. Why is the money grab thing the talking point yet once again. ALL businesses are a money grab thing, the government is the biggest money entity in the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No they are a performance training club who realized there was money to be made in futsal from thirsty parents.

As someone who recognized a fair number of their players from outdoor, they’ve done a good job of aggregating talent and then doing nothing with it to my eye.

It’s not soccer inside…. There’s a lot of skills that crossover and are useful, but it’s to soccer what 3v3 is to basketball, which is yeah the same sport but a vastly different game. And you either know it, understand it and can coach it, or you don’t.

And my .02 is they don’t.

[Anonymous]

Also, they brought in (visible on IG) guest players who don’t even live in this area and they still didn’t make it out of their bracket. I’d be POd to pay for this program only to have non paying ringers fly in to participate. SMH.

Not sure how they are going to build up any loyalty doing that.

[Anonymous]

The 2014s have one very phenomenal player who they feature. I am sure that is not the only AG.