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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Philip Gyau coaches at BSC and privately at NextStar. Does he favor players? Most kids who train with NextStar are already quite good and super motivated so I assume that gets them playing time. [/quote]

A few kids at NextStar are "quite good" and would be quite good with or without NS.
They are the bait.

The rest are lured to drop big bucks on the false premise that they will get a leg up and access and rostered to top age group teams at Bethesda. 
Especially MLS Next teams.[/quote]
Who is doing the “luring” in this scenario? And lol re “the bait”. You are describing a situation where the most talented kids who train with NextStar end up with playing time on top teams, which leads ambitious parents to think maybe their kid will get to that level if only they put in enough hours doing the same private training. NextStar didn’t make you pay them the money and your kid can progress well on his own if he’s talented and puts in the hours.

I generally agree with OP’s point re the conflict of interest, especially if you are talking about coaches that work only or mostly with their current club players. That’s pretty much always a disaster for team morale. I don’t think it’s much of an issue where you are talking about a company like NextStar or some of the other big training programs in the area. For NextStar, hundreds of kids of all ages are doing those sessions, most of whom will never be eligible to play on the one or two teams PG coaches, and PT doesn’t coach any club teams as far as I know. PG has decades of history of spotting talented kids in our area and nurturing their talents, and has done so regardless of their parent’s ability to pay. A large percentage of men and women who have gone pro from our area were trained by him, and his pro and college protégés always train with him when they are free. The fact that he’s finally working in a structure that hopefully pays him decent money is a good thing for the level of soccer in the area. [/quote]

Most NS clients are Bethesda players or trying to join Bethesda. 
Where are these sessions with "hundreds of kids" kept?
Many NS most talented players are already on top Bethesda teams.
Anyone putting in quality extra work anywhere will improve. 
No one mentioned the quality of the sessions being bad.
Isn't it a conflict of interest that the club Bethesda allows a private for profit entity to use their training fields for a Bethesda coach to do private training for some kids on his team?

An earlier poster mentioned appearance of impropriety or quid pro quo.
Bethesda allows Bethesda coach to make private money training some Bethesda kids who move up their age group ranks while parents who do not pay to train with him see their kids do not advance. 
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I’m not sure it matters that most NextStar clients are BSC or BSC wannabe kids.  The vast majority of them will never have a shot of playing for PG at BSC because they are not age- or gender- eligible for the teams or team (not sure if he coaches more than one) he coaches. And there are a lot of non-BSC players who train with them, including pro and college kids and kids who play for other MLS Next clubs.

There are obviously not sessions with hundreds of kids, but I expect that 100+ different kids attend at least a couple of group sessions with them each year.

I’m not sure why it’s a problem for NextStar to use Wootton when the fields are unoccupied. Other groups not affiliated with BSC or NextStar do as well.  I’ve seen any number of American football and speed and agility trainings take place there. And every private trainer is going to set up camp wherever they can.

I understand the conflict of interest argument.  I do not actually think there is any quid pro quo happening with NextStar. Most kids who train with them will not end up on top teams. And all of BSC’s top teams have kids who don’t train with NextStar.  PG is not going to advocate for any kid he doesn’t think is talented, and if you know him, you’d know that he has trained a lot of very talented kids in this area for free.  Other trainers or programs probably have more problematic practices.

The issue is a tricky one, though, because the best private trainers are really important for kid’s’ development.  Yes, you have to put the work in on your own, but it’s obviously beneficial to have as much exposure as possible to the handful of coaches and trainers who know exactly what they are doing and have the ability to inspire kids to work harder. Clubs and kids benefit from the extra development. [/quote]

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