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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The end of this season cannot come quick enough.   What a mistake joining this club was.  [/quote]

What is wrong? We are moving into the area (Centreville) this spring and we were told they are a top club in the area. My two kids are strong soccer players from NCFC.

I am second guessing now.[/quote]

Man, if 172 pages of unhappy customers doesn't steer you away, I don't know what will![/quote]

+100. I know this is a niche website but its kinda amazing that anyone shows up to their tryouts. [/quote]

This board very much skews toward parents trying to position their kids to play in top leagues and get recruited for college... particularly for girls. Look at the threads that are most popular. Most parents just aren't thinking about travel soccer that way. They see it as something their kid enjoys that they are willing to pay for. They aren't constantly comparing one club to the other trying to get their kid on the "best" team in the "best" league. I agree Valor is not a good fit for families like that, and no one should fall for Valor trying to portray themselves as an elite club. But most parents do not care about that anyway. They like the locations of the fields and the fact that their kids can play with classmates and carpool with neighbors. They have the money and are willing to pay more for this convenience. That's really all there is to it. Most parents know their kid isn't headed on some elite path. The ones that have potential for that do tend to leave.

I have one child on a top team at Valor who works hard, loves soccer and wants to try to get on the best team that will accept them. So we are looking into that this spring. I have another child who likes soccer but frankly isn't great at it and doesn't have a very strong work ethic. Not moving to travel for them yet, but not ruling out Valor if rec stops being a good fit. I'm sure it would be on a lower team and that is fine. It would keep our child active and busy doing something they enjoy. Sometimes that's all that matters. You just have to know what you are signing up for. I'm sure some parents are clueless/delusional, but I suspect most who stick with Valor for more than a year or two understand the situation and are fine with it. Not everything has to be so serious.[/quote]

I disagree, a lot of the complaints on this thread seem to come from parents on the lower teams. Which Valor seems to consider their kids as interchangeable widgets just for revenue and not provides a good, quality experience. Not as many complaints from the top team.[/quote]

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