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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PROS:
(1) This is a club that TRAINS their younger kids well. For any child up to 12 years old, this is a friendly club, with caring coaches, and they do focus on technical drills and development.  
(2) Everyone gets equal playing time, so if your kid needs to develop, this is a good place.

CONS:
(1) Don't listen to any talk about a prior '99 "ranked" team.  They won during their senior year at an inferior level of play and after most good players (from other teams) have been accepted to college teams.  FCGB has never won the top-flite of tournaments.
[b](2) Since they had a winning '99 team, they have not been able to put together another winning team - this is because of the coaches (NOT because of the talent on the team).[/b]
(3) They coach to the lowest denominator, so if you have a talented child, they will stall pretty quickly - they will teach the same thing over and over as the less skilled kids develop. 
(4) Although this club does well for "training", they cannot coach a game to save their lives.  They do bizarre things (like implement new formations, and play kids out of position, and play the worst players during critical parts of a tournament), to ensure the teams lose. 
(5) The coaches love to lose games.  They do everything possible to handicap the teams play.  They have no idea how to rotate players.  Sometimes, they put in all the worst players at the same time for an entire shift (during tournaments)
(6) For one tournament, our kids made it to the championship finals.  They lost to a team they previously beat by over 5 goals.  This happened, because on the day of the finals, the coach implemented a new formation the kids had never played before, and switched the positions of all the players.  Nobody knew what was going on and the entire team looked lost and stupid.
(7) The coaches are stubborn.  They will hold "Parent/Player" meetings periodically, but say the exact same things: "This is our way, and we are not going to change anything". 
(8) FCGB teaches a slow style of play that, oddly enough, always ends up with the players kicking it back to the goalie 1000 times.  We have played many games where our goalie received 10X more passes than any other player.  It just looks stupid. 
(9) If you have a kid with any talent at all, you have to leave after 12 years old and learn to play how every other competitive club plays.

Hope this helps.

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What are you talking about?! After the 99 team, the next team that they have fielded is the 03 team. No, not the highest caliber team, but still able to compete with Rush A team filled with players who are not gifted with talent. They made them exceed their potential.

The next team that they have with "talent" is the 06 team. No, they don't win everything, but they are a winning team by winning far more times than they lose. Sure, the team has a few individuals who would have made ECNL teams without FCGB, but the vast majority of them wouldn't have and still are able to compete with ECNL teams. The coaches did that. Good luck finding a club that wins every game.  If they are that good, and your dd goes to them, good luck with your daughter getting any playing time. My guess is that you think your dd is so talented. Come back to this thread in a year and let us know how many minutes your daughter is playing on her new winning team. [/quote]

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