Anonymous wrote:Re PP. It is more an issue of a bunch of white insta parents co-opting and event that was intended to be a celebration of Latino culture with trainer organized and all star private training team. Its the only way to BE, right?
Anonymous wrote:Re PP. It is more an issue of a bunch of white insta parents co-opting and event that was intended to be a celebration of Latino culture with trainer organized and all star private training team. Its the only way to BE, right?
Anonymous wrote:Quality of play is solid depending on the age group. U-little have a lot of insta kids with absolutely insane sideline parents. U-12 and older have considerably fewer insta-kids if any.
(Pro tip, the scouts are not watching the insta-kids, because they don’t know how to play football, they’re trained to give psycho-mom 10-30s of footage).
Girls play starts today, so that is when the insta-kids will really flood the zone. Yesterday there is one girl on a boys team from
NC that is probably the best u-little soccer player I’ve seen, boy or girl, taking it to the boys. Really impressive and had all of the scouts watching her PM match. IQ was top tier for a youth player.
Older boys were a variety of play. Lots of disorganized teams with one or two extremely capable players that are very talented but on meh teams. Some true standouts. The U15 Amigos team was a lot of fun to watch, they really love the game and were more creative than most youth teams I’ve seen. Lots of scout attention going to that entire team yesterday.
As previous poster mentioned, lots of ad hoc “trainer built” teams. And way too many white people for what Copa Talento is supposed to be providing an opportunity. This has changed a lot over the past couple of years. But CT has also evolved. This year is much better organized than last, and despite all the white people and attention whorish parents, the Latin festival atmosphere has kept CT as a unique gem of a tournament for youth.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Thank you! You cracked the case. It’s a giant conspiracy by DMV coaches to keep us from knowing about Copa Talento.
It’s not on sincsport. That’s why nobody knows about it. It is marketed via its instagram and Latino whatsapp groups. The point isn’t to provide an opportunity to your kids pre-academy or MLSN team. But to Latin league teams and players.
Anonymous wrote:I took my son to Copa Talento in Richmond VA for the first time and let me just say, this is the reason most DMV clubs do not want you to know about this tournament. First games this Friday and the kevel of play, speed of play is on a whole different level. Your DMV club has been fooling parents that their boys are great soccer players until they go to one of these tournaments and realize they have been spoonfed a lie.
Bethesda Soccer Club even sent a warning to players not to go because of player conduct bs. The real reason is because they can't compete.
I saw college scouts there and even scouts from Latin American countries.
Watch all coaches and directors from the DMV start to comment here to discredit Copa Talento.
Parents, I dare you to bring your son next year. It will be an eye opener for sure.
Happy 4th!
Anonymous wrote:Quality of play is solid depending on the age group. U-little have a lot of insta kids with absolutely insane sideline parents. U-12 and older have considerably fewer insta-kids if any.
(Pro tip, the scouts are not watching the insta-kids, because they don’t know how to play football, they’re trained to give psycho-mom 10-30s of footage).
Girls play starts today, so that is when the insta-kids will really flood the zone. Yesterday there is one girl on a boys team from
NC that is probably the best u-little soccer player I’ve seen, boy or girl, taking it to the boys. Really impressive and had all of the scouts watching her PM match. IQ was top tier for a youth player.
Older boys were a variety of play. Lots of disorganized teams with one or two extremely capable players that are very talented but on meh teams. Some true standouts. The U15 Amigos team was a lot of fun to watch, they really love the game and were more creative than most youth teams I’ve seen. Lots of scout attention going to that entire team yesterday.
As previous poster mentioned, lots of ad hoc “trainer built” teams. And way too many white people for what Copa Talento is supposed to be providing an opportunity. This has changed a lot over the past couple of years. But CT has also evolved. This year is much better organized than last, and despite all the white people and attention whorish parents, the Latin festival atmosphere has kept CT as a unique gem of a tournament for youth.
Anonymous wrote:Thank you! You cracked the case. It’s a giant conspiracy by DMV coaches to keep us from knowing about Copa Talento.