Have had a great experience with MSI Academy for U13 girls.

Among other things, MSI was one of the few clubs around to make full refunds available when the entire season was cancelled last spring.

We've found that it's a good level of training for DD, who needed something more than rec or classic but is not someone for whom soccer is the most important thing in her life. What sold me were coaches who were focused on specific goals: preparing players to play at the HS level (v. competitive in some parts of the county!) and also retaining players through middle school -- when there is the highest % of drop-off.

Good luck!

I watched a MSI U11 boys game this past weekend. All the MSI coach did was scream at the kids "Who wants it?" as the kids ran around just kicking the ball has hard as they could. But you know what? They won! Sign me up!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why aren’t there more options in Maryland?

There are plenty of options, depends on what your looking for, just options off the top of my head in no particular order:

Benefica, PPA, Potomac, Bethesda, MSI, Achilles, Go Premier, Juventus etc...

Maryland United, Montgomery Rush, Baltimore Armour, Baltimore Celtic Union, etc.....

Anonymous wrote:Why aren’t there more options in Maryland?

There are plenty of options, depends on what your looking for, just options off the top of my head in no particular order:

Benefica, PPA, Potomac, Bethesda, MSI, Achilles, Go Premier, Juventus etc...

Why aren’t there more options in Maryland?

NP here - if you’re going to go all in then it doesn’t seem to make a difference what club (MSI Academy versus other travel programs) - maybe get a sense of the coaches, parents, players at a few during tryouts and go from there.

Anonymous wrote:Not confused. He coaches one of the boys and one of the girls teams:

http://totalfutbol.com/staff/fabio-vicente

MSI coaches have regular non-soccer related professions/jobs while others have coaching/training businesses in addition to being MSI coaches. But this doesn’t and shouldn’t change how MSI pays these coaches or how much parents pay as player fees. Unless the coach charges more cause he offers additional physical or soccer training outside of regular team training or additional tournaments, the fees have to be very similar.

We were in one of his teams and had no idea what we were getting into. It’s a big VA program so kids were double rostered etc and the price was more than what MSI Academy stated because they were an outside program.

Not confused. He coaches one of the boys and one of the girls teams:

http://totalfutbol.com/staff/fabio-vicente