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Anonymous wrote:Even worse, Valor uses the parent coaches for the weakest teams. They don't care about their lower level players, its just revenue producing widgets to them.

So its like a bad rec team, with a bad rec coach, but for a travel price.

OK ... practices are better than Rec. But traveling 4 hours to watch the coaches daughter get yelled at and play the whole game is certainty not what I signed my daughter up for. She's at the point where she doesn't want to waste her time going to games, especially when she has other things she could be doing.

Did this parent have any professional coaching experience?
I'm baffled by this whole situation. I assume Valor is paying this parent coach the same rate they pay their real coaches.

So compared to rec----you are basically paying $2800 more than rec soccer for one extra practice a week. Run by a know-nothing parent coach.

No professional coaching experience that I am aware of. Valor does occasionally have people walking around monitoring the practices. I think there is some thought and preparation and effort that is going into the practices. So it's not a total loss. It's the games where the favortism and tone and inability to coach really is amplified.

Good to know we are not the only parents who feel this way. Our daughter is on this team as well and I can’t disagree with what I’ve read here regarding the Coach. Last season we saw the growth not just in our daughter but the entire team. Parents were way more into it than now and the team was fun and exciting to watch with lots of close tourney matches where they won and lost. It is a completely different vibe and tone all around from last season.

Is this the lowest 2011 girls team?

That coach (2011 white) isn’t shy to show his favoritism! But think it was stated the post is about a 2014 team.

lol i see nva has done a lot of vetting when choosing "partners"

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Good to know we are not the only parents who feel this way. Our daughter is on this team as well and I can’t disagree with what I’ve read here regarding the Coach. Last season we saw the growth not just in our daughter but the entire team. Parents were way more into it than now and the team was fun and exciting to watch with lots of close tourney matches where they won and lost. It is a completely different vibe and tone all around from last season.

Anyone have any popcorn DCUM never fails to deliver. I think I’m caught up but not sure if I missed something from the above.

So daddyball coach with 2 kids on the team got fired for being abusive to players but it was a “completely different vibe and tone all around” where “the parents were way more into it”, ??

No, the daddyball coach with 2 kids on the team was a DIFFERENT team than the OP team with the bait and switch parent coach with one daughter who screams at her the whole time. Two separate garbage money grabs.

OP team is 2014 White it’s not a different team another PP already confirmed it earlier in thread. By now I hope the coach has read this. It will be confirmed when his kid sits the bench this week for the first 5 minutes, he stops texting during the game, and says nothing but positive things to his kid while she’s on the field. Problem solved. Moving on.

No. OP said their team had a real coach last year and dad coach this year. 2014G white (formerly silver) had a dad coach last year with 2 kids on the team, but I think (?) that team has a “real” coach this year.

I saw the dad coach talking to that 2014 team after a game last spring. I think they had lost. The only way I can describe what he was doing is bizarre. He was being pretty mean but somehow also weird at the same time. I have never seen anything like it can can’t really describe it. Glad to hear he isn’t coaching anymore.

Valor needs to stop being so greedy and accept that they should only have no more than 3 teams at the younger ages and 2 at the older ages. Stop worrying about social media posts and start worrying about lack of player development.

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Good to know we are not the only parents who feel this way. Our daughter is on this team as well and I can’t disagree with what I’ve read here regarding the Coach. Last season we saw the growth not just in our daughter but the entire team. Parents were way more into it than now and the team was fun and exciting to watch with lots of close tourney matches where they won and lost. It is a completely different vibe and tone all around from last season.

Anyone have any popcorn DCUM never fails to deliver. I think I’m caught up but not sure if I missed something from the above.

So daddyball coach with 2 kids on the team got fired for being abusive to players but it was a “completely different vibe and tone all around” where “the parents were way more into it”, ??

No, the daddyball coach with 2 kids on the team was a DIFFERENT team than the OP team with the bait and switch parent coach with one daughter who screams at her the whole time. Two separate garbage money grabs.

OP team is 2014 White it’s not a different team another PP already confirmed it earlier in thread. By now I hope the coach has read this. It will be confirmed when his kid sits the bench this week for the first 5 minutes, he stops texting during the game, and says nothing but positive things to his kid while she’s on the field. Problem solved. Moving on.

Its hard to keep all the bad parent coaches over there straight to be fair.

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Good to know we are not the only parents who feel this way. Our daughter is on this team as well and I can’t disagree with what I’ve read here regarding the Coach. Last season we saw the growth not just in our daughter but the entire team. Parents were way more into it than now and the team was fun and exciting to watch with lots of close tourney matches where they won and lost. It is a completely different vibe and tone all around from last season.

Anyone have any popcorn DCUM never fails to deliver. I think I’m caught up but not sure if I missed something from the above.

So daddyball coach with 2 kids on the team got fired for being abusive to players but it was a “completely different vibe and tone all around” where “the parents were way more into it”, ??

No, the daddyball coach with 2 kids on the team was a DIFFERENT team than the OP team with the bait and switch parent coach with one daughter who screams at her the whole time. Two separate garbage money grabs.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I hope you’re not talking about 2014G White because if so you haven’t mentioned that your coach last year (when it was the Silver team) was not only a daddyball coach, he had TWO kids on that team! To Valor’s credit, at least, they got rid of him at the end of the year because of how abusive he was to the players he wasn’t related to.

Not to mention one of daddyball’s kids was a 2016 playing up 2 years!

That's ridiculous to play up two years in club. Not fair to the other girls on the team to have a little baby training with them. I hope the next coach they found wasn't a parent. They seem to stick the worst teams with the parent coaches (for the same price as being on a good team with a possibly good coach)

Anonymous wrote:OP, I hope you’re not talking about 2014G White because if so you haven’t mentioned that your coach last year (when it was the Silver team) was not only a daddyball coach, he had TWO kids on that team! To Valor’s credit, at least, they got rid of him at the end of the year because of how abusive he was to the players he wasn’t related to.

Not to mention one of daddyball’s kids was a 2016 playing up 2 years!

As suspected I'm the only one that cringes when he yells at his daughter and thinks that the nepotism is an issue. Apparently 1 other player played more than her so nothing to see here folks.

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Good to know we are not the only parents who feel this way. Our daughter is on this team as well and I can’t disagree with what I’ve read here regarding the Coach. Last season we saw the growth not just in our daughter but the entire team. Parents were way more into it than now and the team was fun and exciting to watch with lots of close tourney matches where they won and lost. It is a completely different vibe and tone all around from last season.

Anyone have any popcorn DCUM never fails to deliver. I think I’m caught up but not sure if I missed something from the above.

So daddyball coach with 2 kids on the team got fired for being abusive to players but it was a “completely different vibe and tone all around” where “the parents were way more into it”, ??

This is really the most disgusting club. They don't even pretend to care about the kids.

Anonymous wrote:OP, I hope you’re not talking about 2014G White because if so you haven’t mentioned that your coach last year (when it was the Silver team) was not only a daddyball coach, he had TWO kids on that team! To Valor’s credit, at least, they got rid of him at the end of the year because of how abusive he was to the players he wasn’t related to.

Again... was not my kids coach last year. So going from 2 to 1 is an improvement. Bravo Valor I guess.

OP, I hope you’re not talking about 2014G White because if so you haven’t mentioned that your coach last year (when it was the Silver team) was not only a daddyball coach, he had TWO kids on that team! To Valor’s credit, at least, they got rid of him at the end of the year because of how abusive he was to the players he wasn’t related to.

Anonymous wrote:How many parent coaches does Valor have?
Usually when club soccer has a parent coach, its a completely different category of team, the parent is unpaid, and the team fees are 1/3rd the cost.

Not many, maybe 2-3. Not sure about the boys.

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Anonymous wrote:Its really fraudulent to not tell people their team is getting a parent coach before they commit for the season. Most would choose elsewhere.

The good news is that i know for a fact that Valor sleazeballs obsessively check this thread for their names so maybe something will be done (doubtful, since they already have your money, but maybe a shred of integrity is left somewhere in Valor's fancy offices that you are paying for).

Well then I've already outed myself because I've brought this up. My kid will probably be retaliated against and will stop going to games. Not many options at this point.

How would they know its you? Probably most of the parents on the team are unhappy.
NO ONE wants a parent coach.

Because I'm the one speaking up about it to the coach and above.... i really hope others will join me.

There is no way you are the only parent complaining about this bait and switch team situation and this unhinged daddyball coach.

They aren't unless the club has the same problem in multiple age groups. We just got back from Williamsburg and I could have written this exact thread of complaints.

Are you raising the issue with Valor? If so I could use some backup .