Look at all these suckers, ya'll. Hilarious.

https://www.virginiavalorfc.org/valorwintergala

$100 a ticket to go to a crappy meal "celebrating" a crappy program? LOL. Wow. The grift simply never ends with these people.

I bet they pressure the hell out of parents to buy the tickets too.

Almost every single team we have played had had more than one coach. We get an inexperienced parent coach with no assistant. Management doesn't even pretend to care.

Parents of talented players recognize that the training is poor to nonexistent and they leave the program.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Valor doesn't develop players so even though they have many players in a given age group,
they are mediocre and can't compete at NVA level.

+1. Mathematically, they should have more star players simply due to their enormous horde of players. Very few rise to the top due to poor training.

ga aspire might be calling this talent. Stay tuned

At $3000 per player for a crappy team with parent coaches, a cheap buffet meal should be included in the 3k.

Anonymous wrote:Oh the valor gala is coming up- who in the right mind is paying $100/head?!

What?

Anonymous wrote:With all the lay offs, how do I get a job with Valor so I can mooch off of these suckers?

More expensive doesn’t mean better…

Terrible waste of resources!

They will hire any warm body to coach. Coacha couple teams, combine all the practices, and make parents pay for private lessons so their kids play.

Oh the valor gala is coming up- who in the right mind is paying $100/head?!

With all the lay offs, how do I get a job with Valor so I can mooch off of these suckers?

More expensive doesn’t mean better…

Terrible waste of resources!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So is it better to be on Valor’s first team or Loudoun’s second team, in terms of chances of making NVA? Or do neither have a realistic chance of making it over kids from outside either club?

Outside > Loundon 2nd team > Valor top team in terms of Loundon preference.

Oddly, this sort of bias is true. We were at a smaller club trying out at the 1st team at a bigger club and based on the coaches reactions, they instantly grouped my kid with the 3rd team at tryouts. Also, we did training at Capstone and Next Start, when they found out what club we were from... were automatically placed in the lower quality training groups.

This is pretty much what EVERY large club does if you show up at tryouts, they’ve never seen your child before and you’re from a different club. Starting “outsiders in the middle isn’t a slap in the face, that’s just where it’s easiest to judge if a kid needs to move up (or down) very quickly.

Only place I’ve ever seen it different was at LS “tryouts” where they put all the outsiders together before plugging them into appropriate competition level.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So is it better to be on Valor’s first team or Loudoun’s second team, in terms of chances of making NVA? Or do neither have a realistic chance of making it over kids from outside either club?

Outside > Loundon 2nd team > Valor top team in terms of Loundon preference.

Oddly, this sort of bias is true. We were at a smaller club trying out at the 1st team at a bigger club and based on the coaches reactions, they instantly grouped my kid with the 3rd team at tryouts. Also, we did training at Capstone and Next Start, when they found out what club we were from... were automatically placed in the lower quality training groups.

its not oddly.. its what happens.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So is it better to be on Valor’s first team or Loudoun’s second team, in terms of chances of making NVA? Or do neither have a realistic chance of making it over kids from outside either club?

Outside > Loundon 2nd team > Valor top team in terms of Loundon preference.

Oddly, this sort of bias is true. We were at a smaller club trying out at the 1st team at a bigger club and based on the coaches reactions, they instantly grouped my kid with the 3rd team at tryouts. Also, we did training at Capstone and Next Start, when they found out what club we were from... were automatically placed in the lower quality training groups.

Anonymous wrote:The end of this season cannot come quick enough. What a mistake joining this club was.

Can you provide more details for anyone to read when they are doing tryouts in a month or two?

The end of this season cannot come quick enough. What a mistake joining this club was.