Anonymous
02/21/2026 13:54
Subject: Valor
Go to the US Soccer learning center and search on the coach
You can see all their qualifications
You can see all their qualifications
Anonymous
02/21/2026 12:16
Subject: Valor
Does anyone have any info to share on these two USL coaches? Serena Pham, Bashir Hooper
Anonymous
02/16/2026 16:33
Subject: Valor
Considering the 2nd and 3rd team kids are basically interchangeable at Valor, I'm sure the 3rd team kids love seeing the 2nd teamers getting to go on these fun trips while they go nowhere.
Anonymous
02/16/2026 13:12
Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:it’s a trip that u15s or u14s go every year. Parents don’t go. It’s a way for kids to get travel and time zone experience. It’s fairly intentional.Anonymous wrote:How do they decide which teams get to go to San Antonio or other big trips? I have a younger player, just wondering.
OK, so no matter what level team (2nd, 3rd) all the kids get to go?
Generally speaking, 3rd and below don’t ever go to tournaments outside of the DMV.
Anonymous
02/16/2026 10:48
Subject: Valor
I don’t know about that. Look at the tournament schedule.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:it’s a trip that u15s or u14s go every year. Parents don’t go. It’s a way for kids to get travel and time zone experience. It’s fairly intentional.Anonymous wrote:How do they decide which teams get to go to San Antonio or other big trips? I have a younger player, just wondering.
OK, so no matter what level team (2nd, 3rd) all the kids get to go?
Anonymous
02/16/2026 10:38
Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:
The relevance is that 60% of your players staying 40% leaving isn't actually a good percentage. The club overall going from 3 teams to 2 teams for 9v9 isn't a great metric. Especially when they have to go to 11v11 next year. But if you like your coach to belittle and provide false promises for a middling level club then you do you.
If you go back and read the past couple of pages here is how it reads. New coach comes in, some players leave team, team still successful without them, butthurt parents of kids who left can't handle and still shitpost on valor thread.
At the end of the season the top team most likely losses multiple players to fvu because they (valor) are the best team in the area, at least based on team record from the fall. Sounds like the coach is doing the things he is paid to do.
Half this thread is people calling out VALOR's cheating scheme to boost their metrics and raise their fees and people still fall for it
Anonymous
02/16/2026 07:33
Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:it’s a trip that u15s or u14s go every year. Parents don’t go. It’s a way for kids to get travel and time zone experience. It’s fairly intentional.Anonymous wrote:How do they decide which teams get to go to San Antonio or other big trips? I have a younger player, just wondering.
OK, so no matter what level team (2nd, 3rd) all the kids get to go?
Anonymous
02/16/2026 07:29
Subject: Valor
it’s a trip that u15s or u14s go every year. Parents don’t go. It’s a way for kids to get travel and time zone experience. It’s fairly intentional.Anonymous wrote:How do they decide which teams get to go to San Antonio or other big trips? I have a younger player, just wondering.
Anonymous
02/16/2026 07:28
Subject: Valor
How do they decide which teams get to go to San Antonio or other big trips? I have a younger player, just wondering.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 13:18
Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:Frankly, that's an unfair blanket statement. We have had, and have friends who have had kids on second teams who had very good coaches. The 2011 boys and girls second team coaches both have won state titles. There are some very good younger coaches who also have second teams. I'm not familiar with every coach at the club of course so only speaking to those I am. As with any club, there will be stronger and weaker coaches but to make it sound like there are no decent coaches on teams below the top teams is ridiculous.
So Valor runs around collecting all these all star coaches for their low level teams but then....keeps them all a secret until after tryouts. OK.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 12:42
Subject: Valor
Frankly, that's an unfair blanket statement. We have had, and have friends who have had kids on second teams who had very good coaches. The 2011 boys and girls second team coaches both have won state titles. There are some very good younger coaches who also have second teams. I'm not familiar with every coach at the club of course so only speaking to those I am. As with any club, there will be stronger and weaker coaches but to make it sound like there are no decent coaches on teams below the top teams is ridiculous.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 10:34
Subject: Valor
I can see how that would be very annoying but on the other hand, no one would go to a valor second or third or fourth or fifth team anyway if they had any other option so the coach hire is kind of a moot point.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 10:18
Subject: Valor
For our DD they told them at tryouts who the coaches were.Anonymous wrote:IIRC last year right before tryouts they put out a list of first team coaches for each age and tried to pretend like that was the same thing as a coach slate. Then they held tryouts and no one knew who the coaches were. People were posting on here trying to get information because Valor would not tell anyone who was coach anything but wanted parents to commit.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 09:56
Subject: Valor
IIRC last year right before tryouts they put out a list of first team coaches for each age and tried to pretend like that was the same thing as a coach slate. Then they held tryouts and no one knew who the coaches were. People were posting on here trying to get information because Valor would not tell anyone who was coach anything but wanted parents to commit.
Anonymous
02/11/2026 10:46
Subject: Valor
It was AFTER tryouts last year. They expected people to try out and accept offers with out knowing who their coach would be, then they hired a bunch of inexperienced yahoos and parents.