Anonymous wrote:I think the FCB boys looked lost, maybe it's the fact that they don't play in matches too often, but our boys didn't seem to play as a team. A few had good footskills, but not many of them displayed the soccer IQ one would expect. For those that were there, what are your thoughts?

My thoughts are, in no particular order:


The US team didn't even f*cking qualify for the World Cup.

And has never won one.

Can OP be truly that lost?

Maybe OP is Mourinho?

This happened 10 years ago but it was called the "Brazilian Way" of training. What happened to all of those Brazilian camps and coaches?? they used to be everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:My life doesn’t depend upon Escola’s success and neither does any kid who attends. I’m open minded enough to have my kid try the program out. So far, I have been pleased with the training and the progress my DC has made.

For the most part Kids are training with their appropriate talent level/peers. Kids play up as well as coed in order to match skill sets.

At the end of the day it is just soccer and you can feel free to research any questions regarding their training model on your own.

I thank you for your concern regarding my DC’s soccer morale in this hyper competitive DC soccer bubble but I suggest that you worry about the program that your kid is in and I’ll worry about the program that my kid is in.

Come on guy, the other poster asked for substance and as I was reading through your post I thought I would eventually get to it. Remove FCB ESCOLA and insert any other program, what youre saying is for those of us parents that are spectators and are commenting on what we see, we should withhold negative opinions because we are NOT part of the program? What do think this forum is for? What if some of us have positive opinions, we should withhold those as well?

This thing about you stick with your program and don't talk negatively about mine doesn't work, it's called "reviews" and in soccer the discussion points is the teams training style, match results, goals scored, level of coaching, youth player enjoyment, training frequency, expectations from coach of player engagement, price, responsiveness, etc. You could have talked about any one of these...

Act like a troll then you want substance? Eff off

Anonymous wrote:My life doesn’t depend upon Escola’s success and neither does any kid who attends. I’m open minded enough to have my kid try the program out. So far, I have been pleased with the training and the progress my DC has made.

For the most part Kids are training with their appropriate talent level/peers. Kids play up as well as coed in order to match skill sets.

At the end of the day it is just soccer and you can feel free to research any questions regarding their training model on your own.

I thank you for your concern regarding my DC’s soccer morale in this hyper competitive DC soccer bubble but I suggest that you worry about the program that your kid is in and I’ll worry about the program that my kid is in.

Come on guy, the other poster asked for substance and as I was reading through your post I thought I would eventually get to it. Remove FCB ESCOLA and insert any other program, what youre saying is for those of us parents that are spectators and are commenting on what we see, we should withhold negative opinions because we are NOT part of the program? What do think this forum is for? What if some of us have positive opinions, we should withhold those as well?

This thing about you stick with your program and don't talk negatively about mine doesn't work, it's called "reviews" and in soccer the discussion points is the teams training style, match results, goals scored, level of coaching, youth player enjoyment, training frequency, expectations from coach of player engagement, price, responsiveness, etc. You could have talked about any one of these...

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Anonymous wrote:My son loved playing soccer and eagerly joined his travel team st U9. He was placed on the GOLD team and the other teammates were ok, but simply didn't look interested in playing soccer, at all.

We lost just about every game, and we lost by large margins, relative to soccer. Regardless of our placement in the league and tournaments, I truly felt that development was important above all else. After my son continued to lose and lose, he started to be live he was a loser. We switched club's and found him a team that wasn't a juggernaut, but loved to compete. It took two more years to see the spark and eagerness in him prior to practices and get to g his uniform together for games.

Why would the club put together the team and release them to the wolves knowing they would get crushed, the only reason I can think of is money. For FUN ESCOLA, I would suggest they NOT join any of the competitions here because wins matter to the parents and to the kids, if they're not ready, don't let them to compete just to be canon fodder.

You really have no idea what you are talking about. The training is excellent and there are pockets of talent and more kids will come. Exactly what money did Barca earn by going to a tournament?

Not only is yours a trolling comment it might be among the absolute dumbest posts I’ve seen in some time. Congrats.

It's really not. There are clubs out there that claim "development over winning" and take just about anyone who shows up. It seems like a noble concept until the teams get shredded, game after game after game, and the kids lose interest in playing.

They will play in leagues next year at an appropriate level. There are lots of leagues with many levels of play. They will not get “shredded” and kids won’t quit the sport. Parents may overreact to early poor results and they would be the problem more than the kids. But thanks for your trolling concern.

What league will they be participating in? Curious to see if they'll start off in NCSL or something different.

My guess they will be in NCSL to start with likely plans to play in NPL eventually.

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Anonymous wrote:My son loved playing soccer and eagerly joined his travel team st U9. He was placed on the GOLD team and the other teammates were ok, but simply didn't look interested in playing soccer, at all.

We lost just about every game, and we lost by large margins, relative to soccer. Regardless of our placement in the league and tournaments, I truly felt that development was important above all else. After my son continued to lose and lose, he started to be live he was a loser. We switched club's and found him a team that wasn't a juggernaut, but loved to compete. It took two more years to see the spark and eagerness in him prior to practices and get to g his uniform together for games.

Why would the club put together the team and release them to the wolves knowing they would get crushed, the only reason I can think of is money. For FUN ESCOLA, I would suggest they NOT join any of the competitions here because wins matter to the parents and to the kids, if they're not ready, don't let them to compete just to be canon fodder.

You really have no idea what you are talking about. The training is excellent and there are pockets of talent and more kids will come. Exactly what money did Barca earn by going to a tournament?

Not only is yours a trolling comment it might be among the absolute dumbest posts I’ve seen in some time. Congrats.

It's really not. There are clubs out there that claim "development over winning" and take just about anyone who shows up. It seems like a noble concept until the teams get shredded, game after game after game, and the kids lose interest in playing.

They will play in leagues next year at an appropriate level. There are lots of leagues with many levels of play. They will not get “shredded” and kids won’t quit the sport. Parents may overreact to early poor results and they would be the problem more than the kids. But thanks for your trolling concern.

What league will they be participating in? Curious to see if they'll start off in NCSL or something different.

My life doesn’t depend upon Escola’s success and neither does any kid who attends. I’m open minded enough to have my kid try the program out. So far, I have been pleased with the training and the progress my DC has made.

For the most part Kids are training with their appropriate talent level/peers. Kids play up as well as coed in order to match skill sets.

At the end of the day it is just soccer and you can feel free to research any questions regarding their training model on your own.

I thank you for your concern regarding my DC’s soccer morale in this hyper competitive DC soccer bubble but I suggest that you worry about the program that your kid is in and I’ll worry about the program that my kid is in.

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Anonymous wrote:My son loved playing soccer and eagerly joined his travel team st U9. He was placed on the GOLD team and the other teammates were ok, but simply didn't look interested in playing soccer, at all.

We lost just about every game, and we lost by large margins, relative to soccer. Regardless of our placement in the league and tournaments, I truly felt that development was important above all else. After my son continued to lose and lose, he started to be live he was a loser. We switched club's and found him a team that wasn't a juggernaut, but loved to compete. It took two more years to see the spark and eagerness in him prior to practices and get to g his uniform together for games.

Why would the club put together the team and release them to the wolves knowing they would get crushed, the only reason I can think of is money. For FUN ESCOLA, I would suggest they NOT join any of the competitions here because wins matter to the parents and to the kids, if they're not ready, don't let them to compete just to be canon fodder.

You really have no idea what you are talking about. The training is excellent and there are pockets of talent and more kids will come. Exactly what money did Barca earn by going to a tournament?

Not only is yours a trolling comment it might be among the absolute dumbest posts I’ve seen in some time. Congrats.

It's really not. There are clubs out there that claim "development over winning" and take just about anyone who shows up. It seems like a noble concept until the teams get shredded, game after game after game, and the kids lose interest in playing.

They will play in leagues next year at an appropriate level. There are lots of leagues with many levels of play. They will not get “shredded” and kids won’t quit the sport. Parents may overreact to early poor results and they would be the problem more than the kids. But thanks for your trolling concern.

You seem to want to defend FCB Escola as if your life depended on it... do let us know if you have an inside take... not just the parent of a kid that trains, but genuinely more involved. You seem to have a closed mind about how focus on training only and with players that aren't as talented is not suitable in this area, have you seen the training-only model work with players whose qualifications are that their parents can afford the price? I'm a troll, I get it, now do give us something of substance on the FCB Escola model that you have access to and the training-only model in the US pay-to-play market, specifically in the Wash DC hyper-competitive bubble.

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Anonymous wrote:My son loved playing soccer and eagerly joined his travel team st U9. He was placed on the GOLD team and the other teammates were ok, but simply didn't look interested in playing soccer, at all.

We lost just about every game, and we lost by large margins, relative to soccer. Regardless of our placement in the league and tournaments, I truly felt that development was important above all else. After my son continued to lose and lose, he started to be live he was a loser. We switched club's and found him a team that wasn't a juggernaut, but loved to compete. It took two more years to see the spark and eagerness in him prior to practices and get to g his uniform together for games.

Why would the club put together the team and release them to the wolves knowing they would get crushed, the only reason I can think of is money. For FUN ESCOLA, I would suggest they NOT join any of the competitions here because wins matter to the parents and to the kids, if they're not ready, don't let them to compete just to be canon fodder.

You really have no idea what you are talking about. The training is excellent and there are pockets of talent and more kids will come. Exactly what money did Barca earn by going to a tournament?

Not only is yours a trolling comment it might be among the absolute dumbest posts I’ve seen in some time. Congrats.

It's really not. There are clubs out there that claim "development over winning" and take just about anyone who shows up. It seems like a noble concept until the teams get shredded, game after game after game, and the kids lose interest in playing.

They will play in leagues next year at an appropriate level. There are lots of leagues with many levels of play. They will not get “shredded” and kids won’t quit the sport. Parents may overreact to early poor results and they would be the problem more than the kids. But thanks for your trolling concern.

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Anonymous wrote:My son loved playing soccer and eagerly joined his travel team st U9. He was placed on the GOLD team and the other teammates were ok, but simply didn't look interested in playing soccer, at all.

We lost just about every game, and we lost by large margins, relative to soccer. Regardless of our placement in the league and tournaments, I truly felt that development was important above all else. After my son continued to lose and lose, he started to be live he was a loser. We switched club's and found him a team that wasn't a juggernaut, but loved to compete. It took two more years to see the spark and eagerness in him prior to practices and get to g his uniform together for games.

Why would the club put together the team and release them to the wolves knowing they would get crushed, the only reason I can think of is money. For FUN ESCOLA, I would suggest they NOT join any of the competitions here because wins matter to the parents and to the kids, if they're not ready, don't let them to compete just to be canon fodder.

You really have no idea what you are talking about. The training is excellent and there are pockets of talent and more kids will come. Exactly what money did Barca earn by going to a tournament?

Not only is yours a trolling comment it might be among the absolute dumbest posts I’ve seen in some time. Congrats.

It's really not. There are clubs out there that claim "development over winning" and take just about anyone who shows up. It seems like a noble concept until the teams get shredded, game after game after game, and the kids lose interest in playing.

The U17s won their bracket.

Anonymous wrote:My son loved playing soccer and eagerly joined his travel team st U9. He was placed on the GOLD team and the other teammates were ok, but simply didn't look interested in playing soccer, at all.

We lost just about every game, and we lost by large margins, relative to soccer. Regardless of our placement in the league and tournaments, I truly felt that development was important above all else. After my son continued to lose and lose, he started to be live he was a loser. We switched club's and found him a team that wasn't a juggernaut, but loved to compete. It took two more years to see the spark and eagerness in him prior to practices and get to g his uniform together for games.

Why would the club put together the team and release them to the wolves knowing they would get crushed, the only reason I can think of is money. For FUN ESCOLA, I would suggest they NOT join any of the competitions here because wins matter to the parents and to the kids, if they're not ready, don't let them to compete just to be canon fodder.

You really have no idea what you are talking about. The training is excellent and there are pockets of talent and more kids will come. Exactly what money did Barca earn by going to a tournament?

Not only is yours a trolling comment it might be among the absolute dumbest posts I’ve seen in some time. Congrats.

My son loved playing soccer and eagerly joined his travel team st U9. He was placed on the GOLD team and the other teammates were ok, but simply didn't look interested in playing soccer, at all.

We lost just about every game, and we lost by large margins, relative to soccer. Regardless of our placement in the league and tournaments, I truly felt that development was important above all else. After my son continued to lose and lose, he started to be live he was a loser. We switched club's and found him a team that wasn't a juggernaut, but loved to compete. It took two more years to see the spark and eagerness in him prior to practices and get to g his uniform together for games.

Why would the club put together the team and release them to the wolves knowing they would get crushed, the only reason I can think of is money. For FUN ESCOLA, I would suggest they NOT join any of the competitions here because wins matter to the parents and to the kids, if they're not ready, don't let them to compete just to be canon fodder.

People can’t wait to bash this academy. I hear it from travel coaches all of the time. I seriously doubt that was an actual parent from the Escola since the type of parents here are the farthest thing from the type that would bash kids on social media. They are incredibly laid back, extremely knowledgeable in the sport (several D1 and a few former professionals in the mix) and genuine. If it is an actual parent, hopefully this douche will walk on.

We are not part of the 06/07 group) the age groups are banded and there are no set teams) but our age group has many former A team players from big clubs in the area and a few that left pre-DA Academies. They are from a wide landscape—from Southern VA, WVA, dc and MD. They are here for the really fantastic training from 12 UEFA coaches. It is better training than anything our 3 kids have received at any Club—yes the big ones with DA programs included—or the training I received at my youth travel Club on a National champion team/multiple state/regional title team.

The goal is individual development. We don’t give a rat’s ass about tournament or scrimmage results.

But—keep on trashing kids if it does something to make you feel like a man. Ridiculous. Is it any wonder why a parent would pull their kid from the travel landscape after spending a bit of time on this forum?

the players are probably not that great to begin with :-/