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    Is your daughter not getting enough playing time?

    Barca is in their third year and expanding their girls program. They are expanding rosters for 2004 through 2008 year teams. They have nice size rosters( most teams are maxing out at 15 girls), so there is plenty of playing time. As you know they also have the best coaching system your daughter will get. You will read all the posts here and wonder. The theme is, the girls love their team, get great coaching, but you put up with poor communications from the management ( although that may change as Barca is directly now running the program themselves).
    So if you are tired of paying top dollar to be on a B, C or D team at some other academy with a roster size of 22 and your daughter getting 5 or 10 minutes of playing time join Barca and Play Soccer!
    If she has basic skills and the passion, they will appreciate her and train her to be the best soccer player she can be. Don't wait or get sucked into another year of frustration in wasting your money.

    https://barcaacademy.fcbarcelona.com...barca-academy/

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    Nice try! The Barca girls program is a long way off from being of any significance. Mediocre teams that play in low level leagues.

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      #3
      so for 95% of the girls playing it is the perfect spot to grow, learn and play. Lets face it, the competition and nepotism on most ECNL teams is ridiculous, so if you are not the 1%er superstar, you ain't cracking into the team. So why not play on competitive teams in NPL or EDP and have fun?

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        #4
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        so for 95% of the girls playing it is the perfect spot to grow, learn and play. Lets face it, the competition and nepotism on most ECNL teams is ridiculous, so if you are not the 1%er superstar, you ain't cracking into the team. So why not play on competitive teams in NPL or EDP and have fun?
        Nice try again! Barca marketing working overtime. Playing on a crappy team in a low level league doesn't make you a better player.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Nice try again! Barca marketing working overtime. Playing on a crappy team in a low level league doesn't make you a better player.
          Nice try SUSA marketing working overtime. 95% of soccer is played at "low level" league like EDP or NPL ( which is where all their girls teams will be in the fall). If we listened to the marketing pitch from most academies who make you think you have a shot at their ECNL team or GA Team. The reality is 1 out of a 1000 girls can make the team.

          Play at a club that value your girls, gives them opportunity to learn and play. They also can have life experience like traveling to Barcelona with the team like they did a few months ago before covid. Life in soccer is more than shooting for the 1% who get a college scholarships. Its about learning to play and appreciate the game, plus being apart of a team.

          Just let them play and enjoy it.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            Nice try SUSA marketing working overtime. 95% of soccer is played at "low level" league like EDP or NPL ( which is where all their girls teams will be in the fall). If we listened to the marketing pitch from most academies who make you think you have a shot at their ECNL team or GA Team. The reality is 1 out of a 1000 girls can make the team.

            Play at a club that value your girls, gives them opportunity to learn and play. They also can have life experience like traveling to Barcelona with the team like they did a few months ago before covid. Life in soccer is more than shooting for the 1% who get a college scholarships. Its about learning to play and appreciate the game, plus being apart of a team.

            Just let them play and enjoy it.
            1 out of 1000? Have you seen some of the kids on these ELITE teams? if thats 1/1000 then i shudder to think of what player 999 and below looks like.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              1 out of 1000? Have you seen some of the kids on these ELITE teams? if thats 1/1000 then i shudder to think of what player 999 and below looks like.
              I think that unfortunately, most of the "elite" academies are selling the parents who can pay that their princess is the next Alex Morgan. They are not and should stop chasing the dream and just have fun.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                I think that unfortunately, most of the "elite" academies are selling the parents who can pay that their princess is the next Alex Morgan. They are not and should stop chasing the dream and just have fun.
                I think that is what the OP was trying to get at to get people to join their Barca. Just play and have fun. From watching on the sidelines the last few years, it is sadly lost on most parents who are ranting over every pass, foul, or missed call. They make the game miserable for their kids

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  Nice try again! Barca marketing working overtime. Playing on a crappy team in a low level league doesn't make you a better player.
                  Nor does sitting on the bench of a higher level team.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    Nor does sitting on the bench of a higher level team.
                    our daughters friend plays for Susa . She is on their 3rd team. They were disappointed when every "tough" game they had on the schedule 4 of their clubs ECNL 1st team members showed up and played the whole game while a lot of kids sat and only played 5 minutes ( because they already have a large roster of girls). That is just plain wrong.

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                      #11
                      It was our daughters first year with Barca. We had 14 girls on the roster and I thought it a perfect size. The girls played almost the whole game. The games where we had an issue they brought up a couple girls from the younger team to play with us. ( conversely our girls also occasionally played up a year). She loves her teammates and coaches. They play tight technical soccer. I would recommend them. Just if your an anal helicopter parent, you will have to chill and let it just go. They got the soccer thing, you do the parent thing. If you can do that, your daughter will love her team and playing.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        our daughters friend plays for Susa . She is on their 3rd team. They were disappointed when every "tough" game they had on the schedule 4 of their clubs ECNL 1st team members showed up and played the whole game while a lot of kids sat and only played 5 minutes ( because they already have a large roster of girls). That is just plain wrong.
                        Lol, what age group??? The ECNL teams and their 3rd teams are rarely even in the same state on game days and no ECNL players I know are heading over to the local NPL team game.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          our daughters friend plays for Susa . She is on their 3rd team. They were disappointed when every "tough" game they had on the schedule 4 of their clubs ECNL 1st team members showed up and played the whole game while a lot of kids sat and only played 5 minutes ( because they already have a large roster of girls). That is just plain wrong.
                          Cute story, but a completely fabricated lie. Good luck trying to convince the ego of an ECNL player's parent to let their kid go play for the 3rd team, let alone the egos of 4 ECNL player's parents. And not just once, EVERY time they had a tough game! You couldn't even get that to happen for the 2nd team, never mind the 3rd, lol. And supposedly for a 3rd team that wasn't even struggling for players-because "they already have a large roster for girls"???

                          Come on now, you gotta do better than that!

                          That being said, if my kid were on Susa's 3rd team, I'd probably check out other local cheaper options.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Cute story, but a completely fabricated lie. Good luck trying to convince the ego of an ECNL player's parent to let their kid go play for the 3rd team, let alone the egos of 4 ECNL player's parents. And not just once, EVERY time they had a tough game! You couldn't even get that to happen for the 2nd team, never mind the 3rd, lol. And supposedly for a 3rd team that wasn't even struggling for players-because "they already have a large roster for girls"???

                            Come on now, you gotta do better than that!

                            That being said, if my kid were on Susa's 3rd team, I'd probably check out other local cheaper options.
                            Not the OP, but a parent of an 07 daughter with SUSA. Ask the parents on the susa 2007 girls 4th team ( called Carolina on the NPL roster), You will be surprised to hear the answer was yes.
                            So before you rant anymore, ask them. They tell the 1st team girls it is extra play time, and our girls just have to sit there. In the end our team only one 1 game all season so we needed all the help ( in the end it didn't, since we still lost those games with them anyway). It was disgusting and the reason a fair amount of the teams parents have already bailed. Most are just going back to their local town teams.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              Not the OP, but a parent of an 07 daughter with SUSA. Ask the parents on the susa 2007 girls 4th team ( called Carolina on the NPL roster), You will be surprised to hear the answer was yes.
                              So before you rant anymore, ask them. They tell the 1st team girls it is extra play time, and our girls just have to sit there. In the end our team only one 1 game all season so we needed all the help ( in the end it didn't, since we still lost those games with them anyway). It was disgusting and the reason a fair amount of the teams parents have already bailed. Most are just going back to their local town teams.

                              Sounds like Barca has room on their rosters. And you are looking at a thread about more playing time. Hmmmm.

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