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We have called the offices 3 times over the course of the summer. Answer is always "The club wide welcome email will be out in a few weeks" Then the next week its "The coach you spoke to no longer works here"Originally posted by Guest View Post
Honestly, how much longer can you be this unethical and keep parents in the dark? There's no problem with the tuition payment coming out on the 15th of every month since March,Comment
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Put a hold on your credit card until you get the answers you seekOriginally posted by Guest View PostComment
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Commitments even at lower clubs are wrapped up early June, many early May. Families don't have many choices if it's a better team. What you can do is delay paying more than the deposit as long as possibleOriginally posted by Guest View Post
Thr "no services rendered " angle is an interesting one. But a struggling club is not going to refund $ unless you take them to small claims courtComment
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Haha yeah good luck they keep parents always in the dark .Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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FC Copa is the worst. Just refund every kid in the club!Comment
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Roberto biggest fraud in the sport. Can only win 3rd tier championships, coaches have gone into bigger and better. Says a lot when you keep losing quality coach after coach. Don’t even get me started on the players jumping ship every season!Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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Let’s get you started with players jumping ship . I know Roberto is a fraud . But if you ever Talked to MC he is a straight liar and a fraud himselfOriginally posted by Guest View PostComment
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They lost more coaches ? Like who? We tried this club for three years and had 3 coaches in the three yearsOriginally posted by Guest View PostComment
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A real shame, that Club could be something if they invested in getting their own facility. That tin can Roberto bought is a joke, can’t imagine that thing is bigger than a 7v7 field. Almost 20 years in a business and don’t have a place of your own.Comment
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Clubs are losing coaches at this point for many reasons:
1. Parents sometimes overstep and complain about things such as playing time, training (guilty myself), schedule, etc. They coach from the sidelines and are bringing their kids to many outside trainers/clubs. Parents have chased referees away and are now turning on the coaches
2. Youth soccer is so watered down that the level has dropped here and some coaches only want to coach certain levels.
3. The money isn’t as great unless you go for hours upon hours to get new certifications and older coaches who have A licenses from 50 years ago but can’t move make more
4. Kids are spoiled these days and feel they are entitled at times
5. Coaches are being bad mouthed or abused on social media/public forums such as this one with being called out by name. Even if it is one parent doing it.
6. Coaches spend many extra hours that they don’t get paid for such as emailing, creating season plans, going for further licensing, answering phone calls, watching film, scouting, recruiting, taking extra courses each year for carding, managing game day forms/money, planning tournaments and traveling
7. Coaches are now becoming robots. US Soccer is a business and they don’t let the coaches be themselves. They have to perform in their evaluations, be video taped, have unexpected evaluations from others and sometimes they may even feel that they know more than the observer. They also have coached right now at the national team level who have been out there due to politics, favoritism or have high licenses from years ago when it was easy. They are being told to imitate our senior teams who in the end struggle. Former pro players are leading US Soccer when they may have been good players but it doesn’t make them a strong coach.
In the end you can’t make a career coaching because of the system becoming a business and clubs charge $3-4k to play. Coaches are asked to do way more than they are asked and those making a descent salary can’t do anything else. They don’t get benefits and if they do, they aren’t good. Even D1 coaches don’t make good money unless they are Duke or UNC. Why would people want to be a coach today facing all of this is beyond me. On the other hand, there are some really good coaches out there who do it for the love of the game and the kids they work with. Hopefully the US system doesn’t scare those types of people away.
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The above post 100%. Nearly all the better coaches my three kids have had over the years either moved into the college track, pro track or other careers. And by better I don't just mean as soccer coaches but those that cared about kids and put in the extra effort. How long can you keep that up while dealing with poor pay, poor treatment, weekends away from their own families etc? At the higher levels there's some good coaches for soccer but they're not often attached to their teams. It's all business and that's fine. Older kids should be treated differently. Only one great one is still at it but he started his own club which by all accounts is doing well with younger players, teaching good fundamentals. There's not enough of that.Comment
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