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    #16
    Originally posted by Guest View Post
    Hi all, looking for feedback about Cedar stars Academy in Monmouth New Jersey. Has anyone had experience with this club & their coaches?
    Coach Niko Stefanides is the coach of the team we are considering for soccer next year. Girls team. I’m told it’s very high level. How far do these teams travel? Are the coaches very good with young girls?
    Not perfect but the guy is beyond dedicated to his teams. Maybe it's strong desire to get results for mgmt but he dedicates alot of his personal time outside of what contract requires with extra games and tournaments. The guy lives and breathes this stuff , he isn't for everybody but you have to have respect for a man that takes alot of time out of his life to do extra for kids.

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      #17
      Originally posted by Guest View Post
      Hi all, looking for feedback about Cedar stars Academy in Monmouth New Jersey. Has anyone had experience with this club & their coaches?
      Coach Niko Stefanides is the coach of the team we are considering for soccer next year. Girls team. I’m told it’s very high level. How far do these teams travel? Are the coaches very good with young girls?
      You can do worse. He is tough, he can joystick coach at times but he's intense keeps kids on their toes during games. Communication about kid to parents is non existent. Think of it as your daughter playing college soccer, feedback is coach to daughter. If you need constant feedback coddling, stay away

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        #18
        A lot of screaming, being tough, but not a lot of developing

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          #19
          Originally posted by Guest View Post
          A lot of screaming, being tough, but not a lot of developing
          A bully. Dude hasn’t fielded a team @ CSA with a .500 record let alone a winning record. Toxic

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            #20
            Originally posted by Guest View Post

            A bully. Dude hasn’t fielded a team @ CSA with a .500 record let alone a winning record. Toxic
            He coached the 2012 girls are they are excellent He runs excellent trainings also.

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              #21
              Originally posted by Guest View Post
              A lot of screaming, being tough, but not a lot of developing
              No he won't develop your kid into anything special. I agree. Neither will pda. Kid has to develop herself, he'll put her against the best competition possible whether it be tournaments or scrimmages and give her the opportunity to develop vs the best

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                #22
                Originally posted by Guest View Post

                A bully. Dude hasn’t fielded a team @ CSA with a .500 record let alone a winning record. Toxic
                Coach Niko is an Awesome coach. All you have to do is look at all the players. He developed the best players in our area. Now those girls are being heavily recruited or have already ready committed to division 1 or 2 schools. Match Fit and PDA are not responsible for their development, in fact, Match Fit put them back in their development by their horrible training and bad coaching.

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                  #23
                  Originally posted by Guest View Post

                  No he won't develop your kid into anything special. I agree. Neither will pda. Kid has to develop herself, he'll put her against the best competition possible whether it be tournaments or scrimmages and give her the opportunity to develop vs the best
                  Unlike RT down the road who puts his teams in the ocean tournament and boast about winning it….. And RT is afraid to scrimmage other top teams.

                  Niko is fantastic. He’s tough. But will push your girl to be the best they can be.

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                    #24
                    Originally posted by Guest View Post
                    A lot of screaming, being tough, but not a lot of developing
                    Correct. Look at best pda player on 09. Think her coach is developing her or Alex Ramos? Wake up dude. Probably why you're so disgruntled. Probably dumped your kid at ns practice 3x a week and expected him to develop the next alex Morgan. Your expectations were all wrong. He won't do that it's team training

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                      #25
                      Best advice is stay away. He will make inappropriate comments about girls on the team.
                      he will play favorites.
                      He does bully kids & expect them to love him.
                      he will will not promote hard work over talent.
                      Zero feedback to kids not in the top 11.
                      He will give zilch playing time to run players off a team. Not based on effort or hard work.
                      in many years being with the club no player evaluation or feedback to parents.
                      If you care about your kid go elsewhere.

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                        #26
                        Originally posted by Guest View Post

                        They’ve gotten substantially worse without him
                        That’s a joke. He’s not missed , trust us !!

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                          #27
                          Originally posted by Guest View Post

                          Coach Niko is an Awesome coach. All you have to do is look at all the players. He developed the best players in our area. Now those girls are being heavily recruited or have already ready committed to division 1 or 2 schools. Match Fit and PDA are not responsible for their development, in fact, Match Fit put them back in their development by their horrible training and bad coaching.
                          If you are referring to the PA girls who had him as a coach at age 9/10 you are a whack job. They thanked him for the Ramos referral because NS begged.
                          Any heavily recruited player has MANY coaches, trainers, parents and most of all themselves to thank for doing well.
                          Niko is a glory hog and gossip king.
                          Just because he has been trying to stay under radar after being punched in the face doesn’t mean he’s changed as a person.
                          He’s a bully and toxic!

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                            #28
                            Originally posted by Guest View Post

                            Not perfect but the guy is beyond dedicated to his teams. Maybe it's strong desire to get results for mgmt but he dedicates alot of his personal time outside of what contract requires with extra games and tournaments. The guy lives and breathes this stuff , he isn't for everybody but you have to have respect for a man that takes alot of time out of his life to do extra for kids.
                            Sounds like he needs a significant other !!

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                              #29
                              Originally posted by Guest View Post

                              Unlike RT down the road who puts his teams in the ocean tournament and boast about winning it….. And RT is afraid to scrimmage other top teams.

                              Niko is fantastic. He’s tough. But will push your girl to be the best they can be.
                              I think you have it the other way around. NS has deep insecurity about RT and will go out of his way so his teams won’t play RTs.

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                                #30
                                Originally posted by Guest View Post

                                I think you have it the other way around. NS has deep insecurity about RT and will go out of his way so his teams won’t play RTs.
                                Maybe, who wants to lose to a huxster?

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