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Until the parents and players see what’s going on behind the scenes and then leave. The MfA model may attract the highly motivated players but you also see them leaving. What remains at the older ages is not the best players in fact most of the best players leave. -
Winning lol it’s all a scam a marketing tool winning it sellsOriginally posted by Guest View PostComment
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it’s funny they don’t tell you to stay with your town team when they call you 6,000 times to recruit you. The bs start at that point and never stopsComment
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Someone who used to coach at MFA told me that all these clubs are the same. There is no pathway from one branch to another. They lie to the parents and kids. And it’s all a scam.Comment
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I am not part of mfa, never have been, simply for what I read. But you parents all pay for it, you all go there because your so desperate for your kid to have a patch on their sleeve.Originally posted by Guest View Post
everywhere you look on the internet it tells you not to go to mfa, bad coaches, steal money, bullying, scandals, poor facilities, no reinvestment, hazing and bad coaching you name it it’s been shared on the internet or written on here. Yet you all still desperately flock in droves,then come on here and cry they done all the things everyone said they would do. It’s like eating at a place with a 1 star review and crying you got food poisoning, you were well warned. At some point mfa aren’t the problem the idiots that constantly give them business are the problem.
why would mfa change anything when all you idiots fill all their teams not just with 18 but 22+ players. Their model will be, there is at least 40 really stupid desperate parents per age group in NJ so we will always be okay. Why would they ever need to or want to try harder.Comment
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Copa tells the parents the same **** no different mind set in all these clubsOriginally posted by Guest View Post
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Here’s how it goes for those wondering how parents keep falling for this. You join MFA when your kid is young because you think good results means they are playing great soccer (and they do an excellent job of recruiting). Maybe that MFA team was playing great soccer at one point, but as talent consolidates and their competition improves, they will resort to bad soccer to win. The win at all costs mentality may be fine for some kids/families but lots of kids will lose their confidence in this environment. Nothing matters before 14/15 so do what’s right by your kid right now, put them in a place where they thrive. If they want to continue developing, they do need to face high level players but there are a lots of ways to do that.
BTW, I think all high level clubs act similarly, the biggest difference is how much MFA emphasizes winning at younger ages. Also, their retention is TERRIBLEComment
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People are so full of it with some disillusioned ones sounding unnecessary alarm bells to make themselves feel relevant. What exactly is the MFA brouhaha all about? Even professional players leave their club for another without the world coming to an end. Several players have left PDA Blue team yet the club is doing well. Change is the only constant in life - nobody should lose sleep over any youth player leaving or joining a club.
I just checked ECNL and MFA is doing fabulously well for a relatively new club. In North Atlantic Standings and MFA 2011 is 3rd, MFA 2012 is 2nd, and MFA 2013 is 2nd.
In ECRL North Atlantic Standings MFA 2012 is 1st, and MFA 2011 is 8th. In ECRL NorthEast Standings and MFA 2011 Shore and Mercer are 1st and 3rd, MFA 2012 Mercer and Shore are 1st and 4th, while MFA 2013 Shore and Mercer are 5th and 6th respectively.
Perhaps all these negative comments are coming from toxic people jealous of MFA’s success as a club. The dubious “give a dog a bad name to hang it” strategy. I’m happy for clubs like MFA, PDA, FA, etc who continue to deliver winning results no matter the amount of nefarious propaganda peddled on social media against them. Keep up the good job.Comment
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I assumed this was a 2013 parent at first. You drew to hex and lost to Penn fusion and now there’s a desire to go? You’ve beaten everyone else lol.Comment
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Here comes the MFA defense. At what point are all the negative reviews and comments from consumers going to spur some type of change within the organization. You realize that there are thousands of complaints? Let me guess they are all propaganda no issues at all to address? Majority of people see the problems, the club is aware and simply doesnt give a crap. That’s the issue. The only way it will change is when parents stop sending their hard earned dollars to an organization who doesn’t care about doing the right thing for the children they are supposed to be developing.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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It’s not about wins and losses you are missing the point. Parents of players with high ambitions care less about the wins and losses it’s how the kids are learning soccer and being treated at these ages.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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Parents who care about wins and losses so much that they are willing to sacrifice their children’s player development are the type of parents and players that MFA will retain. They will eventually replace said players with players who parents weren’t focused on wins and losses but instead development. At some point players have to be able to play real soccer to advance to the next level so they can do commitment social media marketing to continue to sell the brand. If the coach is playing **** soccer and your kids not developing as a result do you think magically one day they will play d1 soccer? The reality is they will likely be replaced somewhere down the road by a player who’s been properly developed and trained to play in a proper manner.Comment
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