FCBEscola Soccer School Canada

Barca Academy Edmonton and the parent company/co-organizer BCN Sports Services Canada Inc., bilked my family out of over $500.We had a couple of positive reviews from parents and players who regularly attend Barca Academy Edmonton, and decided to try a small commitment to see if our son enjoyed it.We registered our son on March, 3, 2020 for the Edmonton March Break Soccer Camp to take place Mar.23-27, 2020 at the Karl Weidle Soccer Centre in Edmonton. On March 13, 2020 BCN Sports Services Canada, on behalf of Barca Academy Edmonton via email, cancelled the camp due to the uncertain conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a prudent move. The notice stated that credit would be given for summer camps in Spruce Grove or the 2021 March Break camp. Neither of these options worked for us, so as stated in the player agreement, we requested the option of a refund.Unfortunately , the management of BCN Sports Services Canada decided to ignore the Player Agreement acknolwdeged at the time of registration and refused refunds to participants. Despite repeated requests with the Project Director, Edgar Chandre, our refund was denied.The terms agreed to stated: If the FCB Soccer Camp is cancelled

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This camp is not for most kids. All they did was drills during their camp, no games. And my son LOVES soccer, but he did not enjoy this. I gave 2 stars because my son was sick and so we couldn’t attend two days of camp, and they wouldn’t refund me. What summer camp doesn’t refund if you can’t make it??

Worst experience of all time. These guys charge you $6k a year and don't even do any fitness and conditioning training. They only make you do passing and posession drills and never make you focus on your dribbling or your ball control. Most of their players go to private training sessions for fitness, dribbling, and ball control cause they never do it here. Most of the players are very rude, arrogant and full of themselves and a lot of bullying also occurs in the club but the coaches don't do anything about it even if you tell them to. All the good coaches left this team because they knew how flawed the system for this club was. My team won the league and they received their medals in the summer when I was gone on vacation and the technical director told me that he would give it to me, but he never did. Now I play at a different club and I have yet to received my medal. Last year the 05 team had to play without a coach and they gave us a plain red nike jersey to wear for the whole season. You also have to pay $150 to enter the national tournament even if you're an existing club member and you only get to play an average of 2, 25 minute games in one day. They make the camp families pay money to visit from far away and they make newly formed teams using the kids from the camps and they play the high performance teams, so obviously a team that has been playing with each other for a year beat a team that was formed an hour ago. This club just fills you up with high hopes when you first join because it has parents thinking that their kid is gonna end up playing on Barcelona. They say they have connections from Barcelona but not a single player has even made it there and they tell you this so that you can join the club to get scammed. I'll say this one last time that, THIS CLUB IS A CASHGRAB FOR THE COACHES.

The worst academy in the world.