Barça Academy - Casa Grande, Arizona

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Gracias a HARVEST CUP ARIZONA POR LA INVITACIÓN DONDE EL EQUIPO DE VISALIA F.C CATEGORÍA ORO 48 AÑOS+ SE GANÓ EL CAMPEONATO NACIONAL, EXCELENTES CANCHAS, SERVICIOS... AGRADEZCO A LAS INSTITUCIONES DE BARCELONA POR FACILITARNOS SUS INSTALACIONES...

Koven Johnson

During my two years at Barca Residency Academy I have had the pleasure to share my life with teammates and staff that I now consider family. They have provided me with exceptional athletic opportunities (MLS Next competition, professional friendlies, connection to top colleges and professional teams) but also have set me up for a future filled with academic success through their partnership with ASU Prep. As a recent graduate, I leave my time here at Barca with nothing but satisfaction and gratitude for all the hard work the staff puts in to the development of every player. In the future, I hope to send my own children through this program as I know it will develop them into great humans and great players, and I encourage you to do so as well.

Koven Johnson - Class of 2024

Richard Chavez

I highly DO NOT recommend you send your soccer player son to reside at Barca Residency Academy. This place it a total joke and a legit ripoff. You can get so much better for your child elsewhere and actual real professional training at local clubs. Can you just imagine the amount of private lessons the $80,000 per year could afford? The Barca teams literally only train just as much as the local clubs at home train, the food is terrible, rooms are so small with three to a room, and the staff is untrained and coaches are not at all the former high level professional players that they advertised. There is nothing special taking place there to develop a player. Just taking a big group of players out to the field, then run the same utube drills a few times a week and playing the local area teams which they loose to. The boys are isolated, out in the desert, and have literally nothing on the weekends to even do. Know this, your child will NEVER stand a chance to advance to play on their MLS Next teams. All those players already were MLS Next players long before they arrived at Barca and Barca didn’t train them their local clubs did. The EA league teams are just there to pay for all the MLS Next players. Save all your hard earned money and don’t fund their pyramid scheme.

UPDATE:
Ms Gwen Brogley - Resident Life Director - I can write an honest review for my nephew and Godson. After all, he is my son and I am the one who dropped him off there to Barca Residency and I picked him up. I heard all about your program first hand from my son. I hope this is okay with you, that I can add a review of you as I have true firsthand knowledge of what my son experienced there. I see you don’t like the truth being posted and want to try to dimmish it because you want to keep the truth about what goes on there hidden. We can read your defensive response and all of your other fake 5 star reviews. Your response is the same canned answer your recruiters gave when they lied to us about what would happen there. But none of it ever happened in real life there; that’s the big problem. I see you only chose to respond to my bad review of you. It must have struck a few nerves. Everyone can read through all of this and tell what’s really going on there. The program is not at all good for the Elite Academy Level. This group just pays the bills for you to keep the place going for all of your MLS Next Players that you recruit from everywhere else, that you do not develop from within Elite Academy Level. Everyone can see the rankings where your EA levels lose to all the local clubs and are in last place there and for the majority of the whole seasons. Notice you ignored the points I made. What about of the other parents who wrote one star reviews that state their sons were “emotionally and physically harmed in your care and that this place should be shut down.” I notice you never responded to any of them. I also see that A lot of parents are liking the one-star reviews as they find a lot of truth to them all. I highly suggest parents do a lot of real parent reference checking before sending their son to Barca Residency.

Will Lewe

Do NOT send your son to live at Barca Residency. Read the real online reviews from actual parents whose children had the misfortune of being tricked into residing at Barca Residency. They have great marketing and recruiters who will promise you the moon and the stars for your player. Know this, your son will never receive what you paid for. No real training is happening that will improve your son. While they have a duty to do the service promised they will not. Your child will not be happy there and they will not advance. Have you read the reviews that say this place should be shut down? For years now, these same terrible and honest reviews have been written. Nothing has improved at Barca Residency. In fact, it has only gotten much worse. They are selling a name and a dream that will never be your child’s reality. All these unsuspecting new players every year get lied to by Barca Residency. Notice, all the players always leave early and never finish the year. Barca Residency is constantly brining in new replacement players all throughout the year. Notice that no one ever returns for a second year there because the parents all figure out the scam they are running. Do not be fooled by any of the weekend camp reviews. As other parents have written, talk to the parents who have had players actually reside at the Residency. The parents of resident players are not giving any positive reviews of Barca Residency. Your son will be harmed physically and mentally if he attends Barca Residency. This point has been written by numerous parents. Read the real reviews, not the fake ones that the staff puts out. About the staff, as another parent put it, the so called Directors that “run the place” are all remote and do not even go to the campus. They only show up to be at weekend recruitment camps to been seen by new unsuspecting parents. In reality, the resident life department is ran by a family and their underlings who never played soccer or any sport for that matter. The underlings, known as Resident Assistants, who are dating the coaches and go around and make silly petty complaints about kids so they can get them in trouble for service hours. It’s insane...the place is filled with drama. The Directors are even dating each other. The place is a real life soap opera. No real soccer, no real professionals and no real soccer academy. Your son will return home in far worse condition than he arrived. You can very easily do so much better for your son and your wallet. Another parent wrote that Barca Residency is running a pyramid scheme and I couldn’t agree more. We have now figured it out, our son was never professionally trained there, he got worse there and we were robbed of a lot of money. My whole family was used and abused by Barca Residency. Barca Residency does not deliver.

Thierno Bah

Amazing Trial ID camp i enjoyed it ready to start my journey for the team in the 2024/25 season.

Walid Kaakoush

My son attended Barca Residency Academy for three years! Every kid has a different path and journey in soccer. What I loved about having my son at Barca was that I saw the staff and coaches at the academy help each player build their own individual path. Along the way, they taught them lessons of commitment, kindness, professionalism, and selflessness.
In our three years, we saw multiple players commit to top level colleges and universities, and sign professional contracts at different levels. My son’s desire was to compete at the highest level and Barca Residency Academy provided him that opportunity and now he is living his dream as he just signed his first professional contract.
If you have a son that has the desire and you have questions about the pathway, I would highly recommend that you reach out to the staff and coaches.

Luke Andrew Zielinski

Where teammates become family. Truly encapsulated the best year of my life. Grateful for the incredible people, coaches, and staff that helped further my development and professional progress.

Diego Sanchez

I recently signed my first professional contract with C.F. Monterrey and none of this would be possible without the development of not only as a player but as a person at Barca. The staff have really Guided me and allowed me to really thrive and mature as a person making sure I was always okay, always felt at home, always made sure I never felt alone, Always making sure that I had the motivation to keep going. To the RA staff and momma Gwen. I cannot thank you enough for these last 4 years. Thank you. As a player, I cannot begin to describe the development I have undergone. For my first 3 years at Barca, I had started out as a player on the bench. Each year, I was able to work my way up to becoming a starter and obtaining tons of minutes. That perseverance wouldn't have been possible if I did not trust in god of course but also with the methodology and the knowledge that the coaches possess.
They took in a kid who had less than a year of organized soccer under his belt and have pushed him and allowed him to pursue his dream. To all the coaches that I have been able to encounter at Barca Academy. Thank you.