Barça Residency Academy USA

"My son had a wonderful experience, highly recommend, soccer became a passion for my son since he got in the Tryouts, he will try again and hopefully this time he get better result , he will love to be part of the Barca Family ❤️"

"After paying cash $77500 and $1000 deposit (never refundable) for them to develop my son as a person and as an athlete, they did all the opposite. The place is detrimental for athletes and families, specially for the U14, U15 and U16 since they don’t count with credentials to play higher level brackets. My son went from playing Elite Academy in Los Angeles to play Silver brackets in Arizona and now they are selling EA which is really bad too and that was never adverted from Barca to all the families/victims. Their business is based on their Pre Academies to fund their MLS Next teams. PLEASE DO NOT JOIN THIS PLACE BUT FOR MLS NEXT. The food is terrible, the athletes live in very dirty rooms (based on what you pay they accommodate three athletes in their very small rooms) since their cleaning service does not exist.The training program is extremely poor and there is no connection with La Macia in Spain. They provide to the athletes three very poor sessions a week. The premises are unsafe with no security. Off the field the fun activities don’t exist. The place has a great marketing but living in there can be torture for athletes and families. Lastly, I know you will try but understand that you are going to leave and let me tell that they won’t return your money, not even the deposit. DONT PAY ALL IN ONE AND BE PREPARE TO HIRE AN ATTORNEY."

"We have felt like this has been an amazing experience for our son. The group at Barca has been great to work with for the last 3 years."

"My son participated in the winter camp. The training is amazing! He was a commuter. They are on campus all day and everything is taken care of, from their uniforms to food to training and so on! At the beginning of the camp kids are placed on teams after coaches evaluate. My husband and I both saw a significant difference between the first day to the end of the camp! The kids were moving the ball so fast and the coaches were in tune to the kid’s strengths and what position they should play. That was impressive because the coaches knew where to put the kids in less than a few days. Kids were from all over North America-Canada, Mexico, US (Florida, Arkansas, Idaho etc) Food was ok, as stated by my son. They need more variety. For example, they have juice and water for breakfast but lunch and dinner it’s just water. I would definitely recommend this camp if you’re interested in watching your son improve with passing quickly! Awesome camp! We plan on sending him again next year!"

"Will you send your son/daughter to a place where you live things like the following and also you have to pay $78500 Copy of an email from the responsible of supervising the athletes to me. This person don't live there and handle everything remotely. "I personally spoke to "your son" twice during the live incident. As you can imagine the rumors have become quite imaginative. "The saw people that does not belong to the program with guns in the premises". There was a threat of harm texted to one of our students in retaliation for that student bullying to another student (girl) that are commuters from the area. We take all reports extremely serious. We immediately contacted the authorities to investigate the matter and made sure that all of the students were safe in their rooms while we took the time to get more information. We are working with the authorities to make certain that this issue is resolved. We have reiterated to our academy as a whole that they are safe to resume normal operations this morning. This is the message sent to all of our students last night: “Boys, I have spoken to quite a few of you that are upset or scared due to the actions we had to take in order to account for you all this evening until we got more information. *There are a lot of rumors that are circulating and I would like to put them to rest.*"