Did not try the academy itself, but signed up for the tournament. There was a tournament for 4-6 years old kids. The tournament had 4 teams. First was a round robin group stage. Then they played knockout, the results from the group stage was not accounted in the final result. So what matters was what the results of the last two matches. This is fine, they are kids and everyone is having fun. The issue is that when the tournament was over they called everyone for the trophy. They gave trophies to the first three teams ( out of 4 ) not participation trophy or any kind words were offered to the 4th team. Now we are talking about 4-6 years old kids. I tried to talk to multiple organizers, they were all astonished that I am asking for participation trophy as if they have never dealt with kids this young before. The said this will teach them about competition. But there are two problems, kids this age will not fully understand that. 2nd this is not a real competition since they only awarded based on the last two matches.
So I am not sure how am I supposed to explain to my crying son why his effort was not acknowledged despite winning most of the first 4 matches and the team that came last won the gold medal because the 1st 4 matches were not counted. Not sure what lesson they are trying to teach them. I don't know how much they know about soccer but pretty sure they don't care about child psychology. read more