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SF Vikings Soccer Club
Background
The SF Vikings Soccer Club of Massachusetts is a premier youth soccer club located in the North Shore area of Massachusetts with players from numerous cities and towns of northeastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.
The SF Vikings Soccer Club was created in 2005 when the Force Athletic Club merged with the Soccer Union of the North Shore. The SF Vikings play in the Massachusetts Premier League (MAPLE). Players are selected at an open tryout each year with talent, skill, and commitment to club soccer the primary criteria for selection.
Club Composition
The club is composed of teams of boys and girls in each group from Under-11 through Under-18. SF Vikings also operates a U-10 development program for 9 and 10 year old boys and girls.
SF Vikings’ mission is to create a strong and enduring institution which will guide, promote, encourage and support the long term development and commitment of boys and girls. The club offers the opportunity for players train year round and to compete against the best players in the state, region and country.
Camps/Clinics
TBA
Tournaments
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Facilities
- Cherry Hill – Newburyport
- Emerson Center – Topsfield
- Endicott College
- Gordon College
- Governor’s Academy
- Klock Park
- McGrath Park – Salem
- Memorial Park – SalemPingree
- Masconomet Regional High School
- Salem State College – Harrington Building
- Shore Country Day School
- Strawberry Fields
- North Shore Tech High School
- Soccer Etc. – Beverly
- Topsfield Sports Arena
Website
- Website was down for a bit, now back up; needs some work so please be patient.
Leave your comments and ratings for SF Vikings SC below!
hate this club; coaches are obnoxious and terrible facilities.
The SF Vikings clearly have the best training and game facilities on the North Shore and some of the best in Massachusetts.
Coaches are professional, knowledgable and very easy to work with.
As a player for the sf Vikings I would love to inform all you haters that this is a great club. Adults can not judge the coaching style because the kids are the ones in training. I have grown so much as a player with the Vikings they have been great to me. The coaches are not like any others they train you with a different style that is very successful. The coaches are not mean but they get there point across. They care about you at sfvikings unlike any other club I have been too. The sfvikings have helped me meet new people and build great relationships with the other players on my team.
Website out of date
Coaches are disrespectful
Lousy facilities
Although not the biggest, I have always found the organization to be very professional. Coaches are knowledgeable and balance competitive achievement with technical and tactical knowledge and development of the game. My son really enjoys his teammates and competing at a very high level while also having a lot of fun. All in all, I would say the Vikings are a terrific organization and have given my son a wonderful soccer experience.
This club has been great for my three sons. The coaches are excellent and fun, the facilities are fine, don’t know what people are complaining about. The kids are friendly and work as a team. But most of all it’s the training that I find excellent. Great experience so far, great club.
Coach teaches kids well, but completely plays favorites. Practice fields are horrible. Web-site is useless.
Good point about playng the favorate as I heard that from someone else but I always figured it was from a disgruntled parent who just wanted the best for their little Viking!; website is just uselss
Head coach is an obnoxious and classless.
There are other coaches that are also pationate about winning,
but they do it by treating their kids with respect.
awesome club very fun great skills coaches need tiny bit more technique but great players
My son has had a great experience with the Vikings. The coaching is awesome they have made my son a better soccer player. Some of you make comments about fields.Clubs have to use town fields . Most town don’t want Clubs using town fields. My son has played on some bad fields at other clubs. The Viking do the best they can in keeping the cost down so every kid has a chance to play.
Director of Coaching, Alvi, most obnoxious person I have ever meet. My daughter had been asked by two coaches to come practice with a U 11 team. She had been to three practices and was loving it. Team Manager was wonderful and had explained the level of the team to my wife. He was aware that my daughter had tried out for the Vikings in the fall but we were not happy with the coaching and combined U10 & U 8 team that she was placed on. We decided not to play for that season and withdrew from the program. Now we go to attend the fourth practice and Alvi is coaching the U12 girls and the U11 are practicing with them. The team manager set my daughter up with her group and a pinnie and she begins to play. The coach asks to speak with me and informs me that my daughter is no longer welcome. She had her chance last fall and that by leaving then we damaged that team. He told me to take my daughter and go home. I had to call my daughter off the indoor field in front of all her friends and the parents that were present. I have been a coach for 30 years and never have I disrespected a child like that in front of other children. No matter what the problem was the child was never brought into the situation. My 10 year old daughter cried for an over an hour because she felt he kicked her out because of her skill level. As long as this man is part of the Vikings program I will never recommend this Team any of the youth soccer program that I am affiliated with.
Patrick
The whole story should be told here Patrick. Your daughter walked away from a U-10 girls team in the Fall and took some players with her. Those actions put a whole team in jeopardy and they had to scramble to find some additional players in order to keep that team together and finish out the season. That team went on to have a successful Fall season and the girls that stuck with it seemed to get a lot out of it. Your daughter is a U-10 player and shouldn’t have been training with the U-11′s anyway. The club has two U-10 teams and from what I understand both coaches at that age group are great with the kids. The Director of Coaching Alvi is in charge of the teams and works closely with the coaches in the placement of these kids. If she was supposed to be training with the U-11′s then you would have heard from Alvi about that. You can’t pick and choose the teams you want to have your kid play for. They have try-outs in the Summer and the kids are placed on specific teams after that. I have known Alvi for years and I have had two children come through the program and I couldn’t think of a better coach in the North Shore Area that I would want to teach my kids the sport of soccer. I have a hard time imagining he would go out of his way to embarrass a 10 year old girl and I am guessing you are blowing this whole thing out of proportion because things didn’t go the way you wanted them to. I would suggest reaching out to him like an adult instead of putting these rants up on a soccer board. If you had such a bad experience in the Fall then why come back in the Spring? You also have an older daughter that plays for Soren and from what I understand she loves it and has had a great experience. If your younger daughter still wants to be a part of this program then have her come back to try-outs over the Summer and be done with it. You have plenty of other options in the area with Aztec and Northshore United. If you feel this is the wrong club for her then move on. If not then I would suggest picking up the phone and having a conversation with Alvi. By putting up these rants you are putting your daughter into an even more difficult situation. Think of her before you think of putting up your next post.
Dear Anonymous,
First and foremost don’t be so afraid to leave your name. I have no problem explaining the WHOLE STORY. Yes my daughter walked away from the u-10 team last Fall. We walked away because the u-10 program was run horribly. Caitlynn was asked by a u-10 coach to be on his team in May of 2012. We were told she did not even need to try out. My wife and I did not like this idea we felt she should tryout just like everyone else. That coach agreed and said he would put us on his team either way. Well tryout came and went and Caitlynn ended up on a different u-10 team. A team that only had 6 U-10 girls and 1 U-8 girls. We were told to be patient. Alvi would work it all out. So we waited. All practices in August were with 7 girls and our first official practice in Sept. had, you guessed it, 7 girls. Now remember, we were supposed to go to the other U -10 team that had 11 girls on it. All of which where the correct age group. But it was not aloud because they wanted to make another team. Probably had nothing to do with money though. So again we were told Alvi will work it out. So here comes our first game. What did Alvi do. He brought up 4 more U-8 girls. No offense to these girls, they played to the best of their ability. They were lost on the soccer field. At half time we were losing 6 – 0 and that is only cause the other team stopped scoring. The best part was when the coach called over our team manager and said he had to leave. That is right. With no info or notice to the parents. The coach packed his bag and left the game. The parents and the girls had no clue about what was happening. So at this point my wife and I felt that the $1500.00 we were spending was not working out. I did call Alvi and talked to him like an Adult, as you say I should, and said Thank you but I don’t think this is going to work for us this year. and that was the end of it. As to others leaving at the same time, I had no say in that. If they left it was of there own free will. Maybe they felf their $1500.00 was better spent on something else.
As to my older daughter still playing, this should be a perfect example that we held no ill will. She loves her Coach, Soren and her teammates. And if it was not for her love for the team and Coach I would have pulled her off The Vikings last month. If you really read my comment above you would have noticed that we did not search out the U -11 Team. Caitlynn was asked to come and practice with them by Rene and their Coach Jose. We practiced with them for four practices before Roller Palace. We had a conversation with their Team Manager John and told him of our Fall season experience. They all said it was not a problem. The Fall program was a disaster. Alvi was in charge of that and he was pissed that I called him out on that. We had no problems with the Vikings walking away in the Fall. Sometimes things just don’t work out. She was only 10. Our thoughts were she could tryout next year. Alvi stopped the practice and kick my daughter off the floor in front of all her friends. You can stick up for him all you want but something tells me if this happen to you and your daughter you would be seeing RED just like me. He may have all the soccer knowledge in the world but his people skills Suck and I will not recommend this program to anyone. How is that for a rant.
Good for you Patrick, this man’s behavior is reprehensible, he is a bully of the worst form! Alvi – you are an adult (i use that term loosely in relation to this man) and what you did to the spirit of someone who is ONLY 10 years old, passionate about soccer and VERY important to me, is bordering on abusive as far as I am concerned. How could you possibly imagine that it is ok to publicly humiliate a 10 year old???? You are ignorant and you can be sure that I will encourage EVERYONE I know to avoid your league and additionally to submit as many formal letters of complaint to Bill Walker, Chairman of the MAPLE Commission & disciplinary committee. bwalker@intersc.com
You made a serious error in judgement and trust me you have not heard the last of it!
Thats so mean and 10 WOW HOW COULD ANYONE do that i know my kid would think that she suck at soccer forever.Because of that and why he should be letting her go on viking becaues she was U10 but had U8 girls on her team .He’ll be so sad beause she proubly is a great sooccer player un like him.
A similar thing happened to me in u12 when I was called out by my coach at Vikings and insulted in front of my team mates who were like family to me it was heart breaking to be humiliated by some one I looked up to and respected. After the event happened my coach wouldn’t address it or apologize(coach is Rene Novoa) I believe a 12 year old shouldn’t be treated this way.
I would not recommend this club to anyone. The coaches are horrible, all they do is yell at my child I don’t pay this money to see my child cry and not play in the games she feels worthless and wanted to leave. I don’t see why there has to be such disrespect to the player.