Been with the program for 12 years. Have seen a lot of development with my first daughter. I am now…read moregoing through all of it again with my second one. Glad to know what I do now much easier. Highly recommend the palm bay program. It can work for all ages,sexes, and levels of play.

Before I write this review, I want to put this in perspective, my son was at this academy for two…read moreyears. He was on the top team of 2013 group what they called PRE-MLS-1. My review is therefore very comprehensive and fair which can be a good references for families want to join this academy. Ideasports academy is a stranged academy. Good aspect: Ideasports SA contracted with Disney to rent their facility. This facility is amazing and well taken care of. Soccer level for the top teams is fairly competitive in Florida areas. The number of Coach for the top teams (Pre-MLS) is acceptable. Bad aspect: The communication and management: is extremely terrible. The contract is costly and not clear, the league and tournament fees are not dependent on number of players in the team. Disney filed very strict contract in which you are responsible for many terms. Once you signed the contract, they locked you up. They do not release your kids to play for other teams if you do not pay up front full year tuition fee specifically with the leagues managed by Gotsport system. You must be very careful when you decided to sign the contract with them. Do not believe in the tryout as the actual team may be different from the ones your kids tried it out. In particular, you must be careful when your kids younger than 12 years old, in particular at 11 year old. The reason is from the fact that only one top team called pre-MLS-1 can participate in Florida Academy League which is the top and well organized league in Florida for this age. Team 2 in the pre-MLS program do not have a similar competitive level league. Many parents were disappointed and felt unfair for their kids with this management style. Miserably, they do not communicate with parents who are paying the service for their kids. Your kids maybe happy if you are in the top team or favored by the Coach. Coaches are favoring the kids who were staying there long, probably when this academy was established. It can be understandable as these families help academy to run the business. However, when soccer level and discipline are not the most important criteria for defining the team that may heart your feeling about the unfairness. Also, many parents sending the kids to soccer with the hope they can learn more than soccer (discipline, friendship, health, adaptation, etc.), you may not be happy with what you see in the practice everyday. Personally attack kid: I took my son out of this academy due to multiple times of attacking my kid every time I expressed my concern or suggestion to make this academy better. This is nonacceptable in particular in US. Lastly, the tuition fee is different case by case. Some kids (like us) pay double than other kids even in the same program. Therefore, you should be careful to negotiate to reduce cost before signing the contract. I will continue updating... Overall, this academy is not for every family. This is very strange and biased academy. Also, no guarantee that your kids will become professional or college players after the training courses. Trust is the most important and standard for the kid development. But you will not find the trust at this academy. In particular, you must be careful with the director coach if you do not want to get tricked like me. From perspective of parents who love soccer and kids. Thank you,

IdeaSport is simply the best Soccer Academy in Central Florida…read more Safe & secure premises, excellent training and professional coaches. Don't hesitate to try it out, kids aged 5-18! I highly recommend it!

Very poor communication. You are given no information about your child's coach or their team. There…read moreis absolutely ZERO way to contact them. You are not given a number or email and if you fill out their message page on the website no one will get back to you. I've done that 3 times over the past month. We signed up for this league solely because they use pineapple Park for their games. Every single game, 4 I believe at this point I've been relocated out to Palm city. In the beginning, their website said games and practices were at 6:30. Their coach was told games and practices started at six so he showed up to the field at six. Nobody was there then he said the president told him it started at 6:15 however, parents were told it started at 6:30. It is clear communication is extremely unorganized even from within. Their uniforms were not distributed until the end of the second game. I have never had that happen with any other league. We have been part of other sorting leagues and we will not be returning as I have heard this is an issue across the board for all parents and has been for years. It is a shame.

Our older boys were with Martin United in 2018/2019 and we liked it enough, initially. There was no…read morereal communication with the parents, which was tolerable initially and we didn't really care. But now that we have experienced other soccer clubs, I have realized how purposeful Martin United is in mistreating/disregarding parents. We moved our boys at the end of the 2019 season to another soccer club just to give them a different experience. (Geeat decision by the way!) There was no hard feelings on our part, just wanted to explore with our kids just as any parent would do. I had no idea that the president of the club, Rich Cerber, would harbor ill feelings toward us for moving, as it is petty and unprofessional coming from a leader in the organization. I inquired for my youngest son to join rec in 2020, and Rich said it was too late. That seemed suspicious to me since he had let me register my older boys late before. But I thought, ok maybe next year. Now in 2021, I emailed and he replied saying that i should just have my son join the other soccer club with my older boys as it would be "easier for everyone". WOW, so taken aback by his lack of professionalism and maturity. I like to give people benefit of the doubt, but this man is childish and proven so even after all these years. It makes me wonder how he can continue to still hold this position and wonder how mistreated his staff/coaches are. Not a good human is all I have to say, but in the end, you will always get yours.

Everything went well! Everyone is so nice and it's a beautiful place and the soccer fields are…read moregreat!