Colo Colo Soccer Academy USA

★★★★★ilan mizrachi

To the colo Colo organization, I extend my best wishes and express my gratitude for your organization and your warm and professional attitude towards our children. May God continue to give you the strength and energy to guide them towards success and prosperity. Thank you so much to all our coaches who give their all for our children. You are an exemplary example... I wish a Blessings and success on our journey to becoming a unique professional and family organization... 🙏 Let’s go Colo Colo

★★★★★Amber Costello

My son started in September with no experience at all, he has improved so much in just a month or so! Coach Lolo is so very helpful with any & all questions I have as a parent. He suggested the developmental league will teach my son the basics; my son went from only kicking the ball full force every kick to knowing how to handle the ball and work as a team! The scrimmages look like an actual game because every kid on the team has improved so much!! Coach Kevin was so great when we had him, now we have Coach Luis. Whom is simply incredible!! He has such skills, as well as patience. He truly cares about helping each one of the kids learn and do their best! He remembers what might be their strength or needs more work to help each of them. He praises them (which is such a rare trait to find in a coach for boys) I can see my son light up when Coach does it. Colo is the absolute best league in Boca Raton area!

★★★★★Angel Todorov

My son has been playing for Colo-Colo since 2022. He started from the developmental program and quickly was prepared for the competitive team. Nothing but huge appreciation to all the coaches for their serious approach. The football cultural is definitely there. My son practices in Europe over the summer and he gets compliments from coaches there for the way he has been trained .

★★★★★Sacha Ramon

What a season it has been! We finished as champions for the 2024 season today! Our son has excelled this season under Coach Benjamin Munoz like never before. He is patient, caring and always open to speak of all things. We have faced challenges as all sports do especially at the competitive level. We are parents that travel, plan, pack and cheer on the sidelines no matter what. Coach Ben supports us as parents but remains professional and with a winning mentality. We stay and support this academy because of him.

★George Navarro

I typically don’t write reviews, but I fell compelled to blow the whistle and to share my experience as well as my son's experience with this program. This review concerns the Colo Colo 2014 U11 "Elite" program for which my 10 year old son played for and I sponsored up until November 3, 2024 when his coach recommended that I should remove my son. Before I get into the specific events I want to share that my son is a really good natured kid, he's respectful, trains his little heart out, and never complains. Even after all the outside training and positive reinforcement, we've watched my son's confidence and self image slowly decline while being with this program. For the past few months I noticed that the coaches appeared to work in concert to stifle my sons and his teammates progress and the events that took place on November 3rd enforced the belief that my son was being targeted. The last straw came on November 3, 2024 when the head of the program, Lolo, made what appears a shocking and unprofessional move by singling out and threatening my 10-year-old son during the middle of a game. During the half, the coach, Benji, waved to my son to go talk to Lolo and an unknown coach away from the team. My son appeared to be nervous while talking to them. My son relayed to me that Lolo scolded him and told him that he better start passing the ball or he would take away his playing time or bench him. The above was noticed by all on the sidelines and stirred a concern not only with my wife and I, but also with some of the parents that were watching. This is not the first time my son gets singled out and I believe they were intentionally targeting my son in order to get him dismissed or to get us as parents to act in order to secure a dismissal because there is no reason to go after a solid 10 year old kid the ENTIRE game when his teammates are more guilty of the offenses being thrown on my son. As if that wasn’t bad enough, my son was immediately removed from the game by the team’s coach, Benji, after scoring and celebrating a goal, you can see in the video attached that immediately after my son's goal the coach signals to the referee to change a player; which was my son . Benji later claimed that my son’s celebration was "disrespectful" to him and that he was offended. Let’s stop and think about that—an adult, a 40-year-old man, feeling personally offended by a 10-year-old’s excitement after scoring. For the remainder of the game my son was sitting on the bench with a rejected look on his face. It's absurd, and it’s clear that the coaching here appears to be more about ego than fostering a positive environment for kids. The events above were also witnessed by my son's private coach, and he advised that he was going to write a complaint to the FYSA and that we should do the same. The private coach is aware of the majority of incidents that my son has experienced and therefore was extremely upset at what he witnessed during that game. Outside of the events of November 3, the coach for this team, Benji, routinely engages in calling the kids names during practice and engaging in conduct not conducive to fostering a positive experience for the kids. The coach seems easily triggered which sets a bad example for the young athletes. The training regimen also appears to be elementary and the kids lack the skills of other "elite" teams which in turn hurts the confidence of the kids and parents because they're left wondering why other programs are developing faster than them. Overall, this program has completely drained my son’s confidence and has left me and his mom emotionally drained and hurt. If you want your child to grow as a player, to develop their decision-making skills, and to enjoy the game, I believe that you should not send them to Colo Colo. This program appears to do the exact opposite—suppressing creativity, stifling self-expression, and punishing kids for showing potential. I believe that this program is not designed to nurture talent, but to make coaches feel powerful at the expense of young players. Thank you