Brad Friedel's Proposed Soccer Academy [Archive]

ClevelandMark

02 Apr 2006, 12:55 PM

Would it be great if he decided to move his international soccer academy from Amherst in Lorain County to a location that adjoins the proposed soccer stadium/retail center in Northern Summity County?

Not sure if this academy is still in the works or what is happening.

westendlips

03 Apr 2006, 09:24 AM

It is still in the works. Groundbreaking this month,according to the website. He is from Bay Village. No way he wants to drive to Macedonia for work. West siders have not even heard of Macedonia. His Lorain location will be a short drive from Bay. I am looking forward to him between the pipes for Cleveland MLS.
Check it out: http://premiersocceracademies.com/about.htm

ClevelandMark

03 Apr 2006, 11:16 AM

It is still in the works. Groundbreaking this month,according to the website. He is from Bay Village. No way he wants to drive to Macedonia for work. West siders have not even heard of Macedonia. His Lorain location will be a short drive from Bay. I am looking forward to him between the pipes for Cleveland MLS.
Check it out: http://premiersocceracademies.com/about.htm

Please, I lived in DC for five years . . . Cleveland Traffic is a cake walk by comparison. I think its more important for these two facilities to play off each other's strengths than anything else.

ClevelandFC

03 Apr 2006, 11:24 AM

Please, I lived in DC for five years . . . Cleveland Traffic is a cake walk by comparison. I think its more important for these two facilities to play off each other's strengths than anything else.
I think he's building a home in either Avon or Avon Lake (likely the former). That puts him even closer to his Lorain City/Amherst academy.

I'm about 10 minutes from the academy. I'll make a point to drive over there occasionally and report on any bulldozer activity.

ClevelandMark

04 Apr 2006, 08:17 AM

Per the web site, the current camp has a Stow address . . . Now, if Brad is willing to drive to Stow to pick up his mail, maybe he can drop by Macedonia.

Big-Time Crew Fan

04 Apr 2006, 10:26 AM

Per the web site, the current camp has a Stow address . . . Now, if Brad is willing to drive to Stow to pick up his mail, maybe he can drop by Macedonia.
That's quite a drive from Blackburn!
:)

paladius

06 Apr 2006, 12:35 AM

I think he's building a home in either Avon or Avon Lake (likely the former). That puts him even closer to his Lorain City/Amherst academy.

I'm about 10 minutes from the academy. I'll make a point to drive over there occasionally and report on any bulldozer activity.
So does this mean he's going to ditch the phony British accent once and for all?

ClevelandMark

10 Apr 2006, 02:32 PM

So does this mean he's going to ditch the phony British accent once and for all?

Maybe he is dating Madonna:confused:

HectorM

10 Apr 2006, 05:05 PM

It's pretty idiotic to call it a "proposed" soccer academy when they broke ground two weeks ago.

Also because it's been going on for two or three years now and all they're doing is adding a residential program. You could have attended Friedel's PSA in 2004.

As for "moving it" that's absurd. He doesn't want to be affiliated, related to or connected with any MLS team or proposal. He has said that at least 50% of the residents won't be American kids anyway. It's not an MLS "youth program" and he doesn't want it to be.

You have very little idea what you're talking about.

ClevelandMark

10 Apr 2006, 05:28 PM

It's pretty idiotic to call it a "proposed" soccer academy when they broke ground two weeks ago.

Also because it's been going on for two or three years now and all they're doing is adding a residential program. You could have attended Friedel's PSA in 2004.

As for "moving it" that's absurd. He doesn't want to be affiliated, related to or connected with any MLS team or proposal. He has said that at least 50% of the residents won't be American kids anyway. It's not an MLS "youth program" and he doesn't want it to be.

You have very little idea what you're talking about.

Please clean up your insulting language if you plant to continue to chat in the Cleveland forum. Thanks

Big-Time Crew Fan

10 Apr 2006, 07:10 PM

Please clean up your insulting language if you plant to continue to chat in the Cleveland forum. Thanks
Maybe you didn't notice that he's from Pittsburgh.

ClevelandMark

26 May 2006, 08:04 AM

It's pretty idiotic to call it a "proposed" soccer academy when they broke ground two weeks ago.

Also because it's been going on for two or three years now and all they're doing is adding a residential program. You could have attended Friedel's PSA in 2004.

As for "moving it" that's absurd. He doesn't want to be affiliated, related to or connected with any MLS team or proposal. He has said that at least 50% of the residents won't be American kids anyway. It's not an MLS "youth program" and he doesn't want it to be.

You have very little idea what you're talking about.

In today's PD, 05-26-2006, the article is not on Cleveland.com (page A-2):

"Star player breaks ground today on Lorain soccer school for kids"

Take a look in the mirror, idiot.

BulaJacket

02 Sep 2006, 02:00 PM

http://www.morningjournal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17087786&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46371&rfi=6
Liveable expansion
JENNIFER BRACKEN, Morning Journal Writer
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Near Martin's Run and across the street from Lighthouse Village is another sign of revitalization in Lorain. The Brad Friedel Premiere Soccer Academies, 4397 Leavitt Road, is making progress and will have a 30,000-square-foot building with four soccer fields and an indoor facility. Construction on the site of the former Emerald Valley Golf Course is on schedule, and the academies will open in 2007. Its first class will begin Aug. 1, 2007, according to spokeswoman Kay Catlett.
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Nothing real big and no real news, but an article talking about the expansion of the area around the academy...

ButlerBob

26 Sep 2006, 10:22 AM

There has been two segements on the Academy on the FC Fox show on the Fox Soccer channel. One was just about the Academy and the other was a fund raising game against the Crew. Both were very insightful in what they are trying to do and their goals. They not only talked to Friedel, but their director of coaching Desomnd Armstrong (former US national team player and also former Cleveland Force player). Overall what they are trying to do sounds very interesting. Unlike most youth programs in this country, this program will be free to the participants.