Edu Academy Avis 

Great family environment! If you are good enough to play basketball at the next level, the camp will find you a club. There are great living conditions and food as well. Also there are great workouts to assure that if/when you get your opportunity you are prepared to perform!

**Please do not believe any of the five star reviews, these reviews are bought and totally untrue. Believe me, there are so many people who have been duped by all the false claims being made. Read the many bad reviews that are 100% true. **

This is a scam. DO not send any money to this company. My son was due to fly from Dublin and the camp was cancelled last week due to an alleged Covid outbreak with no offer of refunding my €965 for the camp and €60 for insurance!!! They won’t answer emails and will totally ignore you. We have also lost our flight money!!! I’m so mad. Their Facebook page looks so professional and they now allegedly have a camp on and have posted amazing looking photos and would you believe, keep deleting my negative comments on their post. Stay well clear of this company, they are FAKE 😡😡😡

My son is currently at Europe Basketball Academy and he is enjoying an amazing basketball experience. He is practicing twice a day on the court and once a day in the gym. During their free time, he is going to the beach with his friends and of course always someone from the staff members. It’s not easy to be a leading European academy but these people are absolute professionals and I strongly recommend this academy!

Europe Basketball Academy is a Scam

Europe Basketball Academy pays for fake reviews. The only honest and real reviews are the negative ones. Europe Basketball Academy has removed the review option from it's facebook account and periodically deletes its google account when the negative reviews pile up. Then they add a new google account and pay for many fake reviews, such as the review below this one, a five start review that was paid. Most of their social media followers are bots and were paid for. I imagine most of their youtube video views are by bots and also paid for. Only a scam organization would go to such lengths to deceit people.

The website shows a well organized company although it is anything but organized. The coaches are amatures not professional, the facilities are far from living and restaurant, there is no adult supervision, there is no gym access, there is no medical attention, there is no care whatsoever for the players in the program. You pay the fee and you just gave away your money to a shady Serbian and his group of mafia friends. No chance of a refund for any reason.

It's bad enough for an adult to attend Europe Basketball Academy, but to send a CHILD!? Don't even think about it! Hundreds of kids summers were ruined with a late night email saying their camp has been cancelled. My and many other kids thrown to the streets. We are forced to come to Spain to pick up our kids and have no chance to find other options for them. Parents are working on a class action lawsuit as well as multiple police reports have been filed. Don't make the mistake these other parents have made!

This organization has been doing this for many years. It shows the company has been running since 2018, stealing money and ruining the summers of families from all over the world. Save your time and money and find another camp/academy/training program. You will regret it if you choose Europe Basketball Academy.

I wanted to thank you for taking care of my son for the last month. He returned home with a completely different outlook toward his grades and his basketball commitment. His conversations with your staff must have really struck a chord, and I believe you have given him a new mindset and set him on a new path to achieve academically and to focus on his training. Thank you for such wise advice in opening his eyes to all of the opportunities available to him. This was a wonderful life experience for him - thank you for re-energizing the passion in a smart and determined young man.

What experience is there to talk about apart from the complete waste of time and money. I am almost 19 and I have registered back when I was 16. I got canceled on 3 times with just a couple days notice. this year its worst i got told 24 hours before my flight. In total my mom has lost around 4000 euros to send my brother and I to this horrible, disorganised, and completely outrageous camp that scams everyone. I really hope from the bottom of my heart that these people get what they deserve for ruining a lot of kids lives and parents money.

This has to be the worst basketball camp in the world because for the past 3 years my brother and I have been trying to go to this camp and for the past 3 years the camp has been cancelled this is literally unacceptable. Today I spoke with to the person that was suppose to pick us up from the airport and he told me that the camp was cancelled and he said that we were suppose to receive an email but when I check I did not receive anything nor did my parents. So I have no clue what to do.

my son was also in the program which started on June 28th. I would like to contact anyone who wants to start a legal process so that we can join forces. it is a very bad matter. contact me at jeanninevanmourik Hotmail account

This academy is a complete scam and waste of time, they lie about EVERYTHING on the website.

The jerseys are always wet and half cleaned, you have to walk 30 minutes to the court and weight room, the food is low quality and mediocre, the restaurant isn’t clean and sometimes there is no meal. The schedule on the website is a complete lie too, everybody follows the same schedule regardless of what programme you selected. Unnecessary running tests that waste valuable practice time. You don’t actually get many reps up as the coach just does motions and plays which isn’t benifiting anyone as we are not a team, we came here to improve OUR skills personally, not as a team.

There is no weight room programme or recovery. If you don’t know what to do in the weight room your screwed and can get injured. The facilities shown on the website aren’t even real. The weight room and pool is just a public facility so it’s always busy. No pyshiotherapy or injury prevention services.
The 2 week kids camp was also cancelled like 24 hours after it began, so over 50 kids were left stranded in a not so safe area of spain.

DO NOT ATTEND, go rent out a gym for the same price for the summer and practice yourself or join a different academy as this is a waste of time

don't send your kids to this academy's summer camp. This is a scam and criminals. more than 70 children from all over the world came to the summer camp, three days later they were kicked out of the camp, explaining this by a lack of money from this academy.

/// Edited again 15th August 2022 ///

I repeat: do not trust the Positive reviews.
Srdjan Premovic
Goran Premovic (brother)
Vladimir Mikić and others have scammed dozens of people.
The latest camp starting 15th August was cancelled at 24 hours notice.

These people are thieves. They refuse to refund anything.

Please get in touch- we have a WhatsApp Group now for those scammed.

Note: the positive reviews are from UNVERIFIED users paid by the crooks who run EBA.
I am verified.

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Please would those affected by the "Covid" cancellations and lack of refunds get in touch with me.

I'm easy to find via Google.
"Saul Richman Dubai"

We had booked flights from Dubai to Barcelona for our 16 year old boy for the mid-July 2 week camp only to be told it was cancelled and he could go "next year".

We paid 965 EUR and 60 EUR Extra Health Insurance.
They are not refunding ANY of it.

I want to start Legal Class action against these people who have ruined my Son's summer, primarily Vladimir Mikić, the Manager.

My wife is Colombian and she is spitting blood with anger.
She wants these thieves taken to court.

We want our money back.

I accidentally found out that the camp was cancelled. I nearly send my 14 year old alone in a foreign country! They are claiming that due to their terms I do not have right to a refund. That is not true because the statement in their terms is unclear. But the European legislation is very clear that everything that is postponed because of covid is subdued to a total refund.
We have to get our money back. It is easier in numbers.

SCAM! SCAM! SCAM! We Had our son and all his friends from UKRAINE sign up for this camp, they came for one day, with no organization, kids waiting for HOURS, fed dinner at Midnight. Next day we were told camp is canceled and one day we have to pick them up. NIGHTMARE!!!! DO NOT GO!!!!!

Please read this review. This company is fraud, they will take your money and tell you to pick up your child the next day. They will not give you back the money. The owner is a fraud and this is an illegal organization.

My son started a "program" on June 28 2022 that was terminated two days after. Amazing that they think they can get away with it.
I couldn't believe the stories my son was telling me.
No one contact us since then, I see that the website it still offering a camp on Aug 15. I can't believe it.
Disgrace for professionalism and basketball.

They fooled us. We paid and one week before they cancelled. No refund, no contact, no excuse! What a scam. We lost our money with no excuse
Maybe we can all make a claim together? And announce to the media the fraud?
They are dangerous for our kids
I did a complaint to the ECC the European consumers center. Others should also do. The more the best
And also make a Facebook sida and expose them before other kids are fooled

From my experience of what i was told by the academy is far from the truth. Please read this whole thing cause im going to say the full truth of what their about from the 3 months I was their pro placement and development.

First off they said we had a bus to practice but yet we walk 30 minutes twice a day. We were also promised a recovery facility but we didn't have one. There was one scout that came in the 3 months I was there that needed players cause they were short. We were also promised game film but none of our games were filmed. I was also promised a 30-40 game season and 3 tournaments but I played 2 games and one tournament where we had fake names so coaches at the tournament didn't know who we really were. We were also promised professional coaching but we have 22 year olds coaching us and a boxer who doesn't play basketball. Every month theres people leaving the first week and a guy who played overseas for 7 years left after one day. Sheets are cleaned once a month. Jerseys are also wet. All 3 months I was their everybody was complaining about how of a scam it is. They also claim that they sign players that didn't do it from this and did something else to get signed. We were also promised taping after practicing and a physical trainer but we don't have one. They also limit younger players games telling players that there not allowed to shoot and the manager Serg who looks like a libarian and looks like he never touched a basketball said to me im not allowed to dribble in the France tournament when I never had a coach that said that to me in the states playing for a top AAU team in the west coast. They did a really good job lying to as I was trying to find a mid way tranfer from my high school because of politics their and didnt see a point of transfering to skip half of the season to only play 4-5 games left so I went here then got completely scammed other players felt the same way I did. I encourage you to save your money or you can attend this program called europrobasket in Valencia that made by a pro team Valencia basket thats a legit program to help players play overseas.

If possible 0 stars would have been more correct. Very short conclusion; don’t send your kids here.
Absolutely no coordination and no planning from the Academy whatsoever. Hours and hours of waiting for everything; for pick up in the airport, for the hotel, for the food…. This is not at all what is presented on the website.
Facts:
- Kids are staying at obscure hotel rooms and are left on their own.
- Very small portions of food (eg 1/2 slice of toast for breakfast and 25 gr of rice for dinner). Luckily there was a supermarket close by for the kids to buy additional bread etc. (and pay for themselves)
- Food is being brought to the hotels in boxes (!) for the kids to eat in their rooms on their beds (!) (btw - dinner arrived around midnight).
- No joint dinner or gathering or anything.
- Basketball training sessions in a very old facility
- very little training - not at all what the website program states.
- no water supplies at training sessions so kids need to buy their own

And then from one day to the other parents are asked to buy return flight tickets to their kids because the academy is cancelling the camp all of the sudden with the excuse that they are having organisational challenges (well…yes!) Apparently the challenges occurred:
1) because a lot of kids attended this year’s camp (why is that a surprise for the Academy?? Furthermore, when I booked the camp for my son I was told that “only a few seats left” - haha total scam)
2) hotels are more expensive during summer (again - why is that a surprise to the Academy?)

I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. 80 boys arrived in Barcelona with high expectations of a summer camp full of basket in a professional set-up. Their dreams were completely destroyed by the Academy. Let’s see if we will get the refund in 90 days as they promise…

Unbelievably unprofessional. We just arrived in Barcelona as a family of 5 from Guatemala. Two of my sons were very excited to be able to participate in the basketball camp and one day upon arrival we received an e-mail that the camp starting July 15th was cancelled. No information about refunds, lousy excuses, a whole family family holiday organized around this camp ruined. No response so far from anybody of this organization to our e-mails. Out of words here, unbelievable.

A total scam. The 2022 Summer Camp has been cancelled all of the sudden and kids thrown on the street.