Europa Soccer Camps

A SCAMMER! A liar, thief and pervert.

Unfortunately, I felt for his trap of doing business with him as his contractor coach. He promised me 4 weeks of work and failed miserably to pay me, and now I have about 4k of expenses alone.

Not only he lied and did NOT pay me along with a list LONG of coaches, certified trainers for injuries, and parents! Not to mention, schools such as Lawrenceville, Andrew school (Rhode island) who are suing Mr. Dennis Lukens.

I've watched him continuously stare at younger girls (13 /14 years of age) in a perverted way, knocking at their doors at 9pm, who knows for what. The camp is a scam, NO equipment, NO schedule its a piece of trash... it's never accurate, big talk but nothing useful. He has absolutely no plan, not even sure how he obtained a US coaching license, which he's surely looking to get it revoked very soon, hopefully along with his FAKE Uefa license... because he couldn't even run a proper training session for a U10 team.

False advertisement... He consistently makes people drives and fly hours for this useless camp that promises nothing special. You're better off hiring a private trainer, you'll thank me later! Trust me on that!

He's promised people refunds and ignores their calls, emails. He told a poor 18yr old to flight from Dubai here, the kid was supposed to be training for college try outs. When he arrived there was only younger players...
Mother was furious as she should be, Dennis never bothered to help her along with many parents.

Website is arguably the best part of this stupid camp which draws people to it, but believe me! Nothing to see here. Don't waste your time, energy and money. This guy is a pro at being a scammer, he even made a gofund page to raise over 30k making himself a victim of fugitive from Ukraine, uses his son to bribe for money.

A true piece of $#*! of human. Not only I hope he rots in jail but also hell.

You can send your kids to this place to learn soccer without any second thoughts, as they are truly amazing. Keep up the good work guys!

My son has recently joined this great soccer camp. Many famous former soccer players from Europe make him learn the best soccer-playing skills. Last week, I saw my son playing a soccer match, and he has really improved his skills. I suggest all learn soccer from them!

Really good training for my kids, excellent facilities and really motivating coaches! My kids really enjoyed the entire activities! Thanks a lot! Would definitely come back and recommend this!

My Daughter has gone to Europa Soccer Camp for the past 3 years excluding 2020 (Covid-19). She loved the New York location at Pawling as the facilities were excellent and as with the New Jersey locations the coaches were outstanding. At both Pawling and the NJ location she had coaches brought in from Europe. From what I saw and as my Daughter described the European coaches were better than the Club Coaches she is trained by locally. The primary difference according to her is that the coaches at Europa Soccer Camp have the ability to demonstrate all soccer techniques. Plus, all training was done in a game like format. My Daughter said they were constantly playing small games. I watched the evening activities and games and I was absolutely thrilled with the level of coaching she got and how they conducted all the training and games. My Daughter's experiences at Europa Soccer Camp have been only excellent in both Pawling, New York and Lawrence, NJ.

Camp is run by Dennis Lukens. He has been scamming people with different camp names for years (Premier soccer camps, Soccer Camps by the Ocean). His name never appears on the site but he is the camp director on site. He may introduce himself as "Bob". Robert Whalen, not sure if another alias or an accomplice, communicates with parents. They promised us amenities that never materialized (pool, air conditioning) and a registered nurse on campus who did not exist. The coaches he has advertised on the website are not the coaches on the campus and neither is the program. The coaches who do coach at camp are also victims of Dennis, as there are a number of them who have never gotten paid for their work. He recruits them with false promises as well. Dennis, aka Bob, ran a camp on Trinity Pawling campus and my son and his 4 teammates were supposed to stay for two weeks. When the weekend came around, Dennis took off and left a coach alone with kids and only $100 to feed them trough the weekend, with no means of transportation to go get food off campus and never came back--- the catering service he said would be there on the weekend were not contracted for the weekend. Campus terminated his contract after 2 weeks for non-payment. Coaches were not told where emergency equipment was located ( epi-pens, defibrillators) and did not even have access to a first aid kit.