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Post by allthingsoccer on Oct 24, 2016 13:52:48 GMT -5
I'm not going to name the team/club but what I heard and saw over the weekend was/ is very disturbing. I will say it was a DA game.
I witnessed parents encouraging players to hurt the other players. To the point where one of those players is most likely out for 2-3 months from a tree chop from behind. This was totally done intentionally. What also makes it worse at no time during the game (which happened several times) did the ref warn or card the players. Refs need to kick parents out of the game.
This has to stop! Refs have to protect the players and parents need to just chill out. I wish we could have some sort of reporting tool. Report the parents and the ref.
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Post by rifle on Oct 24, 2016 16:21:10 GMT -5
Name the team. Why so ambiguous?
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Post by allthingsoccer on Oct 24, 2016 16:22:15 GMT -5
SSA
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Post by spectator on Oct 24, 2016 16:42:12 GMT -5
Suggestion - contact SSA with a detailed non emotional account of what you saw and heard. Hopefully the club will deal with this kind of thing. Referees are taught to tell the coach to control his or her parents and not to directly engage. This is as much on the coach as the referee and if it was a hit from behind like you stated, did the referee see that part if he was watching the game? Sounds like a dirty team of kids that have been taught these tactics by a dirty coach and obnoxious parents.
But first line of action should be to contact the club. Years ago our team mom had to contact a club about the actions of parents and she got an immediate response from the Director of that club as well as an apology from the coach for his parents' actions. Fast forward a few years, I met one of the parents from that club at a tournament and heard about how the parents were read the riot act by the coach and one of the biggest offenders was banned from games. So you never know what happens but nothing will unless you report it.
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Post by allthingsoccer on Oct 24, 2016 17:09:23 GMT -5
ok great thank you
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Post by jash on Oct 24, 2016 22:23:16 GMT -5
Turn on your camera and record... you don't even have to point it at the parents. Just record the game and stay quiet so you can hear what's being said.
Encouraging someone to injure someone else has no place in sports, and could easily be considered criminal behavior.
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Post by forsythsd on Oct 25, 2016 12:10:33 GMT -5
Also consider sending an email to their ref assignor. They're probably listed in the "how to be a referee" section of the club's website.
Advocating violence merits a send off.
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