First Yellow Card

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any advice to tell my daughter who got her first yellow card today? She’s 12. The card was for repeatedly telling an opponent to stop pushing.

Push back.. it's soccer.

[Anonymous]

Yeet or be yeeted

[Anonymous]

Yellow badge of honor.

[Anonymous]

Messi get them too. nothing wrong with red..
What happens when they get red? do they get to sit out for the rest of the game and the other game or just one/?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any advice to tell my daughter who got her first yellow card today? She’s 12. The card was for repeatedly telling an opponent to stop pushing.

I can't imagine they would give a card for that. There's got to be something else. Maybe she kept complaining to the ref.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any advice to tell my daughter who got her first yellow card today? She’s 12. The card was for repeatedly telling an opponent to stop pushing.

I can't imagine they would give a card for that. There's got to be something else. Maybe she kept complaining to the ref.

At that age, I can see a ref doing it to teach a lesson. A free kick in the middle of the field isn't really much of an advantage, so it's no consequence for the kid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any advice to tell my daughter who got her first yellow card today? She’s 12. The card was for repeatedly telling an opponent to stop pushing.

I can't imagine they would give a card for that. There's got to be something else. Maybe she kept complaining to the ref.

At that age, I can see a ref doing it to teach a lesson. A free kick in the middle of the field isn't really much of an advantage, so it's no consequence for the kid

I agree with the previous poster that I CANNOT imagine a ref giving a kid a yellow card (at any age) for repeatedly telling an opponent to stop pushing. What is the YC for? There's no rule against telling an opponent to stop pushing...even repeatedly. You can do that 1000 times and no card. So as to teach a lesson? What lesson? If the referee gave a card for this, the lesson is that ... there are really crappy refs out there, just keep playing. Referees typically don't like giving YCs to 12 year old girls and, for some reason, and this sounds like rec. So referees don't like pulling cards to 12 year old rec girls. Your daughter must have don't something else. But with that said, she got a YC. It's fine. It happens. It's part of the game and there will be times where she will have to make a tactical foul (Stopping a Promising Attack) that will be an automatic YC, but it might save a goal and is the SMART thing to do. You just move on.

[Anonymous]

My daughter gets one almost every game (Yes, I know, she's working on it) but I've never seen her opponents get more than a warning when they curse at her, even with the worst language. Was the ref on the older side? Maybe it's a generational thing.

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Cards are part of the game, don't get mouthy with the ref or other players. Just play your game and if you get a card for playing hard (not dirty) there is no shame in it. In fact, when she is older she might commit a foul on purpose.

[Anonymous]

I don’t see the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter gets one almost every game (Yes, I know, she's working on it) but I've never seen her opponents get more than a warning when they curse at her, even with the worst language. Was the ref on the older side? Maybe it's a generational thing.

How old is your daughter and are you saying she gets them for her mouth or is she tripping girls and shoving from behind even when other girls don’t have the ball?

[Anonymous]

My daughter and her opponent both got yellow cards in a high school game recently because the opponent told my daughter to get her hands off her and my daughter replied, that’s how you play soccer.

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My 9.5 year old got one for the first time this season. It was a great play where he stopped a goal from going in. The ref didn't have a great view and the call was questionable, but oh well. We said nothing and moved on. I would only be upset with my kid if he got it for something unsportsmanlike.

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It's part of life, accept it and move on. It will happen again, hopefully not frequently.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter gets one almost every game (Yes, I know, she's working on it) but I've never seen her opponents get more than a warning when they curse at her, even with the worst language. Was the ref on the older side? Maybe it's a generational thing.

How old is your daughter and are you saying she gets them for her mouth or is she tripping girls and shoving from behind even when other girls don’t have the ball?

Why would she shove someone when they don't even have the ball?? That's crazy. No, she gets carded for shouldering and body checking when she's fighting an opponent for possession. She's 13 and soccer isn't her main sport so she's still learning how to stand her ground without getting a foul. She's also really tall and muscular so she tends to draw the ref's eye. She's been cursed at a few times (which is what I was saying before...) but I've never seen anyone get a card for it, which is why the OP's situation is odd.