Celebrations in youth soccer, what is acceptable

[Anonymous]

We played a U11 team this weekend with a player who did a flip throw in. That seemed a bit over the top to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We played a U11 team this weekend with a player who did a flip throw in. That seemed a bit over the top to me.

We have a girl that does that and she can't get it any further than a normal throw in. They can meet up and join the circus together.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thats BS that its part of the hispanic culture. Doesn't make it acceptable one bit. However , rather than complain tell your kids remember the feeling and use it as motivation. Never allow another team to do that to you again.

Yeah. Where are you getting this "hispanic culture" stuff? Generally, the all-hispanic teams we play have very chill, very serious players and the only trend I've noticed is some (not all) scream-ier coaches. Definitely no over the top celebrations. I kiiiiind of feel like this PP was like "Oh! Hispanic culture has colorful decorations and stuff - they must celebrate goals!" Yikes.

I'm hispanic and when my son scores, we break out the Mariachi Band.

My non-Hispanic son plays for a mostly Hispanic team and it seems like the Hispanic parents promote excessive celebrations. I am waiting for them to bring drums and fireworks. Honestly. I am. It's VERY uncomfortable sometimes. The coach allows it because he believes it's the culture and doesn't want to stop it. I have a feeling that the parents of one of the non-Hispanic kids will move their kid to another team because it's that uncomfortable for them. They feel its very unsporting. I'm not there yet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thats BS that its part of the hispanic culture. Doesn't make it acceptable one bit. However , rather than complain tell your kids remember the feeling and use it as motivation. Never allow another team to do that to you again.

Yeah. Where are you getting this "hispanic culture" stuff? Generally, the all-hispanic teams we play have very chill, very serious players and the only trend I've noticed is some (not all) scream-ier coaches. Definitely no over the top celebrations. I kiiiiind of feel like this PP was like "Oh! Hispanic culture has colorful decorations and stuff - they must celebrate goals!" Yikes.

I'm hispanic and when my son scores, we break out the Mariachi Band.

My non-Hispanic son plays for a mostly Hispanic team and it seems like the Hispanic parents promote excessive celebrations. I am waiting for them to bring drums and fireworks. Honestly. I am. It's VERY uncomfortable sometimes. The coach allows it because he believes it's the culture and doesn't want to stop it. I have a feeling that the parents of one of the non-Hispanic kids will move their kid to another team because it's that uncomfortable for them. They feel its very unsporting. I'm not there yet.

My non-Hispanic sons played on a mostly Hispanic team and they never excessively celebrated. The only difference between our team and other teams (besides we possessed the ball most the time) is that the other team would tell out team to "go back to their county" almost every game... and parents from the other team would practice their Spanglish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thats BS that its part of the hispanic culture. Doesn't make it acceptable one bit. However , rather than complain tell your kids remember the feeling and use it as motivation. Never allow another team to do that to you again.

Yeah. Where are you getting this "hispanic culture" stuff? Generally, the all-hispanic teams we play have very chill, very serious players and the only trend I've noticed is some (not all) scream-ier coaches. Definitely no over the top celebrations. I kiiiiind of feel like this PP was like "Oh! Hispanic culture has colorful decorations and stuff - they must celebrate goals!" Yikes.

I'm hispanic and when my son scores, we break out the Mariachi Band.

My non-Hispanic son plays for a mostly Hispanic team and it seems like the Hispanic parents promote excessive celebrations. I am waiting for them to bring drums and fireworks. Honestly. I am. It's VERY uncomfortable sometimes. The coach allows it because he believes it's the culture and doesn't want to stop it. I have a feeling that the parents of one of the non-Hispanic kids will move their kid to another team because it's that uncomfortable for them. They feel its very unsporting. I'm not there yet.

My sons team played one team at a tournament that brought drums. The parent on the sideline was a constant drumming throughout the whole game and more on any goals scored or big plays. It was annoying and distracted from the game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is a fine example of why there are so many jerky kids...because so many jerky parents with responses like the above.

It's tacky.

100 percent this

[Anonymous]

This one time at band camp we had drums and spanish people speaking English and yeah..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thats BS that its part of the hispanic culture. Doesn't make it acceptable one bit. However , rather than complain tell your kids remember the feeling and use it as motivation. Never allow another team to do that to you again.

Yeah. Where are you getting this "hispanic culture" stuff? Generally, the all-hispanic teams we play have very chill, very serious players and the only trend I've noticed is some (not all) scream-ier coaches. Definitely no over the top celebrations. I kiiiiind of feel like this PP was like "Oh! Hispanic culture has colorful decorations and stuff - they must celebrate goals!" Yikes.

I'm hispanic and when my son scores, we break out the Mariachi Band.

My non-Hispanic son plays for a mostly Hispanic team and it seems like the Hispanic parents promote excessive celebrations. I am waiting for them to bring drums and fireworks. Honestly. I am. It's VERY uncomfortable sometimes. The coach allows it because he believes it's the culture and doesn't want to stop it. I have a feeling that the parents of one of the non-Hispanic kids will move their kid to another team because it's that uncomfortable for them. They feel its very unsporting. I'm not there yet.

My sons team played one team at a tournament that brought drums. The parent on the sideline was a constant drumming throughout the whole game and more on any goals scored or big plays. It was annoying and distracted from the game.

Um, that's not spanish. That's soccer all around the world except here in the states. We make soccer boring, get over it because whether it's EPL or La Liga they are yelling, singing, drumming. That's just the way it is, but noooooo we think it's unsportsmanlike.

[Anonymous]

That got me remembering -- back in the day - my kid played a couple of years in a league that included a hispanic club that owned the grounds they played on. That was the most fun club to do an away game as they had a snack stand. We would have 100% parent turn out even though it was a good 3 hours away because the food was unbelievable. Including the Mexican soda. The people were great. The atmosphere was always fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is a fine example of why there are so many jerky kids...because so many jerky parents with responses like the above.

It's tacky.

100 percent this

Nah 100% I don't want my kids to learn how to lose.

[Anonymous]

We have a rec team with a really wide range of abilities. We get VERY excited when a kid who never scores finally does so. We would temper our celebration if we were up by more than a couple of points, though. Our celebration usually involves maybe the kid doing a fist pump and getting a few high fives.

We also tend to clap politely for scores or saves by the other team, because we're nice. And we dial the effort back if we're way ahead of a team. (which doesn't happen much in our division.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thats BS that its part of the hispanic culture. Doesn't make it acceptable one bit. However , rather than complain tell your kids remember the feeling and use it as motivation. Never allow another team to do that to you again.

Yeah. Where are you getting this "hispanic culture" stuff? Generally, the all-hispanic teams we play have very chill, very serious players and the only trend I've noticed is some (not all) scream-ier coaches. Definitely no over the top celebrations. I kiiiiind of feel like this PP was like "Oh! Hispanic culture has colorful decorations and stuff - they must celebrate goals!" Yikes.

I'm hispanic and when my son scores, we break out the Mariachi Band.

My non-Hispanic son plays for a mostly Hispanic team and it seems like the Hispanic parents promote excessive celebrations. I am waiting for them to bring drums and fireworks. Honestly. I am. It's VERY uncomfortable sometimes. The coach allows it because he believes it's the culture and doesn't want to stop it. I have a feeling that the parents of one of the non-Hispanic kids will move their kid to another team because it's that uncomfortable for them. They feel its very unsporting. I'm not there yet.

Wtf no, they don’t. Individual parents might promote it, some might celebrate themselves (or cheer loudly), but you’re making an ignorant blanket statement with no certainty. Perhaps find a league where people snap their fingers instead of clapping.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thats BS that its part of the hispanic culture. Doesn't make it acceptable one bit. However , rather than complain tell your kids remember the feeling and use it as motivation. Never allow another team to do that to you again.

Yeah. Where are you getting this "hispanic culture" stuff? Generally, the all-hispanic teams we play have very chill, very serious players and the only trend I've noticed is some (not all) scream-ier coaches. Definitely no over the top celebrations. I kiiiiind of feel like this PP was like "Oh! Hispanic culture has colorful decorations and stuff - they must celebrate goals!" Yikes.

I'm hispanic and when my son scores, we break out the Mariachi Band.

My non-Hispanic son plays for a mostly Hispanic team and it seems like the Hispanic parents promote excessive celebrations. I am waiting for them to bring drums and fireworks. Honestly. I am. It's VERY uncomfortable sometimes. The coach allows it because he believes it's the culture and doesn't want to stop it. I have a feeling that the parents of one of the non-Hispanic kids will move their kid to another team because it's that uncomfortable for them. They feel its very unsporting. I'm not there yet.

My sons team played one team at a tournament that brought drums. The parent on the sideline was a constant drumming throughout the whole game and more on any goals scored or big plays. It was annoying and distracted from the game.

Um, that's not spanish. That's soccer all around the world except here in the states. We make soccer boring, get over it because whether it's EPL or La Liga they are yelling, singing, drumming. That's just the way it is, but noooooo we think it's unsportsmanlike.

Exactly.

What's becoming clear is that there are many people on this thread who really have no idea of what the culture of the global game is like, and the only people they have experienced who are actually connected to that culture are latinos. Thus their conclusion that finding creative ways to express joy and share that feeling with one's teammates and supporters is just part of "hispanic culture."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thats BS that its part of the hispanic culture. Doesn't make it acceptable one bit. However , rather than complain tell your kids remember the feeling and use it as motivation. Never allow another team to do that to you again.

Yeah. Where are you getting this "hispanic culture" stuff? Generally, the all-hispanic teams we play have very chill, very serious players and the only trend I've noticed is some (not all) scream-ier coaches. Definitely no over the top celebrations. I kiiiiind of feel like this PP was like "Oh! Hispanic culture has colorful decorations and stuff - they must celebrate goals!" Yikes.

I'm hispanic and when my son scores, we break out the Mariachi Band.

My non-Hispanic son plays for a mostly Hispanic team and it seems like the Hispanic parents promote excessive celebrations. I am waiting for them to bring drums and fireworks. Honestly. I am. It's VERY uncomfortable sometimes. The coach allows it because he believes it's the culture and doesn't want to stop it. I have a feeling that the parents of one of the non-Hispanic kids will move their kid to another team because it's that uncomfortable for them. They feel its very unsporting. I'm not there yet.

My sons team played one team at a tournament that brought drums. The parent on the sideline was a constant drumming throughout the whole game and more on any goals scored or big plays. It was annoying and distracted from the game.

Um, that's not spanish. That's soccer all around the world except here in the states. We make soccer boring, get over it because whether it's EPL or La Liga they are yelling, singing, drumming. That's just the way it is, but noooooo we think it's unsportsmanlike.

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What's becoming clear is that there are many people on this thread who really have no idea of what the culture of the global game is like, and the only people they have experienced who are actually connected to that culture are latinos. Thus their conclusion that finding creative ways to express joy and share that feeling with one's teammates and supporters is just part of "hispanic culture."

Funniest part is that it makes them “uncomfortable”. Why? How?

[Anonymous]

I think what we have here is an ignorant troll. Don't respond to them and don't give them a second of your time. When people play low, you go high.