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[quote=SoccerRef][quote=Anonymous]This should be fun...I reffed soccer at every level through about 2006 (played semi-pro in the late 1990's as well.) So many things are different now - there were always jackwad parents, but so many more today. Also with kids specializing at an early age things begin to be all or nothing at 10, which is just stupid.

At the higher levels, there was always a fair amount of sniping, but it was mostly respectful. And it went both ways - refs and players would communicate. There were times as a ref I blew a call and owned up to it, or let the next iffy one go. And players would take responsibility.

Not so today. You see it most in pro basketball, where every player thinks he is LeBron and should get LeBron calls. In soccer these kids think every touch is a foul. every play is one-sided, every attack against them is personal. I chaulk it up to millennial parenting.[/quote]

Yeah, that's about right. 
I think there's so much money in it now, that parents take things more personally. I have kids in travel, so I totally understand that. 
And kids feed off of their parents attitude, and the attitudes they see on TV, which is so much more prevalent now than it was 20 years ago. [/quote]

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