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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thirteen year old children should not be professional referees. It's just a really bad idea. Obviously these coaches should have behaved better, based on your description. But you are just asking for trouble to force the coaches to pretend like the child referee is a serious authority figure on the field who has the judgment and knowledge to call the game fairly and-more importantly-ensure the safety of all the other children playing the game. [/quote]

[b]“Professional” is doing a LOT of heavy lifting there for a 10-year old rec soccer game.[/b] [/quote]

That's the thing though. All these refs act like they are doing the sport a huge favor by just showing up no matter how incompetent they are. It's a job. They get paid for it. They have decided that they should be the most important person at a soccer game that maybe 20-30 families will experience. It's a huge responsibility.

The families pay to play the rec soccer and the orgs that run these leagues and tournaments make plenty of money. I have no idea what this tournament is that the OP was at. But instead of complaining on an anonymous soccer message board, the family should go to the organizers and say that they need to pay their kid more if they ever want the kid to ref again. Reffing is a tough job, and the real issue is that organizations that make a ton of money from children playing soccer try to shave a bit more profit out of these tournaments by also paying children cut-rate prices to ref them. [/quote]

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