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[quote=Anonymous][quote=SoccerRef][quote=Anonymous]I was at a U11 game where one of our team's boys and a boy on the opposing team tripped over each other. The opposing team's boy went down on his back and my son said he reportedly blacked out briefly.  He was down for a while and both coaches and the ref looked worried about him (I was on the side line so it was hard to see everything).  Parents came over and carried him off after a couple minutes. It sure didn't seem like they followed concussion guidelines though as he was back on in the 2nd half, but I'm not an expert. What are they supposed to do in a situation like this? [/quote]

"I'm not an expert."...that's your key quote. Neither am I, neither are the coaches and neither are the parents. 
All I'm supposed to do as a ref is make sure they go off the field if I think there's been any sort of hard head contact. Beyond that, it's all in the hands of the coach, and whatever his leagues guidelines and training are.  
But since no one at the youth level actually has a qualified trainer on the sideline, we all have to be part of a team watching out for the kids. 
As for your example, if someone had to be carried off the field because of a head injury, they are not going back in the game on my watch, period...even if I have to abandon the game and deal with whatever the consequences were. [/quote]

For the past few years, coaching license courses have included some concussion awareness content, including a video that's roughly the equivalent of whatever you may have seen in drivers ed to scare you to death.

We all get lists of symptoms to watch and so forth.

Not foolproof by any means, and I'm sure some coaches may stubbornly cling to the old ways. But sometimes, it's really not a concussion.[/quote]

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