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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son played soccer on a mostly Hispanic team. People are very prejudice against Hispanic kids in soccer. We had so many issues with parents yelling at our parents and at our kids calling them names. Kids on the field would tell them to "go back to their country".

I had to get tournament officials involved on many occasions to control the way parents, kids and officials treated our team.

It's sad but true, that people think Hispanic people are 'out of control" when they are playing soccer. Yes they yell a lot in Spanish but it was no more than the other parents.  [/quote]

When I think of Hispanic youth soccer players, I think of those teams teams that often don't even enter the various travel programs in the area, but could easily defeat some of our top (mostly white) teams.  Sorry for being racist - but not sure if I'm being racist against white players or Hispanic players - please advise.[/quote]

I agree that many Hispanic families in this area can't afford the cost of travel soccer and they will demolish a white Bethesda/Potomac/etc team and play real soccer which includes body contact and then the white Bethesda people freak out, think they are fouling when they are not and call the kids names.

You are generalizing which is called an implicit bias. I am too, I am implicitly biased against rich white people because they call foul when their kids are beat at anything and need to blame the referee and dirty play. [/quote]

I just wish I knew where these Hispanic kids played any type of drop-in or street soccer.  Would love to have my pasty white boys play against that type of soccer to toughen them up and see what real competition is like.  Only place where we've had that type of competition to date is in some of the Fairfax Sportsplex leagues.    Our team kept up in many of the games, but it is a different type of soccer and you do have to play rough.  But to play like that every weekend or after school is what they would love - just don't have a clue where to begin.[/quote]

You would everything with your need for field permits, matching league uniforms , other organizational crap and your ultimately turning the game into a nightmare of dad instructed plays and kick and run soccer. Don't bother these people, you'd ruin everything that is good.[/quote]

My blonde boys have a spot where they are inevitably the only gringos.  They have been going for years.  They earned the "respect":)--over time.  Now, when they see them coming they are clamoring to have them on their side.  My "smaller" son is tough as balls which I credit to playing with these kids where he was often the youngest by a few years.  I also would "look the other way" whenever a 'throw-down" or fight was happening. Some of the other moms wouldn't bring their kids here anymore (not the Hispanic moms).  But, the kids always solved it on their own and the much older kids were great with the ones that were smaller---would still pass to them and include them--and make sure they weren't trampled.  In fact, when my little one beat down the kid that kept hacking everyone's ankles and knees from behind his mother was happy.  The older boys decided it was my kid that had to do it because he was of similar age:).

So--my kids don't shy away when we play the teams mentioned in this thread and they know what to do to make the opposing team stop grabbing their shirt and tugging on their arms.  If they know you won't take it, they leave you alone.

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