Anonymous wrote:At yesterday’s U11 tournament, the 2nd place coach earned a red card and was ejected from the game. His wife’s behavior toward the refs was nearly as atrocious as her husband’s.

Best: seeing all the girls reaction to any players injury by taking a knee and clapping for the injured player when she left the field. Classy and good sportsmanship.

Anonymous wrote:We play a very aggressive Offside Trap. Even teams that beat us end up with 8 calls in the first half. 2nd half depends on whether they can learn or not. Well we played a year younger than us, but they were ranked Nationally #2 GotSoccer #4 Youthsoccer. CLEARLY they were the better team. They had a 3-0 lead on us in the first half. Right at the end of the first half a parent directed one of their kids to kick (as in turn around and kick) one of our defenders. No card was issued then, but my understanding was that three yellows were given to them at half time. (I heard this from their parents.) Two minutes into the 2nd half, there was a hard foul on one of our kids resulting initially as a yellow card and about a 3 minute delay as he was attended ...... his father came out to tend to him (presumably with referee permission, as he was NEVER escorted off the field). One of their parents was kicked out of the game due to persistent complaining to the referees. Finally, after one of their parents threatened the referee that "I'll be waiting for you in the parking lot." the game and the police were called. I won't claim that our parents were angels, as the discussion was heated as to if the father was allowed to tend to his child (on the parent side of the field), but I didn't hear any inappropriate talk.

I am pretty sure it was their inexperience with an offside trap that led to all this disruption. For that and the fact that none of our kids escalated the confrontations made be proud of our boys.

Anonymous wrote:We play a very aggressive Offside Trap. Even teams that beat us end up with 8 calls in the first half. 2nd half depends on whether they can learn or not. Well we played a year younger than us, but they were ranked Nationally #2 GotSoccer #4 Youthsoccer. CLEARLY they were the better team. They had a 3-0 lead on us in the first half. Right at the end of the first half a parent directed one of their kids to kick (as in turn around and kick) one of our defenders. No card was issued then, but my understanding was that three yellows were given to them at half time. (I heard this from their parents.) Two minutes into the 2nd half, there was a hard foul on one of our kids resulting initially as a yellow card and about a 3 minute delay as he was attended ...... his father came out to tend to him (presumably with referee permission, as he was NEVER escorted off the field). One of their parents was kicked out of the game due to persistent complaining to the referees. Finally, after one of their parents threatened the referee that "I'll be waiting for you in the parking lot." the game and the police were called. I won't claim that our parents were angels, as the discussion was heated as to if the father was allowed to tend to his child (on the parent side of the field), but I didn't hear any inappropriate talk.

I am pretty sure it was their inexperience with an offside trap that led to all this disruption. For that and the fact that none of our kids escalated the confrontations made be proud of our boys.

Anonymous wrote:Listening to 3 coaches for same team scream out directions to all players during the course of the game.