Nothing more enjoyable than watching adults complain on where a person stands. The HOA of the soccer world. Calm down Ken and Karen...just watch your kid. Are they playing well? Focus on that.

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Anonymous wrote:To all those in a tizzy about “wrong side” spectating…Sorry, but not sorry.

I will stand wherever I want…been doing so for many years and I don’t give a rat’s bum what any of y’all think.

If the sideline police want to report me, I’m easy to spot. I stand by the goal line away from everyone and I am very quiet. My kids are defenders and I enjoy watching them play. If that makes me a helicopter parent, then sign me up.

You are part of the problem, it has nothing to do with what comes out of your mouth. Moments get tense for some and you are there just to poke the bear. Just go to your side, I don't care where your kid plays. What's so hard?

No. Kick rocks.

Anonymous wrote:To all those in a tizzy about “wrong side” spectating…Sorry, but not sorry.

I will stand wherever I want…been doing so for many years and I don’t give a rat’s bum what any of y’all think.

If the sideline police want to report me, I’m easy to spot. I stand by the goal line away from everyone and I am very quiet. My kids are defenders and I enjoy watching them play. If that makes me a helicopter parent, then sign me up.

You are part of the problem, it has nothing to do with what comes out of your mouth. Moments get tense for some and you are there just to poke the bear. Just go to your side, I don't care where your kid plays. What's so hard?

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Anonymous wrote:To all those in a tizzy about “wrong side” spectating…Sorry, but not sorry.

I will stand wherever I want…been doing so for many years and I don’t give a rat’s bum what any of y’all think.

If the sideline police want to report me, I’m easy to spot. I stand by the goal line away from everyone and I am very quiet. My kids are defenders and I enjoy watching them play. If that makes me a helicopter parent, then sign me up.

As a referee, I would ask you to move. Spectators shouldn't be behind the goal line or on the side from the goal line to the top of the 18 yard box. So at the very least, can you abide by those rules so the referee might not have to stop the game to manage your stupidity?

Thank you! Again it's not the quiet person off in the corner that's the problem. It's the loud obnoxious parent who must be within 10 yards of the center line across the opponents side directly next to the other team. After dealing with several of these parents over the years it's enough to come complain here

Anonymous wrote:To all those in a tizzy about “wrong side” spectating…Sorry, but not sorry.

I will stand wherever I want…been doing so for many years and I don’t give a rat’s bum what any of y’all think.

If the sideline police want to report me, I’m easy to spot. I stand by the goal line away from everyone and I am very quiet. My kids are defenders and I enjoy watching them play. If that makes me a helicopter parent, then sign me up.

As a referee, I would ask you to move. Spectators shouldn't be behind the goal line or on the side from the goal line to the top of the 18 yard box. So at the very least, can you abide by those rules so the referee might not have to stop the game to manage your stupidity?

Anonymous wrote:Some awful Loudoun parents. Typical snowflake type. Screaming out of control and “tough play” is okay unless their angel is touched and if angel gets warned or carded “wasn’t their fault”. Blah

Doesn’t matter. Loudoun sucks at every level.

Anonymous wrote:Soccer at the university level is not a nice place to be.

Yes, this was my experience. It's funny now to see all the jockeying for the kids, all for a very small chance to play top college soccer (especially small for the boys). I played college soccer many years ago, and it was awful. Teammates were my least favorite people at school. Quit after freshman year; I was recruited but it was Ivy so no scholarship, so I just started complaining about leg injuries and gradually stopped going to practice, and nobody seemed to care. Most painful time of my life. Only re-discovered a love of soccer later.

I had many friends who played and worked in MLS, and I sat in the friends and family boxes many times. It was interesting to see parents of professional players still yelling at their kids. I do think MLS today is at a very different level than it was in the late 90s and early 2000s, but back then, you could always hear the DC United goalkeeper's mom yelling at him, in a very empty RFK.

Wait until university and those kids are alone without their parents to fight their fights. Many of them become horrible bullies. Soccer at the university level is not a nice place to be.

Why are parents at the practices of High School age players sitting on chairs inches from the sidelines?

Especially on the inside of the participants fence

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how "mental" all of you are acting on a thread to call out "mental parents". You are proving OP right. Bunch of lunatics out there and on here. So...I guess I'll join everyone...as far as where parents should be. Yes, parents should be across from your team and stay there. If one or two cross over to watch their kid because maybe a forward or a GK...of course we judge you as a helicopter parent but don't say anything to you. However, if more than 1 or 2 come over, I view this as the parents are just being a bunch of as-sholes and are looking for trouble. It's really not hard to just stay on your side. However, I did see a parent from another team run the sideline the whole game yelling to his kid before. Thank goodness that was only once.

I guess we will just have to continue to not care about your judgement or being called a helicopter parent...grow up.

Anonymous wrote:To all those in a tizzy about “wrong side” spectating…Sorry, but not sorry.

I will stand wherever I want…been doing so for many years and I don’t give a rat’s bum what any of y’all think.

If the sideline police want to report me, I’m easy to spot. I stand by the goal line away from everyone and I am very quiet. My kids are defenders and I enjoy watching them play. If that makes me a helicopter parent, then sign me up.

Maybe you need glasses 👓 😏

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I stand by the goal line away from everyone and I am very quiet. My kids are defenders and I enjoy watching them play. If that makes me a helicopter parent, then sign me up.

It's the loud mouth parent that get in the middle of the opposing team sideline that bothers people. I can't see anyone caring about what you are describing here.

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Anonymous wrote:Thread is more evidence of toxicity of soccer parents

OP here...100% why I posted in the first place haha. I am happy to report that my kid's pre-ECNL match was civil and almost pleasant this weekend. However, we did dominate so that may have helped.

We’re in ECNL but a different conference. Since my DD is a 2012, we are only a few weeks in but so far I’m impressed by the sideline behavior. But who knows what the older years will bring.

To all those in a tizzy about “wrong side” spectating…Sorry, but not sorry.

I will stand wherever I want…been doing so for many years and I don’t give a rat’s bum what any of y’all think.

If the sideline police want to report me, I’m easy to spot. I stand by the goal line away from everyone and I am very quiet. My kids are defenders and I enjoy watching them play. If that makes me a helicopter parent, then sign me up.

Snowflake thread of the year nominee. Gotta love nova