Dear Phoenix cup tournament officials, specifically the referee team, and league officials and parents of BYSL.
What í watched this weekend was violence that I've never seen in all my years of watching and participating in soccer, in California and Europe.
A coach, a team, and a group of parents who have taken a group of kids and trained them to dish out brutality, to physically punish other teams with jabs, elbows, hand pushing, lifting elbows into defender's faces to intimidate, foot stepping, fouls away from the ball, fouls after the whistle...it's obvious these kids are being trained this way, a center defender who gets beat 1:1 turns, and with arms outstretched heaves a striker onto the ground in the box, and then the center defender "dives" this can only be taught (no call from Ref). Kids don't have the instincts to do these Marco Materazzi moves. The kid wearing the captain armband, striker, lifting her forearm and elbow into the face our defenders múltiples times to manufacture space...all very dangerous (no call from Ref)
Referee. You are terrible to allow such dangerous and violent behaviour, and as a result of your loosing control of that game, it directly resulted in a physical altercation between parents whose kids were being victimized by you, the referee, allowing BYSL to play that garbage soccer.
So here's what I'm doing as a parent. Next year. No Phoenix cup. No money. I won't be giving your group of thug coaches any of my money. And í will encourage our team parents to protest your dangerous tournement. I won't be helping to pay referees who don't call the game straight. I won't put my child at risk for an injury to come down there and put them on the field and have your non soccer playing meatheads attack and assault, allow the referees who are trying to manufacture and outcome, or be attacked by crazy parents who are used to beating teams (literally) 8-0.
So I'm done with your fake soccer
I'm finished with your hockey coaches
I'm not supporting your league fund raising
And your habituated parents who need to be medicated
In the end, your crooked referees, your violent kids, your deranged coaches, and the father and son team that attacked a 68 year old man on the sidelines taking pictures, your aggression got you choked out to the ground in front of your family and team parents, our clean playing kids still beat your cheating team and referees. My hat off to Space Coast. They beat us, they beat you. They won. Their kids are better. They play clean and hard. Space Coast got a referee who wasn't comfortable with the amount of violence your players are accustomed to, called the game tight, and you lost...again...as expected.
There has to be some consequence for adult coaches who train and teach kids to hurt other kids so they can win. There has to be some consequence for a league, and referee group that endorse that level of violence, by being negligent of your duty. When your parents think that's what soccer is, and laugh when their kids deliberately injure our kids, there has to be a consequence. We won't be their next year, or ever again until you thugs clean up your act.
What í watched this weekend was violence that I've never seen in all my years of watching and participating in soccer, in California and Europe.
A coach, a team, and a group of parents who have taken a group of kids and trained them to dish out brutality, to physically punish other teams with jabs, elbows, hand pushing, lifting elbows into defender's faces to intimidate, foot stepping, fouls away from the ball, fouls after the whistle...it's obvious these kids are being trained this way, a center defender who gets beat 1:1 turns, and with arms outstretched heaves a striker onto the ground in the box, and then the center defender "dives" this can only be taught (no call from Ref). Kids don't have the instincts to do these Marco Materazzi moves. The kid wearing the captain armband, striker, lifting her forearm and elbow into the face our defenders múltiples times to manufacture space...all very dangerous (no call from Ref)
Referee. You are terrible to allow such dangerous and violent behaviour, and as a result of your loosing control of that game, it directly resulted in a physical altercation between parents whose kids were being victimized by you, the referee, allowing BYSL to play that garbage soccer.
So here's what I'm doing as a parent. Next year. No Phoenix cup. No money. I won't be giving your group of thug coaches any of my money. And í will encourage our team parents to protest your dangerous tournement. I won't be helping to pay referees who don't call the game straight. I won't put my child at risk for an injury to come down there and put them on the field and have your non soccer playing meatheads attack and assault, allow the referees who are trying to manufacture and outcome, or be attacked by crazy parents who are used to beating teams (literally) 8-0.
So I'm done with your fake soccer
I'm finished with your hockey coaches
I'm not supporting your league fund raising
And your habituated parents who need to be medicated
In the end, your crooked referees, your violent kids, your deranged coaches, and the father and son team that attacked a 68 year old man on the sidelines taking pictures, your aggression got you choked out to the ground in front of your family and team parents, our clean playing kids still beat your cheating team and referees. My hat off to Space Coast. They beat us, they beat you. They won. Their kids are better. They play clean and hard. Space Coast got a referee who wasn't comfortable with the amount of violence your players are accustomed to, called the game tight, and you lost...again...as expected.
There has to be some consequence for adult coaches who train and teach kids to hurt other kids so they can win. There has to be some consequence for a league, and referee group that endorse that level of violence, by being negligent of your duty. When your parents think that's what soccer is, and laugh when their kids deliberately injure our kids, there has to be a consequence. We won't be their next year, or ever again until you thugs clean up your act.
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