Champions Cup - Police reports

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I think the prize for best police reports associated with the Champions cup in Apokpa goes to the woman that threatened "teach your kid to play soccer" "I will run him over" if see him again.

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Sunday mornings parent coach confrontation was amusing to see. Dad lost his mind from space coast, I think the other team was pinecrest to be fair to nutty Colombian dad the coach pushed who must have been his kid. Embarrassing all round

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I don't understand why these people are not sanctioned or banned? People threatening kids with bodily harm? Did I read that correctly? Coaches assaulting children? What?

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I'm gonna have to support the nutty dad on this one. Go Dad.

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These people need to be sent home, coaches and parents. Why are they permitted to keep showing up? Ban them and sanction them and the problems go away. Simple...

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I witnessed the assault and the coach should be banned. If it were my kid he push. The coach would not of walked off the field he would of been rolled off and eating threw a tube.

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I witnessed the assault and the coach should be banned. If it were my kid he push. The coach would not of walked off the field he would of been rolled off and eating threw a tube.

And this escalation mentality contributes to the problem. This stuff should be firmly handled by the FYSA or the organizers. I mean serious penalties, people banned for extended periods of time. Escalation does not solve the problem though. It just makes it worse.

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Kind of like playing in a third world country.

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And this escalation mentality contributes to the problem. This stuff should be firmly handled by the FYSA or the organizers. I mean serious penalties, people banned for extended periods of time. Escalation does not solve the problem though. It just makes it worse.

I would agree, but, I've seen refs just stand there and let it happen and just give a warning. Our boys played back to back weeks in this area and I had to see with my own eyes and hear with my own ears what was being said by the other players right in front of the ref to be only verbally warned. This is what brings out the worst in parents. Heard a kid f-bomb my kid for about 2 minutes straight and ended with "Ill kick you in the f'n face next time", what did he get, a verbal warning. Saw a kid walk up to a player who just fell down and started to sit up deliver a nice knee to his head right in front of the ref, what did he get, a verbal warning. Saw a kid grab hold of a kid as the ball was going out of bounds an threw the kid to the ground, guess what, a verbal warning. And people wonder why parents lose their fricken minds sometimes. Don't get me wrong, parents can be the agitator for the whole issue. I loved hearing two different fathers walking up and down the sidelines telling there sons to kick my son in the face. I loved how they said it in spanish, as if no one understands spanish in the area. Crazy

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These people should immediately be escorted off the fields and banned from the tournament. I cannot believe we tolerate this garbage. If someone walked into my kids school and started pushing kids around, he would immediately be issued a restraining order and a security bulletin would go out. If he walked into my business and threatened to kill someone, I would have them pursued to the fullest extent of the law to protect my employees and customers. Why do we accept this on a soccer field?

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I would agree, but, I've seen refs just stand there and let it happen and just give a warning. Our boys played back to back weeks in this area and I had to see with my own eyes and hear with my own ears what was being said by the other players right in front of the ref to be only verbally warned. This is what brings out the worst in parents. Heard a kid f-bomb my kid for about 2 minutes straight and ended with "Ill kick you in the f'n face next time", what did he get, a verbal warning. Saw a kid walk up to a player who just fell down and started to sit up deliver a nice knee to his head right in front of the ref, what did he get, a verbal warning. Saw a kid grab hold of a kid as the ball was going out of bounds an threw the kid to the ground, guess what, a verbal warning. And people wonder why parents lose their fricken minds sometimes. Don't get me wrong, parents can be the agitator for the whole issue. I loved hearing two different fathers walking up and down the sidelines telling there sons to kick my son in the face. I loved how they said it in spanish, as if no one understands spanish in the area. Crazy

Kids are watching professionals do this kind of stuff every day on TV. Good Luck with the parents, but I'm not sure they are all to blame.

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These people should immediately be escorted off the fields and banned from the tournament. I cannot believe we tolerate this garbage. If someone walked into my kids school and started pushing kids around, he would immediately be issued a restraining order and a security bulletin would go out. If he walked into my business and threatened to kill someone, I would have them pursued to the fullest extent of the law to protect my employees and customers. Why do we accept this on a soccer field?

Why do you accept it? Like a hockey game. Are the fights not assaults. Same thing in the field. All you have to do is press charges.

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Why do you accept it? Like a hockey game. Are the fights not assaults. Same thing in the field. All you have to do is press charges.

I suspect the poster wants the organizations that run things to clean up these problems. I would argue that a police report has little preventative affect in the future. Plus you probably have to hang around filing out paperwork and answering questions. What I would rather see are field marshals tossing these people out, tournament directors banning people, and sanctioning bodies taking steps to clean things up. Tossing people out and banning people has a prevention component. Ban that coach for six months and i doubt this problem will occur again.

Like the poster talking about a business, what would you think of a business owner that took no steps to prevent previous perpetrators of crime on their premise? I bet Disney bans trouble makers and people who commit crimes on their property from their property. Soccer should do the same thing.

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A coach torching a player should automatically be Gone!! No questions asked! This was a minimum of assault. I was there I saw what went down and I would of hurt the dude if it were my child. I would of been the one needing to be bailed out.