Best ULittle soccer parent drama story? I might be able to beat it!

[Anonymous]

Some of these threads got me thinking back to some ridiculous drama I've seen over the years but one of my favorites to this day remains a rec soccer game for what I guess would be considered U5/6-back when things were birth year, the teams were younger kindergartners and older Pre-Kers. They play 4v4, in an elementary school back field marked by cones, with pop up goals and no goalies and no refs, just parent volunteer coaches on the fields with the kids.

No goalies, as I said, but one coach dad had one of his 4 players stand in front of the goal the whole game anyways. He didn't use his hands or anything so technically, according to the rules (lol) maybe this was allowed? Seemed boring for the kid standing there the whole game but maybe he wanted to? Bottom line is, who cares. No one, right? WRONG! Because the kid was a larger kid, the opposing team didn't end up scoring any goals since the kid was blocking the net. Not that anyone is even supposed to keep score in this game, the kids are 4 and 5 years old. But after the game the two dad coaches, plus one or two other dads, got HEATED. Screaming, the one coach accusing the other coach of cheating and using a goalie and blocking the net, the other coach screaming that it was totally legal and that's how you win games, by blocking shots. Other dads joining in debating the validity of this strategy, one mom pulling her husband back by the sleeve of his shirt and begging him to calm down. Kids all running around togehter with juice boxes and goldfish, happy as can be on the playgound, none of them giving a flying F about soccer. It was amazing to watch.

[Anonymous]

We were lucky. There was very little parent drama when DS was young. I do recall a game where I filled in as manager at u9 so I was on the bench. The coach had 2 players walk over to their dads at the half to warn them that if they kept barking orders, the coach said they’d be benched. Those dads were very quiet the rest of the season. A few years later, we had a coach who was a hot head and was thrown out of 2 games. Then at the end of the season, at a tournament, his wife heard parents from the other team discussing his behavior after he yelled at one of our players. This resulted in a heated argument as she tried to defend him but it only lasted 3-4 minutes and the other parents just watched in amusement.

[Anonymous]

When my kid was about 10 we had a really close tournament game. A kid in our team scored and the goalie punched our player during the play (which we learned about later) and then about 10 seconds after the play ended, he walked over and kicked our player in the ribs. Our player was still on the ground from the punch at the time and 10 seconds is more than long enough for everyone to have stopped moving and for everyone to see it happening.

The parents on our team were fairly vocal about wanting a red card, but also pretty low key otherwise. The other teams parents flipped out, supporting their player.

Play had to stop for 20-30 mins while the ref called his boss to ask what to do and in the end they just made all the parents leave the game to avoid any drama - ie the shuttle both teams parents off about 30 feet from the game but also stupidly pushing the parents from both teams closer to each other.

Our team just wanted to forfeit and leave rather than deal with all the psychos, but the ref ended up re starting the game finally and we played out the last few minutes left after the 20 minutes of game time got skipped. At the end, the coach of the violent kid was yelling at the ref becasue he wanted all the time added back to the clock where the ref had been calling people to get help on what to do

In the end i think they gave a yellow card. Or maybe no card.

This was a travel team, but the third team so it was little kids with nothing at all at stake.

[Anonymous]

Ulittle

You are all part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my kid was about 10 we had a really close tournament game. A kid in our team scored and the goalie punched our player during the play (which we learned about later) and then about 10 seconds after the play ended, he walked over and kicked our player in the ribs. Our player was still on the ground from the punch at the time and 10 seconds is more than long enough for everyone to have stopped moving and for everyone to see it happening.

The parents on our team were fairly vocal about wanting a red card, but also pretty low key otherwise. The other teams parents flipped out, supporting their player.

Play had to stop for 20-30 mins while the ref called his boss to ask what to do and in the end they just made all the parents leave the game to avoid any drama - ie the shuttle both teams parents off about 30 feet from the game but also stupidly pushing the parents from both teams closer to each other.

Our team just wanted to forfeit and leave rather than deal with all the psychos, but the ref ended up re starting the game finally and we played out the last few minutes left after the 20 minutes of game time got skipped. At the end, the coach of the violent kid was yelling at the ref becasue he wanted all the time added back to the clock where the ref had been calling people to get help on what to do

In the end i think they gave a yellow card. Or maybe no card.

This was a travel team, but the third team so it was little kids with nothing at all at stake.

How can parents support their 10 year old kid kicking someone in the ribs as they're lying down hurt on the ground? I mean let's eliminate soccer from the equation entirely. That's horrible. I'm so sorry that happened to your kid!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ulittle

You are all part of the problem.

Are little kids not supposed to play soccer? What does this mean? U Little is a term that encompasses tiny kids (like, too young for any kind of travel program little) up through I'd say U10. It sounds stupid to say U5 soccer or U6 soccer. It's all the same. Little kids. U Little.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my kid was about 10 we had a really close tournament game. A kid in our team scored and the goalie punched our player during the play (which we learned about later) and then about 10 seconds after the play ended, he walked over and kicked our player in the ribs. Our player was still on the ground from the punch at the time and 10 seconds is more than long enough for everyone to have stopped moving and for everyone to see it happening.

The parents on our team were fairly vocal about wanting a red card, but also pretty low key otherwise. The other teams parents flipped out, supporting their player.

Play had to stop for 20-30 mins while the ref called his boss to ask what to do and in the end they just made all the parents leave the game to avoid any drama - ie the shuttle both teams parents off about 30 feet from the game but also stupidly pushing the parents from both teams closer to each other.

Our team just wanted to forfeit and leave rather than deal with all the psychos, but the ref ended up re starting the game finally and we played out the last few minutes left after the 20 minutes of game time got skipped. At the end, the coach of the violent kid was yelling at the ref becasue he wanted all the time added back to the clock where the ref had been calling people to get help on what to do

In the end i think they gave a yellow card. Or maybe no card.

This was a travel team, but the third team so it was little kids with nothing at all at stake.

Was this at the Arlington tournament?

[Anonymous]

Friends of ours found themselves unknowingly on a team with a few polyamorous couples. By season end two of the husbands fought in the parking lot of the hotel at an away tournament. Charges were filed.

[Anonymous]

Low level 2016 travel team played at 2013 in a tournament to try to make bottom bracket finals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ulittle

You are all part of the problem.

Are little kids not supposed to play soccer? What does this mean? U Little is a term that encompasses tiny kids (like, too young for any kind of travel program little) up through I'd say U10. It sounds stupid to say U5 soccer or U6 soccer. It's all the same. Little kids. U Little.

Yep, random anon poster is angry for no reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ulittle

You are all part of the problem.

Are little kids not supposed to play soccer? What does this mean? U Little is a term that encompasses tiny kids (like, too young for any kind of travel program little) up through I'd say U10. It sounds stupid to say U5 soccer or U6 soccer. It's all the same. Little kids. U Little.

Yep, random anon poster is angry for no reason.

I hate everything!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of these threads got me thinking back to some ridiculous drama I've seen over the years but one of my favorites to this day remains a rec soccer game for what I guess would be considered U5/6-back when things were birth year, the teams were younger kindergartners and older Pre-Kers. They play 4v4, in an elementary school back field marked by cones, with pop up goals and no goalies and no refs, just parent volunteer coaches on the fields with the kids.

No goalies, as I said, but one coach dad had one of his 4 players stand in front of the goal the whole game anyways. He didn't use his hands or anything so technically, according to the rules (lol) maybe this was allowed? Seemed boring for the kid standing there the whole game but maybe he wanted to? Bottom line is, who cares. No one, right? WRONG! Because the kid was a larger kid, the opposing team didn't end up scoring any goals since the kid was blocking the net. Not that anyone is even supposed to keep score in this game, the kids are 4 and 5 years old. But after the game the two dad coaches, plus one or two other dads, got HEATED. Screaming, the one coach accusing the other coach of cheating and using a goalie and blocking the net, the other coach screaming that it was totally legal and that's how you win games, by blocking shots. Other dads joining in debating the validity of this strategy, one mom pulling her husband back by the sleeve of his shirt and begging him to calm down. Kids all running around togehter with juice boxes and goldfish, happy as can be on the playgound, none of them giving a flying F about soccer. It was amazing to watch.

Similar-ish experience except as the coach and IIRC it was 4 v 4, no goalkeepers but there was an arc in front of the goal in which nobody could defend within. Me and my assistant were taught the concept of height, width and depth all season and therefore with with a diamond, and these were girls so, no offense boys, the girls understood this and were able to keep their shape. A parent of another team accused us of having someone block the goal the whole time but of course that douche doesn't understand basic soccer spacing and also was bitter because our team was destroying their team and only needed one or two of our diamond to penetrate the mess-ball of his kids team--we didn't need all four kids or have all four kids attacking at once and leaving the defensive half of the field exposed. So anytime we lost the ball and they transitioned our depth player was already in position where she should have been.

[Anonymous]

How about in U9 when a parent from the other team that happened to also be a board member at OUR club ran onto the field to grab a child from OUR team following yellow card-less little kid scuffle???

Then when one of our parents rightly confronted him for 1. Being on the field and 2. Grabbing a child that wasn't his own, he pushed the grown man too, confirming that he was completely out of control and had initially ran on the field in a fit of rage lay hands on an 8 year old!

What did our club do about it? You guessed it. NOTHING!!! Apparently this individual had some mysterious currency with the club that has still never been explained.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about in U9 when a parent from the other team that happened to also be a board member at OUR club ran onto the field to grab a child from OUR team following yellow card-less little kid scuffle???

Then when one of our parents rightly confronted him for 1. Being on the field and 2. Grabbing a child that wasn't his own, he pushed the grown man too, confirming that he was completely out of control and had initially ran on the field in a fit of rage lay hands on an 8 year old!

What did our club do about it? You guessed it. NOTHING!!! Apparently this individual had some mysterious currency with the club that has still never been explained.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of these threads got me thinking back to some ridiculous drama I've seen over the years but one of my favorites to this day remains a rec soccer game for what I guess would be considered U5/6-back when things were birth year, the teams were younger kindergartners and older Pre-Kers. They play 4v4, in an elementary school back field marked by cones, with pop up goals and no goalies and no refs, just parent volunteer coaches on the fields with the kids.

No goalies, as I said, but one coach dad had one of his 4 players stand in front of the goal the whole game anyways. He didn't use his hands or anything so technically, according to the rules (lol) maybe this was allowed? Seemed boring for the kid standing there the whole game but maybe he wanted to? Bottom line is, who cares. No one, right? WRONG! Because the kid was a larger kid, the opposing team didn't end up scoring any goals since the kid was blocking the net. Not that anyone is even supposed to keep score in this game, the kids are 4 and 5 years old. But after the game the two dad coaches, plus one or two other dads, got HEATED. Screaming, the one coach accusing the other coach of cheating and using a goalie and blocking the net, the other coach screaming that it was totally legal and that's how you win games, by blocking shots. Other dads joining in debating the validity of this strategy, one mom pulling her husband back by the sleeve of his shirt and begging him to calm down. Kids all running around togehter with juice boxes and goldfish, happy as can be on the playgound, none of them giving a flying F about soccer. It was amazing to watch.

Similar-ish experience except as the coach and IIRC it was 4 v 4, no goalkeepers but there was an arc in front of the goal in which nobody could defend within. Me and my assistant were taught the concept of height, width and depth all season and therefore with with a diamond, and these were girls so, no offense boys, the girls understood this and were able to keep their shape. A parent of another team accused us of having someone block the goal the whole time but of course that douche doesn't understand basic soccer spacing and also was bitter because our team was destroying their team and only needed one or two of our diamond to penetrate the mess-ball of his kids team--we didn't need all four kids or have all four kids attacking at once and leaving the defensive half of the field exposed. So anytime we lost the ball and they transitioned our depth player was already in position where she should have been.

To be fair, 4-5 year old kids shouldn’t be focusing on field positioning they should be focusing on getting their foot on the ball, beating out opponents in going for the ball, and practicing dribbling and shooting in a game environment. They shouldn’t be making formations or keeping a kid back on defense, unless your aim is to win a 5yo kids soccer game as opposed to develop players .

Any arguing about another teams “strategy” is totally dumb though. I will give you that for sure.