Soccer

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 10/15/2016 at 09:49 • Filed to: Sports Parents

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Sitting next to soccer grandma. She keeps swearing under her voice. It’s a game for 8 and 9 year olds.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > f86sabre 10/15/2016 at 09:56

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Sporksing are srs bznss.

Kids have to learn not to be losers. Everyone must win. At everything. All the time. Like the Orange Rage Golem.

ttyymmnn > f86sabre 10/15/2016 at 10:39

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All three of our boys play soccer, and I have been to games where the parents of 11 and 14 year olds are some of the meanest, rudest, ugliest people you can imagine. It’s rec sports, for God’s sake. Let the kids play, cheer when they score, but stay the hell out of it.

Telumektar > f86sabre 10/15/2016 at 11:30

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I’ve been researching about adult influence in children’s play-sports for a couple of months now, in Uruguay, where football/soccer is THE number one sport for adults and children alike.

Some parents keep to themselves but there’s always someone with frustrations, pouring it all over the kids, and you only need a couple of them to taint the experience. Repeat that by 3000 matches a weekend, country-wide, and you have some nice schooling on those kids...

jvirgs drives a Subaru > f86sabre 10/15/2016 at 12:00

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I was a soccer official for 10 years (started when I was 14). the U-10 to U-12 parents were the worst. The very last game i ever worked was a U-10 game where I had to eject a parent for giving me the finger during the game.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > f86sabre 10/15/2016 at 12:41

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My little brother plays for a youth team so i go to matches somewhat regularly. Never once seen a player sent off, but parents being sent of the sidelines for bad behaviour is a regular occurence...

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > f86sabre 10/15/2016 at 15:49

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parents are nuts.

Nauraushaun > f86sabre 10/15/2016 at 18:34

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IT’S CALLED FOOTBALL *European master race intensifies*

Jk lol. Australians call it soccer too. Or sometimes European Football as a way of appeasing our sophisticated overlords

Steve > f86sabre 10/16/2016 at 13:37

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When my kids were playing I would never sit with the other parents, to many crazies.

this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata > jvirgs drives a Subaru 10/20/2016 at 22:09

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I too did some time as a rec league ref, starting in middle school. As I recall a solid third of the training was just about how to deal with psycho parents and coaches. Perfectly normal looking moms and dads screaming OFFSIDE!! at eight year olds playing bumblebee ball was an everyday occurrence. So surreal.