This is more of vent than an advice thread. My son who is 6 (7 next month) plays for an under 9 competitive club soccer team. He is the youngest and smallest on the team but by no means the worst, in fact he's one of the best (ok bragging over).We had a tournament this weekend which included 4 games over 2 days. Because of the weather Friday night, games from other age groups were postponed to Saturday which changed our game schedule. It changed the time of our games which was fine but it also changed the length of the game. Instead of 2 20 minute halves with a ten minute break for halftime, they switched the games to having no halftime break. So 40 minute straight games.Due to other circumstances, 4 of our kids couldn't make the tournament which left us with no substitutes for the whole game which was now 40 minutes straight. And it was hot. The officials stated there was no time for water breaks. So needless to say our boys were dead the last ten minutes of the game. All the other team had a full bench allowing them to sub in all their players every five minutes, giving them breaks and water.Now I didn't really care if they won. They won their first games each day but were usually too tried to give 100% for the second game, especially towards the end. Most of us recognized it and just cheered them on, being positive. Even our last game today the other teams parents were cheering them on and their coach instructed the other team to take it easy on us as they were winning like 8-2.Now today my be the tipping point for me. There is two dad's and one of their wives who are yelling the entire time, both in different languages other than English. The husband and wife were yelling at their son so much he started to cry and yelled at them to shut up. It made me so sad and mad. We all immediately started cheering him on and everytime he touched the ball we cheered. It was so embarrassing. The other dad thinks his son is Ronaldo reincarnate. He is good, our best attacker but no where near good enough to carry the team like he thinks. He pulls the other kids in the team over and tells them to pass to his son. Constantly. Other player gets the ball across the field? Pass! Pass! Pass! Son gets the ball. Dribble! Dribble! SHOOT SHOOOT GET HIM THE BALL!! WHAT ARE YIU DOING?? PASS HIM THE BALL!! The coach had reminded him he's the coach, not him, numerous times. He shuts up for a few minutes after that. But that's it.We were winning a game the other day like 9-1. He did not let down that intensity. I told him jokingly, " I think we can let the other kids get the ball, we're crushing them." It did not compute. He's like that in practice too. Fucking practice. The God damn referee had to tell him to be quiet yesterday because the kids can't hear the whistle. So embarrassing.Last week the coach came over to us after a game. He said that he received a warning from the youth league about the parents etiquette. Next warning is a fine and the next would be kicked out of the league. I was dumbfounded but I knew exactly why. The problematic parents were surprised which also dumbfounded me.I'm not really adding for advice, the season is over until the fall. I just needed to vent. I feel like we are being labeled as the loud, Annoying team. I'm going to reach out the volunteer parent manager. It's crazy. These are kids! via /r/Parenting http://bit.ly/2MpJafF
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