Madison soccer team endures criticism because players have short hair

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(08-07-2017, 10:57 AM)Au165 Wrote: As a high school coach, I hate youth sports with a passion. It brings out the worst in adults.

(08-07-2017, 10:59 AM)Benton Wrote: Having spent the last year and a half on the sidelines of competitive youth soccer, this does't surprise me at all. Not about the gender, just about crappy people as parents.

You want to see some stressed out, overly involved adults yelling at children (normally telling them something completely wrong), go to a soccer game.

One girl in our club is unusually tall for her age. She looks like a 6-foot tall teenager, but she's only 11. Every team that plays hers heckles the kid or complains to the ref that they brought a high schooler. She takes it pretty hard sometimes when a 40 year old guy is telling her she should be ashamed for playing little kids.

Oh, no doubt!

When our daughter played soccer I was totally relieved that she decided to quit before going up to the next level.  Parents are awful in general when it comes to sports.  Not all of them, but enough of them!

But this thing with worrying about girls versus boys based on a haircut just reeks of 50's and 60's mentality to me.  I wouldn't be surprised to see an article about "colored" kids next.