[Secret Squirrel]

...The Pussification of America.

This is probably what I'll end up doing in 5 years when my daughter is 6...

SCITUATE, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts youth soccer coach told parents in an e-mail his team of 6- and 7-year-old girls would be known as "Green Death," encouraged them to feed their daughters "undercooked red meat" and said "losing is for losers."

Coach Michael Kinahan has since resigned from the Scituate (SIH'-choo-et) Youth Soccer League. He says he was joking in last week's season-opening e-mail.

League official Chris Park tells the Patriot Ledger of Quincy that Kinahan has a "wry, sarcastic" sense of humor and some parents understood the e-mail's tone. But others didn't and complained.

Kinahan also wrote he would heckle referees, expected players to "bleed a little" and wanted parents to cheer, not sit on the sidelines "sipping mocha-latte-half-caf-chinos."

6 and 7 year old girls' soccer games are basically a social gathering where no one wants to fall down, they braid each others hair (even members of the opposing team!!) and look for four leaf clovers...all under the auspices of kinda sorta maybe kicking a soccer ball in a random direction every 3 or 4 minutes...

Now if this was the 15U Boys' team aiming for a national spot...then you might have to be a little worried...

What's that you say...double standard...you damn skippy.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Can't tell the players without a scorecard. He might be an asshat or he might be OK. That said, the blood and guts kill the opposition harass the ref approach with similar fan behavior is stupid and inappropriate - see European soccer matches for example.

 

[jerseydirt]

The coach should have called the parents who complained to a meeting and made them take a lap or ten.

 

[maddog17]

friggin people have no sense of humor. and they wonder why they have a hard time finding coaches.