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| Sporting Dilema |
I'm a junior coach for local soccer club and I have the dilema where being a coach I have a duty of care to my players. Basically I've told these kids parents that when you drop your kids off to me I'll return them when there finished playing unharmed.
Lately I've found that when it comes to game days my team plays to how the sport is played and mainly the way I teach them which is respect the referee, don't go around pushing or abusing people because other than tackling soccer is a non-contact sport, but having one of the smallest teams in the competition I watch them get pushed around crashed into and hurt in unneccessary incidents and I just don't know what to tell them, the hard thing is that most of these incidents are being committed by better teams, it seems that these days not only the fact your a good team and win a lot but your allowed to push and abuse the opposition your playing against, isn't beating a team by a fair bit enough these days.
I encourage them to play within rules and spirit of the game they love but I'm also starting to get concerned over the ability to protect these kids from serious harm, there are teams out there I have actually considered pulling them off the pitch to protect them.
What is happening in society out there when even in kids sport kids aren't free from abuse and taunting by other kids.
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