Team Gold Week 4 still undefeated. And more.

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It was a great game and possibly the worst game I've been at as a Father and coach.
First the soccer.

Team Gold went down one goal early and then took it to Team Pink for the rest of the game.
Carly scored a nice one, as did Rachel and Claire and The Gab-ster got serious and popped in Four! Charlie G had 4 assists and 1600 shots on net but came up empty again.
A very intense match indeed.

Now the bad.
In the first 5 minutes of the game the other coach went ballistic over something and started screaming at Coach Marc and I. We really had no idea what he was on about but whatever it was it was a misunderstanding.
Marc and I began to apologize but he wouldn't listen and then he got furious and stormed onto the field.
I felt he had yelled at us enough and I went out to tell him so.
I won't go into too many gory details but at some point he and I were nose to nose yelling at the top of our lungs at each other. It was very surreal.
Remember this was at the 5 minute mark of the game. He really went way off the rails.

I was told after the game by parents from the other team that he was totally in the wrong but I felt I still shouldn't have gotten into it with him.
It was pretty embarrassing.
All of a sudden I was one of those dad/coaches that is freaking out at some other idiot at a children's sporting event. What a couple of asses.
I approached him after the game and extended an apology for what had transpired. I never received one in return even though he began the whole thing by freaking out and screaming at us at the top of his lungs.
Oh well at least I knew I was wrong. No excuses.

I will say the fact that we won 7-5 made making an arse-hole out of myself a little easier to take.

Category: Soccer Coaching

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