I don't think of what he did as trash talking. It was more gamesmanship between rivals. Those little digs and insults that make people on your side laugh and people on the rival side bristle.
Its ok towards the end of the game if the player has earned respect.
You mean those times when a guy gets touched, rolls around like his ankle is broke, gets taken off the field on a stretcher, gets a squirt of water, hops up, runs back on the field and makes a play?
Refs in HS only care about trainwrecks and not fender benders. If you enforce every single instance then you would have a never ending game.
Ive actually seen way more cheap shots in HS soccer games than HS football games.You mean those times when a guy gets touched, rolls around like his ankle is broke, gets taken off the field on a stretcher, gets a squirt of water, hops up, runs back on the field and makes a play?
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Well in soccer if the ref doesn’t see it, it might as well of never happened.
My office recently went to a soccer game here in Atlanta. We were allowed to bring kids, spouses, or friends. One of my coworkers brought her 2 young boys ( 9 and 10). They took an immediate shine to the game, they insisted on buying a soccer ball. The next day they were playing in the yard and one kind of bumped the other and then said “no you are supposed to fall down when I do that”.You mean those times when a guy gets touched, rolls around like his ankle is broke, gets taken off the field on a stretcher, gets a squirt of water, hops up, runs back on the field and makes a play?
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I’ve also seen more fan brawls and fights on the field happen in HS soccer boys and girls than I have ever in Hs football.
I'm not sure what you mean by trash talk. In baseball there was usually a lot of chatter like "rag arm" and such but none of it was all that trashy.
I never have gotten why a sport (in which only the goaltender can use their hands) that consist mainly of people running around on the field chasing a soccer ball can result in so many fights. It’s not like football or hockey where you have to play with a mean streak or even basketball where fouls happen because of the contact with your arms/hands.
Because soccer has no real break in the action to cool off. Its basically one huge play that frustrations continue to build. Football has breaks in the violence and is easier to control because everyone is within a 20 yard span mostly. You mention hockey, but its the same issue just with sticks and ice.
Yeah I guess I can see that. Also a lot of cheap shots can happen, many times between players who aren’t even around the ball, to because of only one ref present. My younger brother used to play soccer and I saw it happen all the time. In foreign countries though the refs can get beaten to death if not killed especially in South America
You find those two things at all similar?
Trash talking is definitely not new and I don't think anyone is saying that. I'm just wondering why as parents of youth who participate in sports that we are so hell bent on teaching kids sportsmanship and respecting their opponents. That we then turnaround and abruptly insert a caveat saying "Well, as long as you can back it up it is completely okay not to respect your opponents and not to show good sportsmanship."
