When did you play?
I believe BA realized giving Greenwood direct access to their best players wasn’t going to end well for the Express.
I was 7 years old in '76 when I started playing. Back then and into the early 80's was the time period I was referencing. That may be the time that BA wants to return to. Some parents(grandparents) have long memories.
Good luck. Ain't happening. BA has always seemed a bit off to me in terms of how they carry themselves.
Red card to parent ? I’m not giving anything to the girl other than telling her to knock it off. Parents have zero business talking to players…ever
SG Navy is a legit team. No shame is losing 5-0. They would finish top half Texas league. From multiple people…u guys are improved from last year.
I might not have the right impression, but I didn't get the feeling that this was a pattern for the player, or that it had even happened twice. A yellow card would be suspect in this situation. A red card is not even appropriate.
Kids say things in the heat of competition. Talk to the kid and let her know any further cursing will result in a card. I do tend to be very pro player though
...AND a warning for the parent that they will be kicked out of the game if they repeat their behavior.
I like how you don't define who the parent was.
Your daughter must have found a really deep, dark blue in her chirp back! 
I would have pulled out my sapphire blue credit card on her.Wasn’t it two yellows which equals a red? First for F bombing the opponent then F bombing the parents when they chirped at her for the first F bomb? I personally would have just given a yellow but I can see how the official viewed it as two separate infractions. Like I said above…give the players a little leeway for what they say during the heat of play. Directing an F bomb at someone on the field or sideline will almost always result in a card from my experience
I like how you don't define who the parent was.
Gotcha . I was just relaying what several of the parents who were on the sideline had told me. Like I told me daughter when she started ECNL play after she got a yellow and had to come out of the game. The game is very physical. Girls will get under your skin even to the extent you might believe they are being dirty. Take care of it with your play. They are all learning about what competitive soccer is at this point. Good luck today against KCA. Cheering for you guys
That’s a fantastic result for your girls against a quality team. FC Dallas and Sting Royal in town in two weeks to kick off league
Where / who they play? To be fair, other than the 13s who are really good, they are basically fielding rec plus teams at the moment in the competitive ages
Agree. We need ONE top level competitive club in the Tulsa market. That club needs to keep the best girls playing local and not in Dallas, OKC or KC. I just don’t see that in the cards in the foreseeable future. ECNL will give WSA some time to develop their program but not forever. I’m not terribly optimistic.
I agree.
They want to recreate the glory days but they don't want to have kids paying for it. Their whole premise is competitive soccer at rec soccer fees and think they can draw in kids who can play whose parents don't want to pay a year's worth of private college tuition for their kid to play soccer. They're told it's competitive soccer and that's all they need to know. Problem is most of these kids are being coached by Rec+ coaches at best (not all, there are a few who are good coaches who don't want to deal with the admins at TSC or Blitz or WSA). The quality of play is not very good overall. And they don't necessarily do the right thing by the players all the time. I know there is a U14 girl playing on a boys team out there. She always played on the boys teams pre 11v11 when she was typically bigger and faster than most of the boys. But that's about to change and I, for the life of me, cannot figure out why Express won't tell the girl, her parents, and her coach that she needs to move to one of the girls' teams where personally, I think she would be a dominant presence on their back line (she's a defender and really pretty good...if she moved to one of the bigger clubs, I think she'd really blossom into an excellent player).
Depends on what was said. And removing the parent from the sideline would also be appropriate. For me, it is never appropriate for a parent (or even an opposing coach) to address a player that is not yours. Hell, we had a BA Express coach shove one of my son's teammates at Blitz during a shoving scrum after a brutal foul by an Express player. 5 reds in this game, one to the coach for the shove. (This is the infamous game where the ref told both teams at half time that if you touch another player he was likely calling it a foul because the temp of the game ad risen during the first half and you could see it getting ready to boil over. Ref did a great job trying to keep things cool and this last play occurred with about 4 minutes left, Blitz winning 1-0 and really doing a good job of keeping the ball away from Express...and an Express player just had enough).
Refs understand the difference between cursing at themselves for screwing something up or a poor play and a player cursing another player. Again it depends on what they said. If they say something along the lines of "Shut the f--- up" then yeah, I'm probably pulling them aside, telling them to watch the language directed at others, and to also let them know I'll handle the parent situation. Right now, the only way to handle that situation on the parent is to tell the coach to handle it and if he refuses, he gets a yellow card. Here's what I know about most coaches....they don't want to get a red card for one of their dumb a$$ parents.
Suburban St. Louis parents = Edmond parents in terms of entitlement
A foul is a foul. Just because someone doesn't end up on the ground does it mean it's not a foul. Just means I might let play go for a couple more seconds to see if the player is able to fully recover and continue their possession/attack. The number of clumsy fouls I've called against a defender flailing at the ball and catching a girl in the shin guard (everyone can hear the crack) causing the attacker to lose the ball despite the attacker not going to ground is too many to count. Coaches and parents always yell about it.
My son did a couple of the NEOFC RL games as an AR. He was frustrated with the NEOFC parents who apparently didn't understand that offside was determined by the 2nd to last defender and not just by the defender closest to the attacker they thought was offside.