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[–] 109 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

"Ball so hard motherfuckers wanna fine me"

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  • [–] 273 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Ok so, sure, other parents seem to have escalated things in a dumb way, but... for the rest of his life, this kid can say "I was so good at soccer they called the police on me... when I was 3."

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Edit: Body cam footage was released:

    Upon arrival, police met with someone from the soccer league who made the call to police requesting that the family be asked to leave the area in which the soccer games were being played.

    [H]e said the 3-year-old was allegedly pushing other players, so he told the child and the parents that no pushing was allowed.

    The man said the child's parents became irritated and caused a "big scene, arguing with the other parents," according to the body-camera video.

    "I just want them out, immediately," he said.

    Police said that because the games were being played in a public park, they could not be forced to leave, but that they would meet with the family to figure out what was going on.

    The league official said that the mother was live-streaming their interactions, and that's why he walked away from the family. The officers made their way to the other side of the field where the family was.

    When officers made contact with the family, the mother said they were just confused and didn't understand why her child was being removed from the soccer games and why they were being asked to leave the park.

    https://www.wesh.com/article/winter-park-police-soccer-game-dispute-players-parents/74248881

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  • [–] 91 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    The episode has prompted online discussion about age-group rules, competitive balance in recreational youth leagues

    Looks like some people are trying to defend this by arguing that kids are there to just have fun, not being outplayed. Which still completely ignores the fact, the the 3yo also was just having fun.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    I've been going to my sister's kids' games since they started and there's ALWAYS a huge skill disparity in the younger games. And honestly it's just one thing that seems to click and instantly make twice as good: predicting where the ball will go.

    Kids that age ball chase because they have no idea what's going to happen next. They will literally stop and wait for an opposing player to make their move before deciding what to do.

    It's exceedingly frustrating to watch but also really funny to see a whole field pause to watch a player do some tippy taps before kicking the ball straight into the feet of another.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Under 5 years old, an age difference of 2+ months can already be a major advantage in any sport that requires coordination, dexterity, anticipation, and agility without even considering raw talent. There's a documented phenomenon where leagues that start splitting kids into skill levels at a young age are split predominantly based on the proximity of the month the kids were born to the age cutoff. Being older is already a massive advantage around then because their brains and bodies are developing rapidly and a few extra months of development has a lot of effect on their cognitive and physical abilities, and their height and weight.

    This kid may be an outlier in raw skill. But honestly that also may even out considerably as other kids' motor skills develop. This shit is temporary and part of playing sports in this age range. All of the people involved need to just chill out and watch the kids play whether they are killing it or chasing the ball.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    That's true about age differences being much more significant when they're young. And I remember reading about the disproportionate amount of January and February birthdays in hockey leagues of the 90s/2000s so that other part tracks, too.

    We're on the same page about the rest. And (aside from foot coordination) it's not a steady skill increase, it happens in big steps as ideas click for them. The worst player in the team can become the best overnight at that age lol

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    My 9 year-old's team played soccer against a team of giants. They had 3 kids at least a foot taller who manhandled them and could kick the length of the field and score. It wasn't fun and we were annoyed, but we didn't call the police.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 weeks ago

    12-15 years from now we may start to hear of an up and comer in the soccer leagues, and someone will rediscover his early roots.

    just kidding. we'll have destroyed ourselves long before this delightful and skillful little boys dreams come true.

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  • [–] 140 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

    My neighbor called the police when my dog chased their cat...in my backyard. I got off with a warning.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

    Were they at least told to keep their cat inside? Or on their own property?!?

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  • [+] 44 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
  • [–] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Obviously I don’t know the specifics of this situation, but if a cat jumps into a fenced yard with a dog and gets chased, that seems pretty unfair since the dog owner is being responsible. But maybe that wasn’t the case here.

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  • [+] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)
  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (-1 children)

    Not about your specific situation, but Cats can definitely kill hens. I used to live on a small farm and we had issues with some wild cats.

    Lots of other issues with other predators, but it’s entirely possible, especially at night.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (-1 children)

    Maybe you like, don’t let the cat wander free?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (-1 children)

    Allowing cats to free roam is a ecological disaster, but sure

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (-1 children)

    Whataboutism at its finest.

    Doesn’t matter what wild animals do. Your domesticated animal should not be allowed to kill indiscriminately. What you see the cat bring back isn’t the full total of its destruction.

    Your cat will also push out other predators and has no need to compete for resources with wild animals.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (-1 children)

    Strip mines? Highways? What?

    I’m not sure what you are going for? If I am reading this correctly, you are saying farm cause strip mines?

    Yeah… not going to debate this with you if you are spouting nonsense

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (-1 children)

    So Strawman or whataboutism (too tired to decide which one of those). Your debating techniques need some work, my friend.

    How do you know I haven’t addressed these things in my life?

    Either way, the best one can realistically do is to minimize harm. I don’t think allowing your cat out is minimizing harm. In fact, since you are actively choosing it, I would argue that it is worse than secondary or tertiary knock on effects. It might not have the same level of impact, but you are vehemently defending it. That’s much worse on my opinion

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (-1 children)

    Your example of the calamity of the fly and spider can be applied broadly to other scenarios like strip mining. Same with you can’t save them all. You are being hypocritical.

    Dude, cats don’t know if you just keep them inside. You are actively choosing to hurt animals around you, that’s callous and selfish. Cats aren’t more important than other animals (I’d argue that non-native cats are lesser than native local animals).

    Your argument is basically you bending logic, facts, etc to suit your point of view. Don’t be so entrenched.

    Anyway, this is my last reply because you are behaving irrationally. It’s not that you won, it’s that I don’t care about someone who is so callous to animals.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    Cats are free to roam here. He wasn't a nice guy to begin with. He was renting and I own so...problem solved.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    He was renting and I own

    what does this have to do with anything?

    tenants have just as much rights in their homes as anyone else

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    He moved, I didn't.

    He was temporary, I was permanent.

    The "problem" solved itself.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    We have several of those temporary neighbors here, too. I wish the one next to me was a renter. Or, maybe I don't. I suppose having a new neighbor every year or so has it's downsides, too. You never know what you're going to get. Although, rent is so high now, renters pay more than most owners pay on their mortgages here. In my case, renting a house here is double what I pay in mortgage.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    they really shouldnt, cats on the outside are likely to live shorter lives than indoor cats.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago

    This is a VERY rural area. Population 3.000.

    When my "outside" cat passed (cancer), the vet had 17 years of medical history on him.

    I live next to a highway. That cat would cross the highway to get mice in the field.

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  • [–] 93 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    I'm the one who called the cops. You guys don't understand just how good this toddler is, someone had to do something

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  • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Don't you know about cops killing black people though. They could have showed up and thought that little 3 year old boy was going to kick a soccer ball at them.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Messi was like that when he was an adolescent. Theres video of him just tearing it up as the smallest kid in the game

    The future looks bright for little Nevada

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  • [–] 36 points 2 weeks ago

    Hello 911 what's your emergency?

    ...

    Yeah we're not going to attend that.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago

    they realy just dint want a black kid make a white kid look bad, plus racist parents.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

    Are people really that stupid in the usa?

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  • [–] 70 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    They voted for trump didn't they ? Twice. There's your answer.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    The article makes it (slightly) less bad. 3 year old was kicked out of a 5 year old league for being too good and ruining competitive balance. The kid's parents took it badly and would not leave until police intervened.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Most team sports don't ban star players

    Although i have seen a show called Ted Lasso where the coach put him on the bench for hogging the ball.

    The article says multiple substitutions. Wonder what the coach's role was in the whole thing.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Most youth leagues dont do substitutions like pros do, they swap out every quarter or so. The goal is to have the kids play about equally, or else parents lose their shit that their kid sat on the bench the whole game.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    It’s a toddler fun league. The league has specific rules about it not being competitive and sharing play time.

    The kids parents are wannabe influencers filming everything for TikTok.

    Nobody called the cops on a kid for being too good. They called the cops on the parents because they were asked to leave over their stupid social media stunts, and then they refused.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago
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    If too good is an offense, then technically they could've called the police for someone being too stupid.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Cop could have just said "Are you for real? Did you really waste police resources on this?"

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    They trespassed the kid, so the police had no choice but to escort him out. Which absolutely is a waste of police resources, but is also perfectly legal and follows the process.

    In more reasonable countries, nobody can trespass you from a football field, unless you give them a very good reason like repeated physical assault.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Who trespassed the kid? Like I know it says "the league" but the league obviously didn't have any meeting or come to a consensus in time to make that decision.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    The other parents repeatedly complained about their kid not being able to participate in the make-believe form of a soccer played at age 3/4/5

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    How would they have the authority to file a trespass in a league game? It would have to be a league representative, wouldn't it?

    Otherwise parents in that league should just file trespasses against the opposing team to get a win every match.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    And followed up with a ticket. This happened at work when some teen tried to fax and couldnt figure out dialing out over 9 or 1. Somehow faxed 9911Xxxxxx so the fax called the police. They showed up and fined us for the waste of time.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    The article is down. Threadiverse death hug?

    A family says police escorted them and their 3-year-old son off an i9 Sports youth soccer field in Winter Park after the league issued a trespass, following complaints from opposing parents that the boy held the ball too much and was “trying to put on a show.”

    The incident, captured in video the family posted to TikTok under the handle @nevadaney10 and later shared widely, shows the child — identified by his parents as Nevada — playing in a league with kids roughly two years older. According to the family’s accounts in the video and related posts, he dominated possession, was substituted multiple times in a roughly 30-minute game, and still scored multiple goals (the family cited 10 in one game). Opposing parents are heard complaining that the play was unfair.

    “They really called the police on a 3 year old because he had the ball too much,” the father said in the circulating video. The mother is heard responding to parents gathered nearby: “Those grown ups huddled up talking about my son… but he ain’t doing nothing but playing soccer.”

    The family states that the league banned them from the field via a trespass notice and that officers then escorted them away in front of the other children. They say they later received a refund for the 2026 fall soccer league registration. The original video notes that the game was being live-streamed on TikTok, so other viewers saw the sequence in real time.

    Police called on 3 year old Black boy—for being "too good" at soccer.

    Officers escorted his family away in front of all the other kids.

    After league had them tresspassed from the field.

    “They really called the police on a 3 year old because he had the ball too much," dad said.… pic.twitter.com/kqIn2PIDF5

    — LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 (@LongTimeHistory) October 25, 2026

    Nevada has previously drawn attention online for skill clips and goal highlights posted by the same account, with some videos circulating on accounts such as House of Highlights and ESPN FC. Family posts describe a pattern of the 3-year-old excelling against older children in the league, which they say prompted repeated complaints about fairness.

    i9 Sports, which operates youth leagues, camps, and clinics for children ages 3 and up in sports including soccer, has not issued a public statement on the incident. Local police have also not released information confirming details of any call or escort. The family’s video and posts remain the primary public record of what occurred.

    The episode has prompted online discussion about age-group rules, competitive balance in recreational youth leagues, and the decision to involve law enforcement at a game involving a preschool-aged player.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Where was the coach for this game? Why weren't people talking to him about a solution?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    The 'coach' is probably a volunteer (or more likely a voluntold) with no training or authority if it is anything like what goes on around me. Where I am, they'd be lucky if the coach has played soccer before.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

    Wow, those other parents are total pieces of shit.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    They are, but it’s not just them

    The whole system complied. On a kid younger than them

    I can’t say I’m surprised either

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  • [+] -6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

    If my kid was playing with baby Messi? I would still want them to have a chance to play. This is fucking kids soccer - there’s no money on it. Good for the kid at being a god, but my kid can’t get good if she doesn’t have a chance to play.

    Edit: calling the cops was wrong. I cannot believe anybody thought that was a good idea.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    So you’re fine with this? Just to clarify?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    No. Full stop. That was potentially deadly and scary and stupid and an unbelievable overreaction. I am fully against what they did. I can’t believe these dipshit parents couldn’t talk to the coach or that kid’s parents fucking mystifies me.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    we all know that playing against people of the same level makes you better...... You are just teaching your kid to find the shallowest pool to play in. How dare they be exposed to the idea that someone is better and maybe this is just all for learning.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    Kid was playing against other kids 2 years older. I dare say they learned. And again, bringing cops into was beyond anything imaginable and wrong. But this should’ve been a learning opportunity, not “hey, let’s endanger a kid for playing soccer while black.”

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