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My daughter plays U12 A league and by KnightlyRevue
we finished runner up at the USA Gold Cup in Minnesota this past summer. We have been fortunate to have a club and a team full of genuinely good kids who love to play together but the craziness is very real and its all the adults.
We played the #1 team from Kansas in the final whose parents cheered against our girls and trash talked almost the entire game from the beginning whistle. For 12 year olds...let that sink in. My daughter was so confused by it as a parent looked at her and said "Hey #7...you got nothin. You can't hang with our girls." Big surprise...their girls yapped the whole game. These are the values being taught. It makes one shake the head.