G03 game today. This is all second-hand info from my wife. MF from our team rips a shot to clear the ball. Player from the other team trying to block the shot takes the ball on the side of the head at VERY CLOSE range according to my wife. Girl goes down immediately and doesn't get up. Play continues. Our coach yells at the ref to halt the game and CR stops play. Our coach/their coach/refs are all around the player. Player remains on the ground for a few minutes. Appears to be KO'd. Finally gets up and instead of walking her directly off the field they take the long route behind the goal to get her off the field sooner to resume play quicker I presume. (My wife tells me she knows if I was there I would've walked onto the field to try and assist..performed an assessment and most likely would've called 911 due to the mechanism of injury. 20+yrs in public safety in case you're wondering.)
The player is sitting on her team's bench and obviously altered by the way she is holding herself..or rather the lack thereof. Not sure how much time left in the second half. She says she sees someone on their phone and figures they're dialing 911. 10+mins pass. No FD arrives. After the game my DD's team shakes hands and they walk over to the bench to check on her as well and my kid tells me later that this girls looks altered. She's had her own concussion so she's speaking from experience.
I use a little google-fu and find the team's info. I decide to call their Team Mgr. and give my .02 Maybe it was none of my business. Who knows. But based on what my wife is telling me and her telling me what she knows I would've done if I was there this girl needs ALS. No answer. Left a v-mail suggesting they need to call 911 to be safe. Game ends. She calls me back. Still no FD response. I decide to call the coach and leave him a message too. No answer. I leave a message. Getting ready for work. I see a missed call by the number I called. I call back asking if this is the coach for HUA FC (not their real name). He says yes and starts by saying he doesn't appreciate my attititude on the v-mail..I stop him right there and tell him I don't really care if he appreciates it or not. Why hasn't anyone called 911?! I explain what my wife has told me and my experience. We go back n forth and I finally tell him we aren't getting anywhere. And I'm gonna just let it go. He says she thinks she probably has a concussion. YOU THINK?!?! Parents were there too. They said they would take her and go get checked out he said. I told him good luck and I hope the kid ends up ok.
Who is responsible at the time of the incident to make the decision to call 911. The ref. The coach. The parent. The bystander assisting who is trained. I'm tempted to email CalSouth regarding the ref and even that club DOC about their coach. Is this going too far??
My wife says I probably wouldn't have even let her up off the field. Another parent from our team sent me a text saying it looked really bad out there and the girl appeared to be in bad shape.
So much for looking out for the safety and best interest of the players...
The player is sitting on her team's bench and obviously altered by the way she is holding herself..or rather the lack thereof. Not sure how much time left in the second half. She says she sees someone on their phone and figures they're dialing 911. 10+mins pass. No FD arrives. After the game my DD's team shakes hands and they walk over to the bench to check on her as well and my kid tells me later that this girls looks altered. She's had her own concussion so she's speaking from experience.
I use a little google-fu and find the team's info. I decide to call their Team Mgr. and give my .02 Maybe it was none of my business. Who knows. But based on what my wife is telling me and her telling me what she knows I would've done if I was there this girl needs ALS. No answer. Left a v-mail suggesting they need to call 911 to be safe. Game ends. She calls me back. Still no FD response. I decide to call the coach and leave him a message too. No answer. I leave a message. Getting ready for work. I see a missed call by the number I called. I call back asking if this is the coach for HUA FC (not their real name). He says yes and starts by saying he doesn't appreciate my attititude on the v-mail..I stop him right there and tell him I don't really care if he appreciates it or not. Why hasn't anyone called 911?! I explain what my wife has told me and my experience. We go back n forth and I finally tell him we aren't getting anywhere. And I'm gonna just let it go. He says she thinks she probably has a concussion. YOU THINK?!?! Parents were there too. They said they would take her and go get checked out he said. I told him good luck and I hope the kid ends up ok.
Who is responsible at the time of the incident to make the decision to call 911. The ref. The coach. The parent. The bystander assisting who is trained. I'm tempted to email CalSouth regarding the ref and even that club DOC about their coach. Is this going too far??
My wife says I probably wouldn't have even let her up off the field. Another parent from our team sent me a text saying it looked really bad out there and the girl appeared to be in bad shape.
So much for looking out for the safety and best interest of the players...