“Hard” is doing a lot of work there.
If a business cant exist without illegal immigrant labor multiple groups are being exploited. Citizens wages are being exploited via lower rates paid to illegals. In general citizens social services networks are being exploited because taxes arent being paid on wages. Illegals are being exploited because they have no other options to make money. The exploitation part comes in because illegals wouldn't choose to make less money than citizens if they had other options.
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A lot of work? Grace, there are jersey grabs to slow and there are jersey grabs to stop. We all know them when we see them.
If a team knows that their opponent is going to grab players jerseys why let the jerseys be grab-able?
It goes the other way too. AYSO ref is recognized by Cal South.
I would make jerseys very easy to rip and have a policy that parents are responsible to pay for a replacement. That will stop jersey grabbing very quickly.
Maybe you should focus more on your kids developmentIf a business cant exist without illegal immigrant labor multiple groups are being exploited. Citizens wages are being exploited via lower rates paid to illegals. In general citizens social services networks are being exploited because taxes arent being paid on wages. Illegals are being exploited because they have no other options to make money. The exploitation part comes in because illegals wouldn't choose to make less money than citizens if they had other options.
This is just another example of soccer choosing to do something that enables poor business practices. Participants refuse to change in ways what would enable more ethical business practices. They then pretend things cant be changed yet I showed multiple ways to do this.
Read this book. It will open your eyes. It doesn't specifically call out the ethical issues around hiring illegals. But it does cover business ethics in a youth soccer club context and the writing is pretty good.
Stephen Griffin - Youth Sports, Fraud, Business Ethics
Front Row Seat: Greed and Corruption in a Youth Sports Company explores business ethics; accounting and legal matters; and the author's own path to redemption.
Hahaha this is your response
Skin tight jerseys on soccer players would look a helluva lot better than offensive lineman. But on things like corners, where you're allowing arms wrapped around a striker, that needs to stop and stop now.
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It seems like a lot of people have taken time to complain about the ref protection policy and state the obvious. I am in complete agreement with everyone's frustration and anger at this as I have first hand experienced calls against player on our team that were egregious, fundamentally incorrect and also biased, both racially as well as against our team.
I took the time to file the complaints. Pursued them all the way through each SoCal Soccer body and get actual tangible results.
While the letter and the policies appear to state otherwise, the truth is that we have options as parents and coaches. It is up to hold them leagues and referees accountable for their actions. All the referees and leagues are governed under SafeSport and US Soccer. Their jurisdiction and policies supersede those set by the local league.
I am sharing links to both where they outline the steps to file a complaint as well as the protections in place for all. Instead of creating a scenario of aggression, violence, anger etc on the field, it is my suggestion that you look through these options and file the relevant complaints with supporting evidence as often as possible. This will force the local leagues and referee associations to be held to a higher standard.
SafeSport Code:
Read the SafeSport Code | U.S. Center for SafeSport
The SafeSport Code outlines the Center's process for responding to and resolving abuse and misconduct reports in the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Movement.
US Soccer SafeSport Complaints Procedure and Links:
Secondary Contact Info and Complaints Form:
Up to date database of Disciplined, Suspended or Ineligible Individuals (Coaches, referees, staff etc)
https://learning.ussoccer.com/directory/safesport-disciplinary-database
Hope this information helps us put pressure on the leagues and ref associations by attempting to address the shortcomings in a better manner.
It's probably a good thing that you haven't seen much of this or experienced it. In other areas, it is a much more significant issue and comes up all the time. Sometimes it may be as you describe, and people just looking for any excuse for why the match didn't go their way. But unfortunately, there are those times where this just can't be discounted - it's real, and it occurs more often than most all of us would prefer.
I know you aren't responding to me, but fwiw, I'll give you the top 3 instances which I would consider to be "bad", in terms of ref behavior and/or performance. I will also preface by saying I've officiated a lot of games also, I've watched a lot of games, and this is by no means a common occurrence, and I don't want to imply such. But, these are the refs which I would have reported, if I felt there was any path to getting any tangible results.
You had me until the part about a ref cheating to help Legends FC.
Two of the major other complaints are referees who are afraid to game manage (or who don't believe in it because we ought to "let em play") by using their cards and the game gets away from them....that's a safety issue for which there should be instruction to improve. It's not just that a call should be overturned, but the refs probably need some feed back to improve and that system just isn't in place because there aren't enough instructors and that would cost $$$$$.
Agreed. I cringe when I see people not keeping up with play (we call those folks sprinklers ... they just stand in the center circle and rotate). To be fair, sometimes on the 5th or 6th game of the day in 100 degree heat it's tough to move. I do my best to limit myself to 3 a day (1 center, 2 lines is pretty standard) but here in AZ we get constant requests for more and more games ("these games will be canceled if we don't have at least a center, please help"). You can work yourself to death if you're not careful.
The reality is there's a shortage. It shouldn't be happening, period. Those experienced refs should be paid the $$$ to then go supervise and instruct new refs for $$$$, not running 5 games a day. The reality is that it creates a safety concern because if a ref is too tired or too unhealthy to be in position its going to create potentially a danger for players because the ref can't see the whole field. But raising ref fees would mean soccer fees would go up and people are already complaining about how the less well off can't afford soccer so it's a rich person's sport.
In the case where the referee calls were racially biased he was initially given a temporary suspension and then deemed permanently ineligible.
Referee's are actually well paid in SoCal soccer, especially given that most of their income is tax free. SoCal soccer league referees make approximately $60 an hour in cash. What you can do is make sure your club requests tax documents from the ref organization at the end of the season to keep this in check.
We didnt see any tangible results or any results at all when we reached out to SoCal soccer or CalSouth ref body. That was the point at which i did some digging and made my way up the food chain. Involving SafeSport and US Soccer forces the regional bodies to get in line and actually do their due diligence in an investigation rather than just turning a blind eye.
