Indignation in Galician football: a father calls a child under 14 years old "fat" - La Provincia
Grassroots again set a bad example. A cadet category match - children aged 14 and 15 - ended with a verbal confrontation between fans, a coach and a humiliated teenager after the father of one of the players called the goalkeeper of the rival team "fat".
It happened on Saturday in one of the playing fields of A Xunqueira (Pontevedra), where they faced the ACD A Seca and the Arosa SC in a meeting corresponding to the First Autonomous Cadet category.
After a kick without penalty
It was the 74th minute, with the game on track for visitors (0-2), when an Arosa player suffered an ugly entry, without a ball, which left him lying on the ground. The referee, Alejandro Gómez Cerqueiro, did not point out the foul, and when the game was stopped to take care of the injured the goalkeeper of the club vilagarciano ran to attend to his companion, still lying on the ground, and to recriminate the attitude of the player of A Seca who had committed the foul, getting to push it warmly.
It was at that moment when From the stands a father called the doorman "fat", unleashing the verbal distress referred to. The coach of Arosa, David Cascallar, approached the referee to reproach his attitude, since he did nothing to hear the insult uttered against the goalkeeper, Only 14 years old.
The protests of the coach of Arosa the direct red cost him, which he also saw, once the match was over, the Harlequin goalkeeper himself, when he went to the changing room tunnel, he told a colleague that "some referees will always be bad"; words that the collegiate of the meeting heard, hence the cardboard that showed him.
"I defended my player"
The atmosphere was very hot, as a result of the lack, the insult towards the young goalkeeper and the expulsion of the coach, who after the crash explained: "I did what I think I had to do, defend my player as if he were my son before some people who have no name; I only went to the referee to ask him to reflect it (the insult) in the minutes and to realize what was happening there, because it is children, and I consider that our duty is to give them an adequate sports education, trying to train them like people ".
The coach of Arosa cadet holds thatand "at no time" disrespected "the referee or anyone", but he fears that "after what he put in the match minutes" he can receive a heavy penalty.
Unconditional support of parents
The reaction of the parents of the Arosa players was swift. They fully cover the coach, ask the Federation to act against the referee - not against the coach - and They say "shameful" what happened in A Xunqueira, since "you cannot tolerate insulting a child from the stands and the referee does nothing. "
The parents, willing to "go where necessary" and "sign where necessary" in defense of their coach, they argue that Cascallar "He has been super-correct, defending one of his players against those who insulted him."
They come to thank you for trying to protect children and insist that "You cannot allow them to be insulted from the stands", that is why they consider that "we have to act as a team and as a club so that events like this are not repeated; that is what Cascallar intended to ask the referee to reflect in the minutes what had happened."
The parents of the Arosa players strongly criticize the work of the referee, who in addition to the two expulsions showed yellow cards to the second coach and four other players of the harlequin team.
