I’d hire him.
This won’t fly in feminine New England...this will make them cry. The adults, that is...
So what’s the Coach’s FR screen name?
Shocking letter? To extol winning and express a desire to not lose? He was having a little fun, but the letter sounds like it’s from the type of coach I would want.
Some people have no sense of humor. :)
...OK, here's the real deal: Team 7 will be called Green Death. We will only acknowledge "Team 7" for scheduling and disciplinary purposes. Green Death has had a long and colorful history, and I fully expect every player and parent to be on board with the team. This is not a team, but a family (some say cult), that you belong to forever. We play fair at all times, but we play tough and physical soccer. We have some returning players who know the deal; for the others, I only expect 110% at every game and practice. We do not cater to superstars, but prefer the gritty determination of journeymen who bring their lunch pail to work every week, chase every ball and dig in corners like a Michael Vick pit bull. Unless there is an issue concerning the health of my players or inside info on the opposition, you probably don't need to talk to me. Coach MacDonald has been designated "good guy" this year. ...
I don't see the controversy.....
Letter looked fine to me except for the undercooked meat AND this letter is not for little girls.
I think it would have been a great letter for junior high and above.
send him up here, i’d send my girls to his team.
I love him. I don’t necessarily want to play for him, or have my kid play for him (it sounds like a lot of work to play for him, frankly) butI applaud his approach and his views. And his humor. Don’t people have any sense of humor anymore? Oh, I forgot, this is yuppie leftist Boston, not America.
Second although possibly bad decision on the coaches part, its obvious parts
are exagerated toungue and cheek humour about playing to win.
That’s hilarious.
I was a carded soccer referee when I was young — youngest in my province, at the time. This letter would have described most of the girl’s soccer coaches I have ever met.
Aside from it being bombastic to the point of being asinine, I’m not scandalized by this letter particularly — except he misunderstands his true place in the Universe and the Grand Scheme of Things. You see, the Coach isn’t mentioned in the Laws of Soccer. But the Referee is.
He refers the “his sideline”. He’s got that part wrong: when his team is playing on MY field it is MY sideline He and his players are MY GUESTS, as are the opposing team and their coach. Spectators are not my GUESTS: they are spectators about which I can do nothing except demand that they keep a respectable distance from my field and not disrupt the game.
If, as coach he gets lippy with me, the ref, he will get a Red Card and be escorted off MY field by the linesmen. If he pulls his team off the field as a result, he will forfeit the game and LOSE.
If he yells abusively at his team I would give him exactly one warning to pipe down: that warning comes with a Yellow Card. The next time it happens, Red Card and off the field — I don’t mind.
Anyone receiving a card — be it Yellow or Red — will in due course be reported to the Provincial authorities.
Forewarned is forearmed: the ref should spell all of this out at the beginning of the game, and then make it stick. Nothing more need be done. Let’s have a clean game, and a good game, and may the best team win.
I guess the parents were wimps in school and had mommy protect them all their lives.
What is the reason for getting the ball in the net if you don't keep score? Is it wrong to celebrate a job well done?
LOL! Thats an understatement.
This is probably his typical post game speech:
"Over? Did you say 'over'? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"
[...consequences the better. My heckling of the refs is actually helping them develop as people. The political correctness police are not welcome on my sidelines.]
This man should be coaching a boys team, not the girls whose moms live their sad life through their children.
Politcal correctness is hard and cruel and should be destroyed.
I think DD played for him ;-) b/c that is her outlook on soccer: an opportunity to run rough-shod over anyone in her way.
That said ... at 6 and 7 years old the big thing is that ALL the kids want a piece of the ball, so you basically have two color-coded clumps of kids milling around.
He probably needs to work with older kids
An hilarious letter. Have already photocopied it for the kids’ coaches. I think the true measure of things is whether the children enjoy him.
They have no humor there, non-PC tongue in cheek least of all.
In fact, your standard Bostonian doesn't even realize that a joke is being told unless it includes the F word and a derogatory reference to Jesus Christ.