Posted on 02/03/2008 3:17:26 PM PST by BurbankKarl
CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- School officials were investigating a brawl among 20- 50 people at a Otay Ranch High School soccer match on Friday that sent one youth to hospital and a coach to jail, it was reported Sunday.
A San Ysidro High School coach is accused of choking an Otay Ranch player, and later punching a teenager who tried to break up a fight, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
"There were people everywhere, pushing each other, and fighting and stuff," Anthony Rodriguez, co-captain of the Otay Ranch team, told the newspaper. "I'm sure some people had bumps and bruises from getting hit on the head."
Eduardo Jimenez Arenas, 39, a contract coach for San Ysidro High, was booked at the Chula Vista jail Friday on suspicion of felony assault and battery, said Chula Vista police Lt. Scott Arsenault. Bail was set at $130,000.
No video of the fight has emerged, and that makes it more difficult to investigate, said San Ysidro High School Principal Hector Espinoza.
The fight started about 4 p.m. -- about 10 minutes into the second half - - when players on both sides began to argue on the field about a foul. Arenas, who was nearby, walked onto the field and began to choke an Otay Ranch player, police said.
"I see the coach come over and grab one of our players, and I'm thinking, 'Can he do that?"' said Rodriguez, a senior at Otay Ranch.
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One more reason to get rid of metric football.
When I said US soccer needs to get involved with other nations and learn their styles in order to be competitive, I wasn’t talking about the British soccer hooligans.
"I see the coach come over and grab one of our players, and I'm thinking, 'Can he do that?"'
Reading these words I hear the voice of Phil Hendrie's character named Brass Villenheuva.
I don’t know. There were a couple of neighboring towns in the South that cancelled high school football games for years because of the number of fights that broke out in the stands during the games. Wasn’t a racial thing either.
No, my point was that this kind of fighting used to be common in some places, especially the South. The fights that I mentioned weren’t the result of some kind of racial tension, it was a cultural (or lack thereof perhaps) thing.
They needed some Citizens Auxiliary Police on duty!
This is not a surprise. My brother was on a state-championship level soccer team in Chula Vista in 1974, and we were the only native English speakers on the team. Everyone took their futbol very seriously in those parts 35 years ago!
Can’t blame this on Mexican culture, though - sports hooliganism is universal. Everyone on earth needs to Get a Life, in my opinion.
What were you talking about then?
Did you mean the Coke addicted, rapist, dog abusing, bastard fathering, criminal element that infest the NFL?
( we can all sterotype, you know...)
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Is this guy a government teacher? Wow! What a role model.
Is this the “socialization” that homeschoolers are missing? Seems like a another reason to homeschool!
Can’t we just get along,otay?
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