What they are talking about in the article won’t even happen with soccer here because they wouldn’t publish results of little kids games in the newspaper here to begin with. Do they publish the winners of pee wee football or baseball games where you live? The deal about giving all the kids trophies and stuff has been going on in all little kids sports since at least the seventies when I was a little kid playing sports. They’re little kids. We want to make them all feel good about themselves. We want them to learn team work and have winning attitudes and play with all their hearts too, but we don’t make winning everything and crush their little spirits when they get bested. You just don’t do that to little kids.
They do publish the winners at the end of the season in the local small town newspaper. However, they all get a trophy for participating, which is fine by me.