UpsetSoccerPlayer
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To whom it may concern;
I am here to make public some unfortunate activities that took place during tryouts for one of the local division 2 teams in our VMSL League. I was a former player on Wickham FC, and when we had a summer tournament, I approached the coach and the captain about a chance to tryout and if I could also bring others and both of them said yes and told me to come along. I ended up going and bringing 4 people along with me. I have waited this long to make public these events, because some of my friends play for the team and I did not want to compromise their position on the team.
During the tryouts, the coach began to pull players aside and have one on ones with them. Amongst them were the few friends I had brought, and I asked them what the coach had said to them. Upon hearing the conversation, I realized something funny was going on. The coach had asked my friends strange questions about playing if his friends didn’t make the team. When the day came to cut some players, he made us all wait after practice so he could have 1 on 1 with everyone. We waited until 11:45pm, on a weekday for over an hour, with everything being very secret and awkward. For one, they should be upfront with us players, this is an amateur league, we all have school or jobs and families, and none of this drama and secrecy is acceptable. If they did not want me as players, they should just make it clear from the start instead of signing my friends one by one and leaving me until midnight before giving me an unclear answer. Even after all this appalling behaviour, there is much more. The coach then proceeded to tell me something about me needing to fight for my position and other nonsense. At the time I wanted to play with my friends, so I told him of course, and I continued going to tryouts. Every week I would ask the coach the situation with me and each time he would give me the run around asking me if I was sure I wanted to pay this much money, that I was good enough to start at this level but that I would get that time on this team and so on, never once giving me a straight answer.
There is something very wrong with an amateur division 2 team which acts in this way, and their results speak for themselves. They should be upfront with players at this level and not make them wait until midnight to see if they are on the team, while signing their friends behind their back. The coach and manager have serious power issues and something should be done for their behaviour. There should be some sort of ethical constitution about how a coach and a manager treat their players and how they behave when it comes to choosing the players for their team.
I hope people take this into consideration before deciding to try out for a team who treats the players like the way the United States government treats its citizens. These people are having serious power trips over a division 2 soccer team, and there is no regulation on how they treat their players and it has gone to their heads. They think they are Serie A coaches and they can take make us wait until midnight so that they can feel like they are men.
I am here to make public some unfortunate activities that took place during tryouts for one of the local division 2 teams in our VMSL League. I was a former player on Wickham FC, and when we had a summer tournament, I approached the coach and the captain about a chance to tryout and if I could also bring others and both of them said yes and told me to come along. I ended up going and bringing 4 people along with me. I have waited this long to make public these events, because some of my friends play for the team and I did not want to compromise their position on the team.
During the tryouts, the coach began to pull players aside and have one on ones with them. Amongst them were the few friends I had brought, and I asked them what the coach had said to them. Upon hearing the conversation, I realized something funny was going on. The coach had asked my friends strange questions about playing if his friends didn’t make the team. When the day came to cut some players, he made us all wait after practice so he could have 1 on 1 with everyone. We waited until 11:45pm, on a weekday for over an hour, with everything being very secret and awkward. For one, they should be upfront with us players, this is an amateur league, we all have school or jobs and families, and none of this drama and secrecy is acceptable. If they did not want me as players, they should just make it clear from the start instead of signing my friends one by one and leaving me until midnight before giving me an unclear answer. Even after all this appalling behaviour, there is much more. The coach then proceeded to tell me something about me needing to fight for my position and other nonsense. At the time I wanted to play with my friends, so I told him of course, and I continued going to tryouts. Every week I would ask the coach the situation with me and each time he would give me the run around asking me if I was sure I wanted to pay this much money, that I was good enough to start at this level but that I would get that time on this team and so on, never once giving me a straight answer.
There is something very wrong with an amateur division 2 team which acts in this way, and their results speak for themselves. They should be upfront with players at this level and not make them wait until midnight to see if they are on the team, while signing their friends behind their back. The coach and manager have serious power issues and something should be done for their behaviour. There should be some sort of ethical constitution about how a coach and a manager treat their players and how they behave when it comes to choosing the players for their team.
I hope people take this into consideration before deciding to try out for a team who treats the players like the way the United States government treats its citizens. These people are having serious power trips over a division 2 soccer team, and there is no regulation on how they treat their players and it has gone to their heads. They think they are Serie A coaches and they can take make us wait until midnight so that they can feel like they are men.
FC Turkistan and Friends United are looking for players.
