Every youth soccer parent, coach and referee knows these parents
. They’re the ones who gush about their kid’s new youth club in August and then rant against it when they leave in May. They’re the ones who intimidate coaches into substituting players at nearly every stoppage in play, lest a player be left on the sideline longer than a few minutes. They’re the ones who gossip on anonymous message boards to trash coaches and clubs.
Woe be unto the referee who crosses a women’s national team player who feels emboldened by a sycophantic fan base not just to argue with referees but to humiliate them. It’s also a country in which players grow up and see nothing wrong with taking a staggering 90 per cent of the prize money the men earned in the 2022 World Cup and the women will earn in the 2023 World Cup, all while grassroots organisations seethe at seeing the rich get richer.
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