The G04 RL game had a total of 4 red cards posted to the box score game played on 10/5 (on the ECNL website). This is the one I heard of but I also heard there were others before this. I don't know if this is limited to the RL teams or if the ECNL teams are having similar issues. They are a new club in ECNL and they are having an adjustment year - they have 7 wins as a club versus 22 losses - so maybe their frustrations are coming thru? Hopefully they will get back to just playing soccer soon.
I looked on the ECNL site but did not see any cards; I could be looking at the wrong place thou??
I hate to jump on a club but I feel this thread is well deserved by the Rebels, although I do know that I am just venting and nothing will be done. I also know that some 04 girls have come and gone (some bad seeds to Albion) but the core make up of the team seems to be the same. I always make a point of filming every game against the 04s because I am fearful of dirty players. And if it was not for their dirty players, I am sure my daughters would have liked to have tried out there, especially now with ECNL but would not consider it due to the poor attitude they have witnessed. When a club is being considered for DA or ECNL, there should be an open comment period and I think experienced ref's opinions should be asked for. Rebels have alienated a lot of families with their behavior that could have otherwise made their ECNL teams much better from the start.
My daughters have played the 03 and 04 teams ( and before the age split as well) numerous times over the years. Even at Ulittles, the parents and players would swear at the other team. When Gabe took over the 04 team, most of our team knew Gabe and complained after the game to him about parents and players swearing at them. Gabe is a good guy and had our players pick out the parents and players. Too bad Gabe was not with this team long enough to instill good sportsmanship.
Then when my daughter was on a Presidio all start team (no jokes please) the 04 Rebel's goalie's dad took the email list and started to email parents about Rebels tryouts. Interestingly, he used a new email address to cut and paste the emails onto in the hopes of not being traced. When I asked for a second time to be removed from his list, he got heated with me, saying that he "did not owe me anything" whatever that means. I asked for his name but he refused. I asked Ryan, Brian and Abel about it and they denied knowing anything. (the only reason I cared was because the guy got super mad when I asked for a second time to be removed and so I wanted to know what type of nutcase I was dealing with because I knew we would be playing them again). When I was able to find out that the person that was angrily emailing me was named Dominic, I asked Lewis if he had any parents on his team with that name. He denied it even though Dominic's daughter had been with the team for years. Anyways after I called him out, the angry emails stopped from all accounts he used, but not before another page full of ranting.
Then a year or 2 later, a mom told me that she was really upset because the goalie's dad, (Dominic) who keeps an Instagram account for his daughter (or at least she thinks so because a lot of the posts are done during the school day and the language used is not typical for kids) posted a video of her daughter where she pushes a Rebel's player and wrote is this a dirty player? Looking at the video one girl was running full speed and the Rebels player stopped in front of her so the girl put out 1 hand to prevent colliding. That started nasty comments back and forth on Instagram. The parent called Rebels (I think Lewis) and asked them to remove the post but of course they did not care. I know that they cannot make the girl (or her dad) remove the post, but if it upset this parent enough to call, they should have showed some class, good will, sportsmanship etc. and at least spoke to the girl about how her posting could impact her college chances. That would probably have been enough to get her to realize that it should be removed.
As a reliable source,
@Surfref has been on this site describing horrendous behavior between two Rebels coaches, and bad behavior by parents and players.
What has been described on this thread starts with the DOC and coach. While I don't expect my kids coach to teach them sportsmanship, I do expect them to enforce it and lead by example. Unfortunately bad sportsmanship permeates the club. Sorry to hear that it resulted in physical harm, but I am not surprised.