This disturbs me to no end. Noone needs their games interfered with like this. Cheer, enjoy, and love the game, but move on after bad calls, bad luck, and annoying people. They should make the parents shake hands like the athletes before and after the game. Don't ruin the experience and effort so many put in to provide these competitive soccer tournaments. It's such an amazing thing for kids imo.
Why get upset at it? We should be honored to lose. It means that others with similar skills work just as hard and have heart too. I hate losing more than I like winning, but I make a point for my child to see me watch our opponents and applaud them when they win finals or regular games over us. It is very emotional out there, but it is just always just one game of 1,000s for our kids. The most important thing for our kids is for them to WANT to get back out there and compete. Our #1 job as parents should be to encourage them to love the challenge and excitement of competition not for it to be end of the world pressure.
If you're lucky enough to be in a rivalry, you should be honored. You will not always win and it sucks when things don't go your way, but the whole point of this journey is to build your youth athlete with life skills and tough skin not violent, juvenile behavior. I am far from perfect and have had my emotional moments too, but never like this.
How come they don't put one team on one side and the other on the other side like in football and other sports? Yes, we should be able to behave, but I think that proximity enhances the friction that leads to altercations.