Controversy over 41-1 win in children’s match: “Federations should regulate this” – El Partidazo de COPE

This weekend, a controversy erupted at the Inflantiles match in Asturias, in which Gijon Industrial defeated Marino de Luanco 41-1. In El Partidazo de COPE we discuss similar results and Manolo Lama said that funds will need to be provided so that things like this don’t happen in basketball:”This should be regulated by the federations; in basketball, the record is closed when winning by more than 50 points. This result will not benefit some children or other people. For children, scoring a goal is a weekly achievement.“.

One of the main characters was Joaquin Solares, coach of Gijon Industrial: who explained what he did to try to stop his team from losing: “In the second half they were down to ten players and I sent off one of my players and at half-time I told the referee to call the federation and stop the game, but the referee told us that he couldn’t, that he needed to kick the ball. whistle for 80 minutes. . I told them to stay on our field and not to go beyond it, but they threw the ball to us. I put a player goalie so it wouldn’t make such a big difference. I tried my best to stop it.

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Solares admitted that the game went very badlydespite the victory: “You are in the eye of a hurricane: I understand. This is a match that I didn’t want because I knew the situation of both teams and unfortunately I don’t want to do it, I’m very upset because I don’t like this happening. It’s hard to manage 13-year-old kids who all want to score their goal.

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At the end of the game the coach explained: what his players did to the opposing team they beat:”Not everyone wanted to keep scoring goals. My players weren’t celebrating, I told them to go say hello and we applauded them; most of all out of respect, because I understand them, they have merit in the fact that they continue to work and try“.

We also spoke with Luis Gallego, President of Marino de Luancowho explained the problems his team has faced this season: “We knew it would be a difficult year because it was their first time playing football, but we decided to play in the second division and that was a mistake. It was our mistake and we accept the consequences. We wanted to enter this category because we had twelve players and we were hoping to find someone else, but the parents didn’t want to. We continued to play, talked to Boris, but he didn’t get anything. We will continue to fight

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Finally, the president admitted that, despite the big defeat, the children were lucky: “The children were happy and went to the beach to train. They assumed they would have a very bad year.“.

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