Kristy Bobay
1/5
I would now like to respond to a review below from the owner to the coach of the Waxahachie 4v4 soccer tourney. I was a bystander watching the girls 2010 championship game. I have no children on the team. I watched a 2010 team play 2008 team all day which as the response states was the teams' choice. This is a LIE. The team signed up for a 2010 tournament but with not enough teams joining were told the night before the tournament that they would play 2008-2010 teams. The team had already signed up so chose to give it a try. This group of girls also came down with a 2012 boys’ team. Both teams did very well in their games and had no problems with teams or refs all day. The problem came when and only when the girls played the director’s daughters’ team in game 2. The ref for this game was another daughter of the director and the sister of one of the players on the opposing team. The ref overall did ok, she wasn't the best ref, but it is what it is when it comes to refs in tournaments until the game was tied 7-7 with just over 2 minutes to play. The director’s daughters’ team got a goal 8-7 and the ref (the sister) called the game 2 minutes early. This was not ok but again it is what it is. Just a reminder this is a 2010 team that was tied with a 2008 team and the game was called when 2008 team got a goal with STILL 2 minutes remaining in play.
The championship game the 2010 team had to face this 2008 team again which is the only team they lost to after being cut short game time. The championship game began, and the first half went well. It was a one-point game. Coming into the 2nd half the 2008 team started playing extremely rough, full extension of the arms, pushing after the play and taking players out that were clearly not going for the ball and only the player. When the parents began to question the ref, the 2008 girls started yelling back at the parents. The ref just stood on the far side of the field the entire game and didn't address any concerns of fair play. The director (again the mom of one of the girls on the 2008 team) showed up at about 6-7 minutes till the end of the game and started saying she was there because the parents of the 2010 team were yelling at 14 -15-year-old girls. This is a LIE. No parents yelled at a child, the children yelled at the adults, but the adults were addressing the ref and being ignored. The director (a mom of a 2008 player) stood in front of the mom from the 2010 team mom who was having issues with her daughter being fouled and then shoved full arm extension from behind after the play. The director steps in and says no one is going to listen to the complaints because adults are yelling at kids (again not true). Because the mom couldn't see because the director stepped in front of her, the mom used her arm to get around the director and then sat on the field to watch the rest of the game when the director (a mom of the 2008 team) told her it was assault and she needed to leave the field. It was NOT assault; it was a mother trying to watch the rest of the game that was still in play. Because she refused to leave the field, the director (a mom of 2008 team) told the ref to call the game and forced the 2010 team to forfeit. Mind you the game was 6-5 with 4-5 minutes left to play in a Championship game where now the director's daughters' team won the championship.
As for the numerous bystanders that accounted for what happened. Thank you to the parents of the 2008 team who agreed with their daughters getting a win in the tournament and telling the director what she wanted to hear. The bystanders I talked to said quite the opposite and were just bewildered by the forfeit.
Out of ALL the tournaments I have been to as a Coach and a supporter, this is one of the most poorly handled I have ever seen. I will never bring a team to play for Waxahachie again and I will let everyone I know in the soccer world that they should avoid playing for Waxahachie as well because they cheat to win.
