Do We Blame Soccer Moms

I don't thinks so.....

Sunday, July 22, 2007

BATB: Neo-Narcissism Revisited Chilean Style: They’re “too young” to be disciplined!

CTV
Can you imagine the world, almost upon us I might add, if all children were brought up according to the coaches of the Chilean FIFA team, whose 19- and 20-year-old soccer players picked a fight with the Toronto police on Thursday night? They’d lost their game, they’d surrounded the referee, in a very unsportsmanlike manner, and then jumped off their bus to engage in fisticuffs with Toronto’s finest.
Now Chilean FIFA officials and representatives of the Government of Chile are demanding an apology from the Toronto police for "unjustified aggression," because their boys were handcuffed and one was tasered. Toronto police insist that they were responding to aggressive behaviour--what some bystanders described as "a brawl"--with necessary force.
What I want to know is, where is the contrition of the soccer players for their unsportsmanlike behaviour? Where is their respect for legitimate authority: for both referees and police officers?
It seems that when bringing up baby according to Chilean FIFA and Government Officials, we’re supposed to let these hooligans off the hook because, as Chilean Football Federation President Harold Mayne-Nicholls put it, "Our players are 19-year-old, 20-year-old kids. They were playing football and they never deserved the treatment they were receiving."
Why not? It’s precisely because these kids are 19- and 20-year-olds athletes that they need to understand what fair play is and what behaviour is acceptable and unacceptable. Civilian juveniles behaving violently would have been treated the same way by Toronto police. Why should these soccer players be treated any differently?