So I am the coach my son's U-10 soccer team (house League). We are in an intercity house league tournament right now governed by FIFA rules.
Today, we had a semi final game - I get to to the field and I see its got very strange dimensions, especially the goals . I ask some league people, "Is this actually a proper field - and they say yes it is". I knew the game would be bad because the nets being so small meant a win would come out of some freak occurrence.
We ended up losing 2-0 (on a penalty shot and some weird mess up). The whole game we absolutely dominated the other team maybe like 15 scoring chances vs 2 for them but the nets were so ridiculously small (~10x5) that it effectively neutralized us....
I went home read the rules and it say the soccer nets must be 18ft x 6ft and so I sent an email disputing the results as the net was significantly smaller and it had a major impact on the outcome.
How crazy am I?
Today, we had a semi final game - I get to to the field and I see its got very strange dimensions, especially the goals . I ask some league people, "Is this actually a proper field - and they say yes it is". I knew the game would be bad because the nets being so small meant a win would come out of some freak occurrence.
We ended up losing 2-0 (on a penalty shot and some weird mess up). The whole game we absolutely dominated the other team maybe like 15 scoring chances vs 2 for them but the nets were so ridiculously small (~10x5) that it effectively neutralized us....
I went home read the rules and it say the soccer nets must be 18ft x 6ft and so I sent an email disputing the results as the net was significantly smaller and it had a major impact on the outcome.
How crazy am I?
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