By Anonymous - 17/05/2009 13:48 - United States

Today, I was coaching a little league soccer game. I was telling one of my players to go cover another kid. I said "go cover the little yellow kid!" because he happened to be wearing a yellow shirt. He also happened to be Asian. I then got death stares from his family members. FML
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Same thing different taste

Top comments

HAHAHAHA. Oh mannn that's horrible...I don't think you deserve it though...thats a horrible coincidence.

manoverboard 0

My coach did that last season! We laughed the entire game...

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suaveneanderthal 0

i bet the whole family squinted their eyes at you, that could get awkward.

lovelyxo 0

it's not that big of a deal. so the parents overreacted & took it the wrong way. it's not like you'll ever see them again.

jasmine1259 2

for the people saying he should know his name, if he's telling one of his own players to cover someone else, wouldn't that mean they were on the other team?

Stephai 0
omar_fml 0

yikes wait wouldn't their whole team be wearing yellow? not just the "yellow kid"

To everyone who says that the kids would have been wearing the same (yellow) color shirt: When I played soccer as a child, before we got our uniforms, we would wear these brightly colored netted jerseys over our own clothes. Because of the netting, the T-shirt color underneath was still visible. There are many other reasons why the kids might have been wearing their own clothing instead of uniforms. OP, that's incredibly awkward. Hopefully you don't run into those parents again. FYL.

sarawr 0

I'm not sure if others have already made these points, but I'm too lazy to check so here they are anyway: a) Don't teams usually have uniforms, so they can be uh, uniform? So that they all look alike and you don't have two kids wearing the same colour shirt on different teams? For that reason alone that makes this questionable because otherwise it would be havoc on the playing field. And yes, sometimes little leagues bend the rules so kids can wear their own shirts, but the kids are almost always told (in my experience at least) to match the team and wear the same colour, so they don't create problems with kicking/passing/tagging. b) Why would you say "the yellow kid" instead of "the kid in yellow". The wording is just weird, and seems unrealistic, if you were referring to his uniform. Either way it could just be my country/region, as language varies greatly but it still just sounds weird.

llSgtScopell 0