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[sounderfan]

This sad story from the Longview, WA area. The player, Luis Bueno, was released the next day from the hospital.

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/05/04/local_sports/10230269.txt

"It was the most malicious cheap shot I've ever seen on a soccer field," the MM coach said of the hit that sent Bueno into a seizure. "It was as if that coach (Hockinson's J.J. Klaus) had coached his kids to go out and turn the game into a thugfest. It was that way the whole night. They knew there was an inexperienced referee who wasn't going to control the game — and he didn't."

West said he was warned ahead of time by another Greater St. Helens 2A League coach that Hockinson was "going to come after our team."

"And they did," West said. "They put a kid in the hospital. I thought maybe after they did that, things would settle down. But it kept on. Every time we trapped the ball, we'd fly forward. Kids were going up for headers and trying to protect themselves. Kids were getting their feet taken out. Most of the shots we took, though, were away from the ball — cheap and dirty."

[kennard04]

This sad story from the Longview, WA area. The player, Luis Bueno, was released the next day from the hospital.

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/05/04/local_sports/10230269.txt

"It was the most malicious cheap shot I've ever seen on a soccer field," the MM coach said of the hit that sent Bueno into a seizure. "It was as if that coach (Hockinson's J.J. Klaus) had coached his kids to go out and turn the game into a thugfest. It was that way the whole night. They knew there was an inexperienced referee who wasn't going to control the game — and he didn't."

West said he was warned ahead of time by another Greater St. Helens 2A League coach that Hockinson was "going to come after our team."

"And they did," West said. "They put a kid in the hospital. I thought maybe after they did that, things would settle down. But it kept on. Every time we trapped the ball, we'd fly forward. Kids were going up for headers and trying to protect themselves. Kids were getting their feet taken out. Most of the shots we took, though, were away from the ball — cheap and dirty."

I have no opinion on this game, I didn't see it, I don't know what happened.

I will say that since forever, the teams that would most be likely to hurt you in a game, soccer, football, basketball, whatever, were the teams from Kelso-Longview. It's been going on for a long, long time. I know first hand with 6 kids playing or having played sports that the Longview-Kelso teams are the most likely to be overly physical.  

That doesn't make this foul right, but I know lots of parents and lots of student athletes have suffered from teams from this area. My kid got punched in the face during the post game hand slap by a Kelso player. You reap what you sow.