It Pisses Me Off....

Sorry for not posting in a while. School has been keeping me from getting online a lot and a trip that might be canceled has made me extremely pissed off because some racism has been added into this all. I shall explain.

First off, I would like to tell you about the man who has had racism put upon his shoulders because of how he coaches my brother's soccer team. His name is Danielle, and he use to be a pro soccer player. Everyone respects Danielle on our team. The parents, the players, even I do. He's an amazing person. He's harsh on the players when they make a mistake but they take it in and become better players. If he wasn't like that then they wouldn't have been undefeated this past season. So, you know he's a good coach. If everyone hated him, then we all could understand why racism has been put upon him.

One reason why people are being racist against him is because he yells in Spanish to the Latino kids on our team. Its easier for him because he's still learning English and is also Latino. He also feels like its easier to express something to the Latino kids in their language then in English. It doesn't really matter to the parents because we have two native speakers on the side lines with us to translate him. Other parents feel as though Danielle is talking bad about others in Spanish but its the way he is. As the parents and siblings of this team we should have the say in if Danielle can speak Spanish or not during a game. We don't have a problem with it so he should be able to.

Because of how Danielle coaches our team and the racism invovled, our soccer league is trying to cancel the Spain trip we're planning for July. Another team is going to Ireland but its only that team going (and the coach is white). Danielle opened up the Spain trip to the U-13, U-14, and U-15 teams for both boys and girls. Our team is also running a craft fair on December 2nd to try and make money for the trip and they're trying to shut down that too! I can't believe they're trying to do that!

Another thing that pisses me off about this is that they're trying to take Danielle away from our team. The league is going to replace him with another coach for the spring season. At the party celebrating our team moving up a division, from Classic A to Premire, Danielle told the parents he may not be coming back unless he gets good reviews. Hell, my mom and dad left good reviews and sure as hell the other parents will too.

It just pisses me off that Danielle might not be coming back. If he's not here in the spring, I'm giving the coach hell.