Hong Kong 10-year-old arrested after violent youth soccer foul

[tomboy]

[baludoy]

that's football for you. if you lose you're head you'll be in deep doodoo

pero that's the nature of the sport talaga. you've got to be a beast to excel in the beautiful game, sadly, sometimes the ruthlessness goes way overboard

[Monseratto]

Correction: English expat white boy kicks ethnic chinese in the head.

In the U.S. we don’t go arresting 10-year-olds for soccer violence, although maybe we should. I’m not sure. But in Hong Kong, they look at things differently. It’s the followup to the story we brought you on Wednesday of last week, when a youth soccer match turned ugly and one player, from the ESF (English Schools Foundation) Lions team, was captured on video kicking a 12-year-old playing for Kitchee Escola team in the head during a match. According to reports, it was a rematch of a previous friendly that the Kitchee team had won 16-0.

On Monday the 10-year-old ESF player was arrested, and then released on bail.

At about the 1:30 mark in the video below, you’ll see the Kitchee player, who appears to be ethnically Chinese, make a bad tackle. While thaht player is on the ground, the ESF Lions player, who appears to be Caucasian, ignores the nearby ball and instead kicks the Kitchee kid in the head. London Daily Telegraph:


While the older boy did not suffer a serious injury, his parents filed a police complaint. On Monday, the ten-year-old was released on bail.

“I understand that the parent of the injured child has referred the matter to the police and we will cooperate fully with any police investigation,” said the head of Hong Kong’s English Schools Foundation (ESF) in a letter to parents.

There was already somewhat of a controversy over ESF in Hong Kong, as the government continues to subsidize the school despite it being one of the largest schools for foreign students on the island. The ESF Lions is made up mostly of Caucasian players, who many parents are calling “white bullies” following the incident.

H/T SportsbyBrooks.

[CVT]

Kaya hindi mag-fly ang football sa mga Pinoy.... Kung ganyan,- sapakan na kaagad....
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[baludoy]

^oo nga eh.

masiko o masahod ka lang sa basketball - possible bench clearing incident na agad. eh sa football par for the course lang iyong ganyan.

[shadow]

^oo nga eh.

masiko o masahod ka lang sa basketball - possible bench clearing incident na agad. eh sa football par for the course lang iyong ganyan.

Bagay Sa pinoy ice hockey, para suntukan parati at may sense pa rin ng team spirit yun sport,

[baludoy]

^hindi din kasi pag-natyempohan ko iyong mga nag ice hockey league sa southmall dati cool naman sila walang away-away.

pero kung bagay sa pinoy as a sport, don't know about that, baka i-shave lang iyong ice at gawing mais con yelo come to think of it, madami nga ata ice shavings nagkalat dun habang on-going ang play