I find this hilariously funny!

David Beckham got sent off from a youth soccer match:

"It was the younger kids of Romeo's club, and they're playing in the game and there was a penalty given. And the kids are 7 years old and he sent the kid off." After that, Beckham, who has seen his share of red cards in his career (including a crucial one in a World Cup match against Argentina in 1998), did what so many parents of youth soccer players have done — he opened his mouth.

David Beckham's reent ejection from a youth soccer game has been receiving a lot of attention in the press. To hear Becks describe it, he quite rightly protested a referee ejecting a 7-year old from a youth soccer game and the ref kicked him out of the park as a result.

If Beckham's telling is accurate, it seems the ref overreacted twice and this is all much ado about nothing.

Today is National Letter of Intent day where high school student athletes sign with their colleges of choice for fall sports. It's a very exciting day in the lives of student athletes and their parents. The process can sometimes be difficult with many options and choices. With the choices lie opportunities that will shape these [.

One of the biggest days of the football year the transfers are far more important than the games and the thunder's been stolen by some nutjob who decided to handcuff himself to the post during Everton and Man City at Goodison Park.

He was protesting...ummm...

Never before has a Premier League match been interrupted by a middle-aged man protesting about Ryanair's recruitment policies on the basis that his daughter did not get a job with the airline.

Ron Clark has a fantastic article up at CNN highlighting the flight of teachers from the profession, in part because of trouble dealing with parents. Reading it, I saw a lot of parallels with coaching youth sports and dealing with soccer parents, which can have a huge impact on a team and player development.

A common belief is that US youth soccer players suffer from over coaching, and in many cases that is true. But in our helicopter parent society where kids rarely can just go 'play in the park', coaches are in a situation where they have to provide SOME instruction and opportunity to develop. How do you create a fun practice where the kids push themselves vs go through the motions while also correcting mistakes and allowing for self discovery of soccer skill?

Inglewood resident Jose Villarreal, 18, who still lives at home with his parents, has become the first South Bay native to join the South Bay-based Galaxy from the club's youth academy. He spent his first day on the job Monday, not so much overawed by training on the same field

By Chris Wright

Seems like the apology worked as it's been confirmed by the Spanish FA that Real Madrid bottom-feeder Pepe won't be punished for stamping on Lionel Messi's hand during the most recent El Clasico tie last week not that the Real Madrid fans themselves are quite so ready to forgive and forget.

What would the NSCAA Convention be without the added excitement (and pressure) of speaking? For the second year in a row, my good friend and peer Ryan Knapp and I presented together. Ryan and I met in 2009 at Tweet Blowing the Whistle on Social Media and have bantered back and forth on all things digital and social media since.

It's always difficult for a youngster to leave his home country and settle in England. Davide Santon - has settled down well on Tyneside But that's exactly what Davide Santon had to do last August, when Newcastle signed the Italian International for around £5M from top Italian club Inter-Milan.

Recently Pat McStay of Virginia Online Soccer News was able to catch up with Christian Metzler of Woodbridge, VA. Metzler who is an All-State goalkeeper recently received the first annual Inspirium Soccer Award along with a $7,500 academic scholarship.
Woodbridge Goalkeeper wins Inspireum Soccer Award, Scholarship
Watch his inpirational video!

I realize this has been around for a while and has likely made the rounds, but it cracked me up. The sad part is many youth soccer coaches have had to deal with what is said in this video, and it can be impossible trying to get parents to understand why winning is not important when they're 10 years old.

I realize this has been around for a while and has likely made the rounds, but it cracked me up. The sad part is many youth soccer coaches have had to deal with what is said in this video, and it can be impossible trying to get parents to understand why winning is not important when they're 10 years old.

ESPN has a radio show dedicated to youth sports called 'Hey Coach Tony', and all the shows are up on YouTube which is very cool. Word is the show will soon be simulcast on many cable systems. Podcasts would also be a great thing to have for those with iPods. It's an entertaining show that tends to focus on the extremes and controversial situations, but overall Tony covers a number of hot button issues that are worthwhile to debate.

Our recreational league has been coed since it's inception. We formed coed divisions simply because of numbers. When our league formed in 2002, we had ~350 players or so from U6 up through U12 just enough to form small two year divisions of coed teams (U6/U8/U10/U12). A few years later players were split by gender only if they made our new travel teams (U10 and above).

Stories of loud and obnoxious soccer parents are not hard to come by. We've all encountered them, though in my experience they're not as widespread as the media would lead you to believe. When you do encounter them, it's usually a couple of parents being loud and/or obnoxious while the other parents behave (and often try to get as far away from the loud ones as possible).

One of the neat experiences I've had coaching youth soccer is having a player who can do a flip throw. We actually have two players on our 96 girls team that can do it, though one is a striker and only throws in on occasion. The other is one of our starting defenders and was a competitive gymnast before she started playing soccer.

Are Russell Brand and Katy Perry getting a divorce? That's the latest rumor in the entertainment industry, at least. And there was just some gasoline thrown on those flames when Russell Brand was pictured without a wedding ring while in London.

Where is Katy Perry? She's in Hawaii.

Hmmm, interesting.

In life there are many things you cannot choose: you cannot choose your parents, where you are born, even whom you love is a difficult one: against all logic, a man may fall madly in love with some third-rate, cranky, controlling, selfish, unfaithful and evil bitch with a minority complex. Football is most often a mere reflection of life itself, where a man walks from happiness to sadness, from

Last Friday we were too busy fawning all over the fiercely fashionable Alonsos to realise that this hot to trot Spanish couple was also in GQ Man of the Year attendance. Less than a week later they've given us another shot at showing them off, which we're very appreciative of.

Certainly Real Madrid's Arbeloa and his equally beautiful wife, Carlota, looked stellar as usual at the Chocron New Catalague event this past Wednesday.

Three soccer players from Virginia have been named semifinalists of the Inspireum Soccer Awards. Tyler Hobbs (Chesapeake), Christian Metzler (Woodbridge), and Gaela Normile (Virginia Beach) are hoping to win the $25,000 in scholarships.
The list of 50 semifinalists will be narrowed down to 12 finalists on December 13th by the National Selection Committee that includes coaches April Heinrichs and Jurgen Klinsmann.

While the play was wild and wooly, the Beach parents were something to behold. Swearing at our players, screaming at the refs. Unbelievable. They even were screaming when Sodium scored to the point where there own daughters had to come over and tell them that the ball actually did go in before they would shut up.

Liverpool have secured the signing of MK Don's highly-rated teenager Seyi Ojo.
The 14-year-old, who was also believed to have attracted the interest of Chelsea, has been snapped up by the Reds' academy.
Ojo earned two England caps at Under-16 level during their recent Victory Shield campaign, and his deal has been given the seal of approval by Dons chairman Peter Winkelman.

Wait, what???

Seeing Red

Well color me surprised. It seemed that this bit of business was all done and dusted last month. Now comes the revaluation that Seyi Ojo has, in fact, agreed a deal to join Liverpool. The 14-year old deemed that his future would be better served on Merseyside, hence the change of heart.

By 1970's GoonerNico Yennaris had his first team debut for Arsenal only recently in the League Cup against Bolton. He played at right back and had a pretty good game. But now that everyone has seen his potential he has a choice to make. Does he continue representing England in the U19s or does he opt to play for his parents countries.

Javier "Chicarito" Hernandez is becoming one of the fans favorite at Manchester United especially with his habit in scoring important goals for the Red Devils since arriving at Old Trafford this season.

With his current bright future, no one wouldn't thought that the 23-years-old Mexican actually almost ended his footballing career back when he was still playing in his country's league around three years ago.

Two Academy youngsters paid a special visit to Four Oaks Primary School earlier this week to help Liverpool Football Club deliver their 'Truth 4 Youth' message.
Matty McGiveron and Craig Roddan dropped by to host a special assembly at the Liverpool school and deliver anti-racism, anti-bullying and positive community messages to pupils in years 3 to 6.

By Alan Duffy

Not only do Premier League footballers have to watch their own behaviour, but they also have to hope that their family members behave themselves too. Just ask Wayne Rooney.

Well Rooney's ex-United team-mate, Kieron Richardson, is the latest footballer to see his family in the 'papers for the wrong reasons.

Colombian pop star/Gerard Pique's on-again girlfriend, Shakira, loved the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star that she received on 8th of November so much she was compelled to lay next to it on the dirty sidewalk. The singer's parents were at the ceremony as well, but showed restraint when asked to join in their daughter's unsanitary fun.

CJ Sapong was named the 2011 MLS Rookie of the Year. (Getty Images)

When voting came out for the end-of-year awards in Major League Soccer one award was simple to vote on the Rookie of the Year. MLS announced that Sporting Kansas City forward C.J. Sapong has been named 2011 MLS Rookie of the Year.

Remember Afroman's "Because I Got High"? Much like Alanis Morrisette's "You Outta Know" it was one of those rare late 90s/early 2000s pop songs that managed to sneak a blatant oral sex reference onto America's most mom-approved radio stations. Subsequently, many of us experienced that awkward moment where you are in a small confined space (i.

Over at FOF people are wondering if Fulham have the worst badge in the league. I'll save the cheap shots no mentions of swastikas or of the design being created by a six year old here! and instead cut to the chase: since so many people like the old Fulham badge, what exactly did we gain by updating it?

Over at FOF people are wondering if Fulham have the worst badge in the league. I'll save the cheap shots no mentions of swastikas or of the design being created by a six year old here! and instead cut to the chase: since so many people like the old Fulham badge, what exactly did we gain by updating it?

Liverpool FC star Jamie Carragher officially opened the country's newest community outdoor football pitches.
The Reds defender joined players from Bootle Bucks and Netherton Rangers junior sides to unveil the venue in Glovers Lane, Netherton.
The redeveloped site, run by Sefton council, has four five-a-side and two seven-a-side pitches.

Ever since we saw David Santon race down the touchline with Sammy Ameobi and mob Jonas Gutierrez, after Jonas scored that wonderful goal at Molineaux a few weeks ago, we've taken a shining to the young Italian. Davide Santon seems to just love Newcastle And it seems that Davide has settled so quickly on Tyneside, that his parents have now returned to Italy, earlier than first planned, [.

Capital Football have a clear mission to spread the game, the joy of the game.
So when the recent Futsal teams were announced for the National Championships to be played in Canberra there were some interesting mutterings from around the local futsal scene.
Previously Capital Football has run the Cobras and Colts, two teams in all divisions.

We reported the news in the summer that Newcastle were interested in signing Canadian youngster Junior Hoilet of Blackburn Rovers. Junior Hoilet Newcastle maintaining their interest At the time Blackburn manager Steve Kean was about to make the trip to Toronto, Canada to meet with Hoilet's parents, with the aim of getting him to sign a new [.

From the Evansville Courier Press, October 9, 2011
The players and teams that continue to get better as the season goes on often prescribe to focusing on the process of getting better, opposed to focusing solely on the outcome and results of their previous or upcoming games.
This applies not only to players or teams, but to coaches, too.

Chesterfield United FC parents David and Sarah Glass have recently returned to the country after a life changing trip to Kenya, Africa. They went to Africa in coalition with the Start With One Kenya project that is a non-profit organization that believes in individuals taking the step to join forces with other people to create the lasting change the world needs.

Guessing, the Neil Warnock face in the picture above pretty much sums up the Premier League weekend, which was ... eh?My ego isn't big enough, well hold that thought, let's frame it this way. Nobody on Earth -- my parents included -- want to waste 39 seconds of their Monday reading about me patting myself on the back for going 8-1 (through Sunday) on my EPL Round 6 picks.