We have a 11 year old grandson who played Soccer for three years here in Australia prior to going to the United Kingdom for two years, where he played Soccer with other kids his own age in London for two seasons.
The family has now returned home and have no plans to go overseas again any time soon so grandson wants to play soccer again with the same team he used to play with prior to going overseas.
It Should be very simple to go and register with the team to start playing this season, or so we thought we have to supply a copy of his passport, proof of residence in the local area,
so good so far then we discovered that our 11 year old grandson can never play Soccer in Australia until he gets a formal written release from the club he played with in
The Soccer association here in Australia could not guarantee security or privacy for documents provided and even at the age of 11 you have to sign a document allowing the association to use your name and photos any time they like without any contact with the player or their parents.
Has anyone else ever experianced this and if so what did you do to resolve the issues and the stupidity of the Soccer association.
Dougwe said
04:53 PM Mar 30, 2017
Sounds a bit much and over the top for junior Soccer, AT.
My late son was involved in Local, State then National Baseball and I don't remember anything like that red tape.
Mike Harding said
06:42 PM Mar 30, 2017
This kind of control obsessed power structure makes me very angry and should be contested every step of the way. It is related to my reasons for wanting to opt out and live in the bush.
A "formal release"?! From what? An 11 year old is too young to have entered into any kind of contract from which he needs to be "released".
I suggest the parents don't fight it but simply find another club who don't know the lad; tell the new club he doesn't have a passport and has never played formal football (soccer is for Americans :) ) The parents can supply a gas bill or such as proof of residence.
>even at the age of 11 you have to sign a document
Let him sign it... it has no legal validity when signed by a child.
I'd also let one the holier-than-thou journalists, TV programmes etc know of this. Just think of all the allusions to potential information for paedophiles this could provide? That should make the Football Federation Australia sit up and think.
macka17 said
12:39 AM Mar 31, 2017
Just sign him into a proper footy club. Rugby. League or Union.
No crap there. The kids play, bruise, and proudly show them to others.
Hockey is another good one. My two boys. Girl and missus did that
Daughter was A grade.
Me. I was a runner. Outrun anybody with a big stick.
chuckle.
Desert Dweller said
05:58 AM Mar 31, 2017
Our local senior Aussie Rules club is fed by 5 local junior clubs as far as young players is concerned. They sign up all of the players hoping to get a game with them after leaving their junior clubs but there are too many of them for just one U18 team. The rest can't get a game & the club won't clear them to another opposition club, so the boys can't play & loose interest. Our local club has been doing this for many years. We took our son to another senior club before our local club signed him, he won a club best & fairest, runner up in league best & fairest & played in a winning premiership. We despise our local senior footy club.
macka17 said
05:28 PM Mar 31, 2017
"PING PONG"....
That's not footy.....
Chuckle.
Cupie said
07:48 PM Mar 31, 2017
macka17 wrote:
(Aerial) "PING PONG"....
That's not footy.....
We used to call ARL 'Kick & Giggle' or in our kinder moments 'Forcing Back'
I was amazed at the cost to get my Grandson ready to play soccer.
Chuckle.
Craig1 said
11:14 PM Mar 31, 2017
Union = " three blokes shoving two blokes up one blokes Clacker " me thinks, cheers Craig
macka17 said
07:58 PM Apr 1, 2017
Craig.
Back in the 1800, early 1900,s when a lot of men used women as punching bags and a lot of violence bred into people with the world wars.
These were "Testosterone" based games
that normal people and some tree trunks called humans.
Could go out in a paddock. minimum control.
Beat the sh-t out of each other for 80 min's LEGALLY..
Releasing some of the former.
Hence missus, kids. and mates.
Were. Sometimes, a little safer.
Just basically a Testosterone release mate.
Rugby is about the best one for that. preferaby Union.
Followed by boxing. but uggggh. not me thank's.
My eldest was a Pro for a while.
27 fights = win. 1 fight lost on points. retired.
Jeez dad. that took forever.
Too much like hard work thank's.
Next thing I heard, he was a Mercenary in Gambia.
I think I'd prefer knuckles to bullets myself.
He was doing mainly Armoured truck escorts in City's.
I bought him a fully Auto Schmeiser for his 25th.
Pity he couldn't bring it home with him hey.
With his Stainless Rem 870 short.
chris & terry said
10:04 PM Apr 4, 2017
A posting of my son and daughter-in-law about their son (my grandson)
Very annoying - poor Oscar can't play his first game of the season because of some silly rule about a card he should have got when registering- which we haven't been sent yet.
I suspect that it was the international transfer he had to complete prior to his registration being submitted that slowed the process.... bloody sports administrators !!!!
aussietraveller said
06:33 PM Apr 5, 2017
Its absolutely ridiculous that young children are being treated so poorly by the administrators of a major sport that is played world wide, you have to wonder if sports administrators in other countries are as stupid as our Aussie soccer ones who have effectively blocked my 11 year old grandson from ever enjoying a game of soccer again. I always thought it was valuable for young people to play sport and learn whats involved in being part of a team. well that aint going to happen now thanks to the Australian soccer federation.
My late son was involved in Local, State then National Baseball and I don't remember anything like that red tape.
This kind of control obsessed power structure makes me very angry and should be contested every step of the way. It is related to my reasons for wanting to opt out and live in the bush.
A "formal release"?! From what? An 11 year old is too young to have entered into any kind of contract from which he needs to be "released".
I suggest the parents don't fight it but simply find another club who don't know the lad; tell the new club he doesn't have a passport and has never played formal football (soccer is for Americans :) ) The parents can supply a gas bill or such as proof of residence.
>even at the age of 11 you have to sign a document
Let him sign it... it has no legal validity when signed by a child.
I'd also let one the holier-than-thou journalists, TV programmes etc know of this. Just think of all the allusions to potential information for paedophiles this could provide? That should make the Football Federation Australia sit up and think.
No crap there. The kids play, bruise, and proudly show them to others.
Hockey is another good one. My two boys. Girl and missus did that
Daughter was A grade.
Me. I was a runner. Outrun anybody with a big stick.
chuckle.
That's not footy.....
Chuckle.
Back in the 1800, early 1900,s when a lot of men used women as punching bags and a lot of violence bred into people with the world wars.
These were "Testosterone" based games
that normal people and some tree trunks called humans.
Could go out in a paddock. minimum control.
Beat the sh-t out of each other for 80 min's LEGALLY..
Releasing some of the former.
Hence missus, kids. and mates.
Were. Sometimes, a little safer.
Just basically a Testosterone release mate.
Rugby is about the best one for that. preferaby Union.
Followed by boxing. but uggggh. not me thank's.
My eldest was a Pro for a while.
27 fights = win. 1 fight lost on points. retired.
Jeez dad. that took forever.
Too much like hard work thank's.
Next thing I heard, he was a Mercenary in Gambia.
I think I'd prefer knuckles to bullets myself.
He was doing mainly Armoured truck escorts in City's.
I bought him a fully Auto Schmeiser for his 25th.
Pity he couldn't bring it home with him hey.
With his Stainless Rem 870 short.
Very annoying - poor Oscar can't play his first game of the season because of some silly rule about a card he should have got when registering- which we haven't been sent yet.
I suspect that it was the international transfer he had to complete prior to his registration being submitted that slowed the process.... bloody sports administrators !!!!