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.
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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.
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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.
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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 !!!!
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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.
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