{"id":896895,"date":"2026-10-27T23:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896895\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T23:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:34:12","slug":"police-called-to-florida-soccer-game-after-parents-say-three-year-old-benched-for-being-too-good-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896895\/","title":{"rendered":"Police called to Florida soccer game after parents say three-year-old benched for being too good | Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police were called after a dispute involving the parents of a three-year-old player at a soccer game in Florida<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The boy\u2019s parents can be heard on police body cameras<\/a> saying their son, Nevada, had been kicked out because he was too good at soccer and was embarrassing the other children. However, an organizer at the game said Nevada had pushed other children and his parents had become argumentative when their son was taken out of the game.<\/p>\n

In police body camera footage the organizer of the event, who works for i9 Sports, a youth sports group, can be heard saying Nevada\u2019s parents had caused a disturbance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kid is good. He\u2019s great. Really good,\u201d the organizer says in the footage. \u201cHe\u2019s very advanced compared to the other ones, so he\u2019s scoring a lot of goals. But he\u2019s pushing the kids … So, I try to tell him, don\u2019t push; we want to play without pushing, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

In audio of the 911 call<\/a>, the organizer says Nevada\u2019s mother was being \u201creally, really disruptive, following me around and calling me names in front of this whole bunch of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nevada\u2019s parents posted a clip of their son<\/a> at the event in which he can be seen dribbling around older children with ease. The video has since gone viral. Nevada cannot be seen pushing any other children in the footage posted by his parents.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey\u2019re mad at my son because he actually plays soccer. They\u2019re literally kicking him out of this place because he\u2019s good at soccer,\u201d his mother says in the body camera footage. \u201cFirst, they said he\u2019s not passing, but nobody\u2019s catching the ball when he\u2019s passing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The i9 Sports worker told police they were willing to give Nevada\u2019s parents a refund if they left.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want him out. Immediately,\u201d the organizer told police. \u201cJust give me their names so I can give them their refund.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Winter Park Police Department said the family agreed to leave the event and no one was arrested.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe family stated the game was over and they were leaving. The family was cooperative with the officers,\u201d the department wrote in a statement on its website. \u201cNo one was arrested, trespassed, or forced to leave the park.\u201d<\/p>\n

i9 Sports said it was reviewing the incident and had contacted Nevada\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware of concerns being shared regarding an incident at a local i9 Sports program, and we take them very seriously,\u201d i9 Sports said in a statement. \u201cThe respectful treatment and well-being of every child and family matter deeply to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

One officer appeared to want to see more of Nevada though. \u201cI kind of want to see him play. I bet he\u2019s good,\u201d he can be heard saying to another officer on body camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were called after a dispute involving the parents of a three-year-old player at a soccer game in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-896895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}