| Type of Incident: | Sportsmanship — May be used if a team, player, coach, or spectator is involved. |
| Match Number: | 12976 |
| Date of Incident: | 2023-10-25 |
| Time of Incident: | 18:30:00 |
| Location of Incident: | Woodward Park Field 2, Manteca |
| Competition: | 2024 Fall League |
| Home Team: | Rangers United 08B |
| Visiting Team: | Soccerforkids.org Select FC 08 |
| Age Group and Gender: | U16B |
| Team Affiliation of Individual Committing Incident: | Rangers United 08B |
| Incident Summary: | A confrontation between players on the two teams broke out. Manteca spectators entered the field to break up the fight. Soccer for Kids spectators also entered the field but did not involve themselves in the confrontation. There is a further allegations that the two coaches asked the referee not to file any send-offs or an Incident Report and that the two teams would handle the discipline themselves. |
| Comments: | The coach of the Manteca team, Pablo Contreras, and the coach of the Soccer for kids team, Ernesto Pelafox, are each suspended 4 games - 2 for failing to control their team's spectators and 2 for failing to control their team's players.
Updated after the acquisiton of additional information: Coach Jonathan Ortiz of Manteca was the head coach of the team and is suspended 4 games - 2 for failure to control his team's spectators and 2 for failing to control his team's parents. The suspension of coach Contreras is revoked.
There were no send-offs issued in this match despite the match being terminated for a mass confrontation. In the future, the referee should issue send-offs to the appropriate players any time there is a mass confrontation. |
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