Sometimes soccer players may forget the rules, especially when things get a little intense or heated out on the field. However, you would think that they would at least remember what sport they are playing. In one Texas high school playoff game, a goalie from Irving High pretended to be Brian Urlacher when stopping a one-on-one breakaway by leveling the opposing forward. Video is available in several outlets, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Dirty Tackle blog.
This has not been a good week for Texas high school sports. First, you had the hockey championship brawl between Keller and Arlington Martin high schools, and now this illegal hit. It seems to be the start of a disturbing trend. Add to that the news of a couple of baseball players from Western Hills High getting suspended for sacrificing live chickens on the baseball field, and you wonder what is going on. Is it the heat, or is something else?
Soccer goalie takes out striker with football-style hit [Prep Rally]
A lesson for the kids at home: tackling is for football, not soccer.The culprit in question in the clip above is Irving (Texas) High's goalie (a thorough web search couldn't pull up his full identity), who took out Mansfield (Texas) Legacy High striker Josh Rodriguez on the play. Quite deservedly, the Irving keeper received a second yellow card for the challenge, which landed him a red card and a dismissal from the game. One has to assume that if he wasn't already playing on a yellow card he would have received a straight red for the "challenge."
This has not been a good week for Texas high school sports. First, you had the hockey championship brawl between Keller and Arlington Martin high schools, and now this illegal hit. It seems to be the start of a disturbing trend. Add to that the news of a couple of baseball players from Western Hills High getting suspended for sacrificing live chickens on the baseball field, and you wonder what is going on. Is it the heat, or is something else?
Soccer goalie takes out striker with football-style hit [Prep Rally]
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