Every weekend there are hundreds, thousands, children who go to soccer fields accompanied by their families to enjoy their love of sports. And, in parallel to the push of women in higher categories, where they maintain their battle to dignify their work (and their salary), there are many soccer schools of towns and cities that, in the hands of regional federations, have gone encouraging the participation of girls and channeling their enthusiasm for playing. The women's football project in the Valencian Community bears the motto #Valenta .

In that almost unattainable universe of cherub, benjamin or fry parties, many anecdotes happen. Most cheerful, even jocular. Details of enormous sportsmanship, companionship and effort that almost always go unnoticed. These gestures of fair play are rewarded since this season with the green card that the referee can show "in recognition of the exceptional sports actions in the competition".

But there are also others that do not represent the values ​​of sport, education in respect for the opposite and the healthy competitiveness that also has a place in grassroots practice and that coaches and clubs must know how to channel so as not to lose the pedagogical background of the competition in good lid. The bad behavior implies, according to the regulation, yellow or red card, expulsion and sanction, which are applied when the players are already fully aware to understand the punitive gesture.

One of these unsportsmanlike events, which should provoke a reflection between the coaches and the clubs is what happened this Saturday in the field of Biensa CF de Sagunto , in the match played by his women's team of the Benjamin category (8 years) against the neighbors of the Canet CD , formed entirely by children of the same age. The Biensa CF, with all its girls recently released in football - and, therefore, still in formation - was beaten mercilessly and unsportsmanlike by the opposing team. Canet fights with El Planter for the leadership of this group and did not miss the opportunity to hit the opponent (the girls of the Biensa Benjamin) for 0 goals to 23. The match belonged to Group 9 of first-year Benjamin of Valencia, a mixed competition

In this type of categories and ages, it is usual for markers of this style to be avoided by coaches, to avoid humiliations that end up demotivating children , in this case girls, of the opposite team. In fact, when the superiority is overwhelming, instructions are usually given to the players themselves so that they do not end up giving excessively bulky results, as explained by EL MUNDO the president of Biensa CF, Blas Porrero . The manager can not hide his disappointment by the devastating effect that the win has had on the morale of the girls, who also had the eight fair players to face the game (in this category football is played 8). In fact, the tightness of the template forces them to incorporate other children to play every weekend.

"Many of them ended the game crying, wanting not to play anymore and not to step on a pitch again," says the manager. In his opinion, the coach of the CD Canet should have taken some measure to contain the score. But not only did he not, but he was even encouraged , goals were celebrated on the bench and in the stands even more goals were requested so that one of the players could be "pichichi".

Why did girls face boys? Since it is not yet easy to have full templates of women's teams in these categories, the federation allows clubs to enroll their girls teams in leagues mostly played by boys , more accustomed to contact with the ball. But no one can deny that the dedication and enthusiasm are the same, both in girls and boys. "Sometimes it is preferable because in these ages a year of difference is very noticeable and it is better that children against girls of the same age are confronted to do so only among girls, but there are differences of four years of age," says Blas Porrero .

The Biensa CF school preferred that the ten new girls who signed up to play in the Benjamin category played in a league adjusted to their age and not in the women's only competition, where benjaminas and alevinas are grouped, with differences of up to four years. "From the beginning we knew that it would be difficult for them to win a match, that is what the opposing teams know and always tend to take it into account when the result is already wide and their victory is guaranteed," says the president of Biensa. "But something fails when a coach allows his children to humiliate on the contrary with this type of results," he says.

For Blas Porrero, the background is the regulation that takes into account the number of goals scored in favor of deciding the winner of the competition in case of a tie. "If the Planter team, who are leading, put us 15, for example, comes the Canet, which is second, and wants to put 23 in case the goals decide the league." And that, he says, "has such harmful consequences for promoting sportsmanship in football." Blas Porrero is not against competitiveness: "On the contrary, I consider the competition to be good, but the Federation should consider another way to decide the winners, not to provoke these things."

For his part, the sports director of the CD Canet, Pau Barrachina, also in statements to THE WORLD, said he did not know in detail what had happened. In fact, in the middle of Sunday afternoon he still did not know the result that had occurred in the game of the Saturday. Even so, it was resounding: "I agree that such behavior cannot occur, it is absolutely intolerable and unsportsmanlike, " he said. "The possibility of winning a league does not justify this bulky result at all, we advise our coaches to avoid it," he explained.

The sports manager of the Canet school is clear: "I am not interested in a team from my school being champion doing these things . " Barrachina promised to have a conversation with her coach to ask for explanations. To make matters worse, the coach is a player of the Biensa veterans, something that has angered Blas Porrero, its president, who will probably take exemplary measures.

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