ANDa small fight between young players. Then A forty -year -old father climbs the fence and enters the field. But not to appease the spirits: to beat the stronger. He takes it with an opponent of his son, the goalkeeper: he hits him with a fist in the face, He throws him on the ground and continues to hit him. It happened in Collegno, in the Turin area, after the challenge between Carmagnola and Volpiano Pianese Under 14 of the Super Oscar, a youth football tournament. The 13 -year -old boy reported the fracture of the malleolus and a strong bruise to the cheekbone. The parent author of the attack was identified by the carabinieri.
If a father beats the 13 -year -old goalkeeper, his son’s opponent
«A serious fact, but unfortunately not surprising. Only the first of the season, alas. Yet another collection which records hundreds of cases every year, especially in football, but not only ». Alessandro Crisafulli, founder of Sports parents school. It refers to the cases of parents who, on the sidelines, cheer on their children as real ultras, not saving insults and aggression. Who break into the games and that, instead of transmitting the foundations of sport to their boys, they teach violence with the example.
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Sports Parents School is a unique raltà at national level, born two years ago precisely to oppose this degeneration of cheering by fathers (above all) and mothers: in two years it has formed over 10 thousand people in 15 Italian regions.
A 13 -year -old photo, goalkeeper of the Volpiano Pianese, attacked and beaten by a parent of the opposing team on a football field in Collegno, during a game of the Under 14 tournament between CSF Carmagnola and Volpiano Pianese. The young footballer reported the fracture of Malleolo, September 1, 2025. ANSA ++ NPK +++
“We are witnessing an unacceptable escalation that must be argued.” The causes? “Youth football is a result-hentric system that feeds, and feeds, adults is. They prevent obsession with the result, to be achieved at all costs and by any means, and unbridled championism. They command expectations, and the manìe, of parents, coaches and managers. Not all, fortunately, but too many ». And the boys, often 7-8 years old children, are subjected to unsustainable pressure, “and with the consequence it is that many decide to give up”.
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What can be done to stem the phenomenon? “It is necessary Build a new sports culture, focusing on training and prevention. Teaming between political, sports, academic and school world institutions, sports clubs, educational agencies, to get to a drastic climate change of youth sport, which is too polluted today. Just what sports parents school is trying to do, collecting healthy forces, and doing An immense reclamation and purifying action. For the good of the boys and sport ».