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You don’t develop talent simply by forcing players to share the ball. You actually kill it. Keeping the ball is the number one skill to be learned by a soccer player.

I'd like to take a moment to point out that the child's race is mentioned exclusively by the people reporting this story. At no point was the child's race mentioned by the police or by the parents who called them.

Although those parents may have privately considered race a factor, there is no indication that they explicitly mentioned it or that it played any stated role in their decision to have this family trespassed from the property.

And that's precisely my point: the child's race is completely irrelevant to how petty and ridiculous this situation already is. Having a family trespassed because their child was supposedly too good at soccer is absurd enough on its own.

I hate that the article's headline goes out of its way to mention the child's race, seemingly for no other reason than to generate clicks and stir up controversy. And, of course, the comment section falls for it hook, line, and sinker. Suddenly, everyone is convinced that race must have been the issue.

Maybe race played a role behind the scenes, or maybe it didn't. We don't have enough information to know. But the people reporting this story have made it a central part of the narrative, and the comment section has run with it as though it's an established fact.

The underlying story is already ridiculous enough. We don't need journalists injecting racial controversy into it without evidence just to generate engagement.