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Police bodycam debunks ‘too good’ claim as parents of 3-year-old soccer prodigy push GoFundMe
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Police bodycam debunks ‘too good’ claim as parents of 3-year-old soccer prodigy push GoFundMe

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Police Called After 3-Year-Old Pulled From Youth Soccer Game for Dominating Play

Police were called to break up a heated sideline confrontation at a 5U youth soccer match after a family was forced to leave the field. Tensions flared when a league official intervened and pulled an unusually dominant 3-year-old player off the pitch to give other children a chance to touch the ball. The decision sparked an immediate disturbance with the boy's parents, escalating to the point where law enforcement had to be dispatched to escort the family from the park.

Despite new bodycam footage released to OutKick showing that police were called because the parents were disruptive — not because their 3-year-old was "too good" for a predominantly White 5U beginner soccer league — a Florida family continues to push that claim while raising money on GoFundMe.

On Saturday, Winter Park police were dispatched to a city soccer field to handle a disturbance called in by a soccer league director who told police that the family of…

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