A peewee football coach is seen striking one of his players in the head in a now-viral video, causing widespread outrage. Many commented on the video stating that football coaches get physical with players when reprimanding them, but the one being chastised was a 9-year-old boy.
The incident happened at a game in Kissimmee, Florida, at the American Youth Football National Championships. The coach for the Savannah Gators is captured, hitting the player in the head at the start of what appeared to be a timeout. In a since-deleted Facebook post, the Savannah Gators organization wrote, "Please keep the negative comments off this page please this organization has great coaches we understand what we all saw yesterday was disturbing to us all but let’s not blame everyone for one mans actions."
"The organization is not at Nationals we have only 2 age groups a National 7U & 9U with only those coaches of those age groups witch [sic] the guy in the video is our 9U head coach he is a good guy that just took it a little to [sic] far on a 9U player we understand and we are aware of what’s going on and will like to apologize to the #BigPeachConference…." the statement continued.
Source: twitter.com
