Too much youth?

Altenerding and the point deduction

Created: 09/10/2022, 10:15 am

By: Dieter Priglmeir

Dieter Priglmeir © private

Who can stop the Altenerdinger footballers in the district class?

Maybe a defeat before the sports court?

Here is the story of a very confusing youth regulation - and the story of the Schwaiger exchange of blows.

“Young people are to be accustomed to obedience so that they may find it easy to obey reason.”

This is the Pythagorean theorem.

Well, at least one of his not so good ones.

He's said to have been much better at math, but I don't understand anything about that.

So back to youth and the following quote: "Young people suffer less from their own mistakes than from the wisdom of the old." That is from the French philosopher Luc de Clapiers and is almost 300 years old.

How right he is.

And at the time he didn't even know anything about the so-called reduction in age.

Two years ago, the football clubs decided to turn the clock

and take away a year of junior football from young people or treat them to an extra year of men's football.

It's all in the eye of the beholder.

It's just stupid that this only applies to the Donau/Isar football district (Erding, Freising, Ingolstadt, Pfaffenhofen).

In the rest of Upper Bavaria, the A-Youth does not go up to U18, but up to U19.

That sounds like complications,

and there are.

Sometimes it's just a little weird.

For example, when those boys play against each other in the Merkur CUP who play in a JFG-D youth team (U 11/U 12) in the point round, but in the world's largest E youth tournament (U 10/U 11) for their home clubs are active.

The case that is currently occupying the sports court is even more grotesque.

The outcome is still open, but district league leaders SpVgg Altenerding may lose the three points he scored two weeks ago by beating FC Hohenpolding 4-0.

The guests have now lodged a protest against the rating because SpVgg had substituted a youth player who had previously been active in the second.

And youth players are not allowed to play twice in one day.

"That's right," says SpVgg soccer boss Andreas Heilmaier and confirms the following:

When the score was 3-0, Pedro Locke sent Josef Falih onto the field "to give the boy a little match practice".

He had actually previously played in the reserve game (5-0 for Altenerding 2).

Heilmaier also concedes: "But the question now is: is a 2004 vintage really still a youth player?" Curiously, there are two interpretations: 1. Yes, in Upper Bavaria, 2004 vintage count as youth.

2. No, in the Donau/Isar football district not really because of the decision to lower the age.

The problem is this "actually",

because the use of 2004ers is not explicitly regulated due to the age reduction in the youth game regulations, which is why the district youth leader Florian Weißmann, who is reportedly quite annoyed, also has to deal with cases in Ingolstadt and Pfaffenhofen.

And in Erding, where, according to Heilmaier, the sports court is also having a hard time making a decision, "because the 2004ers are neither clearly youth nor men's players," as Altenerding's football boss says.

"We don't think we did anything wrong," he emphasizes again.

The game was also no longer greatly influenced, "because we changed in the 66th minute when the score was 3-0".

The Altenerdinger official is "already clear that the latter naturally has no effect on the decision".

He also understands FC Hohenpolding,

that they take the chance when they see a violation of the rules.

"I would certainly have done it the other way around," he admits and is now awaiting the verdict.

How it ends is completely open, believes Heilmaier, for whom only one thing is clear: "The reduction in age has not been thought through to the end in many paragraphs."

Which brings us to a spectator action,

which happened in the state league game between SpVgg Landshut and FC Schwaig.

It was not only thoughtless, but a "Punch and Punch show", as a witness says.

But first to the sport: the game ended 5:3 and was a real advertisement for football.

The two teams delivered an open exchange of blows.

Unfortunately, two viewers took that too literally.

During an interruption - the ball had just been shot wide - a Landshut and a Schwaig fan clashed, who had previously been unable to agree on the referee's decisions, as our eyewitness reports.

Provoked by the other, one "knocked the cap off the other's head and then received a punch."

He would call it a scuffle rather than a brawl.

Brawl, wrangling, Punch and Judy show?

In any case, the referee didn't find it funny, only restarted the game after three and a half minutes and reported the incident to the association.

And now?

FC Schwaig refers to the pending proceedings and therefore does not want to comment on the incident.

Also not whether and to what extent he will sue the known fan internally, should the club get a penalty.

The trouble with Lower Bavaria on the one hand and the trouble with the club on the other hand is now also very embarrassing.

Because: "Anger begins in folly and ends in remorse."