Player Arrested for Punching Referee at Senior Citizens Soccer Game

From time to time on this little ol’ blog we have brought you stories of soccer parents gone mad at youth soccer games. In an effort to avoid being labled “ageist”, today we bring you the story of the man pictured to the left. That is Amador Yankenes. You don’t want to meet up with him in a dark alley nor do you want to be the referee of the senior citizens soccer games in which he plays.

The 57-year-old Yankenes was arrested 15 minutes into the second half of a game in a league for players 55 and above last Friday in Miami. He evidently wasn’t very fond of the 55-year-old referee, Nicholas Sismanidis.

Yenkenes had been agitated all night, disagreed with a call and kicked the ball in anger, Sismanidis said. That drew a red card and an ejection.

He punched Sismanidis in the jaw and ran. The referee, a civil engineer who also officiates college soccer games, called Miami-Dade police.

”The guy has some loose screws in his head,” said Sismanidis, a state-registered referee.

What is this world coming to? Senior citizens soccer? Whatever happened to the good old days when you only had to worry about your parents being beaten up by their caretakers in the retirement home in which you dumped them?

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