Parent-Volunteers Take AYSO to Court Over DQ

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Earlier this month, parent-volunteers for the Ventura (Calif.) Fighting Yams, a U-10 boys' soccer team, testified in the Ventura County Superior Court against the American Youth Soccer Organization in protest of the team’s disqualification from the 2016 season playoffs for failing to meet the minimum requirement for weekly referee points.

Parent-volunteers filed a complaint asking for an emergency restraining order to stop the disqualification and an injunction against AYSO Region 39 officials. According to Gil Torres, commissioner for Region 39, AYSO disqualified the Fighting Yams on the grounds that the team did not meet the minimum requirement for parent-volunteer referees.

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