An adult spectator is likely facing indefinite suspension from attending youth soccer games after assaulting a young referee during a match between two teenage clubs in Quebec. The event took place during a May 7 match between Celtix du Haut-Richelieu and Saint-Laurent—two boy’s teams in the U-14 category—in Dollard-Des-Ormeaux, a town southwest of Montreal. “I am really shocked by such violence. … It is really troubling as an image, it is quite the opposite of what we want to advocate as a message,” Mathieu Chamberland, general manager of Soccer Quebec that oversees the league, told the French-language tabloid Le Journal de Montréal.
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