🗞️ Story file #1034
Police called to youth soccer game over dispute involving 3-year-old player
Oct 27, 4 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET
- 9outlets carried it
- 🫏6 · 0 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 14 hourson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 12people retold it online
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 27, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Washington Times
- Oct 27, 8 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
- Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 12 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “Too Good” 2 “Traumatized,” “too good”
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Breitbart (3 wordings): “Parents’ Claim Cops Were Called on Three-Year-Old Soccer Player for Being ‘Too Good’ Debunked” → “WATCH: Florida Parents’ Claim Cops Were Called on Three-Year-Old Soccer Player for Being ‘Too Good’ Debunked”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Police Were Called On A 3-Year-Old’s Soccer Game, Leaving Him ‘Traumatized,’ Mother Says Oct 26, 2 PM ET
The Guardian
Police called to game after parents say three-year-old benched for being too good Oct 27, 9 AM ET
ABC News
Mom of 3-year-old speaks out after police called over dispute at youth soccer game Oct 27, 6 PM ET
CBS News
Video of police being called to youth soccer game draws outrage Oct 26, 10 PM ET
Los Angeles Times
Were Florida police called over a 3-year-old’s soccer skills? Here’s what police body cams show Oct 27, 8 PM ET
NBC News
Florida police called to youth soccer game after alleged dispute involving 3-year-old player Oct 27, 10 AM ET
The Washington Times
Orlando-area cops called to children's soccer game over dispute between family, officials Oct 27, 4 PM ET
Breitbart
Parents’ Claim Cops Were Called on Three-Year-Old Soccer Player for Being ‘Too Good’ Debunked Oct 27, 7 PM ET
New York Post
Police bodycam footage reveals tense scene over removal of ‘too good’ 3-year-old soccer player Oct 26, 11 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Police were called to a youth soccer game after a dispute involving a 3-year-old player and his parents. Oct 28: told by 12 people
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Florida Parents Police Youth Soccer Game 3-Year-Old
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.