Georgia youth football coach banned for life after assaulting player, LeBron James speaks out on incident
The coach was identified in a video that went viral this week
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A Georgia youth football coach has been banned for life from the league after a video surfaced of him assaulting a player during a game on Monday. The video showed the coach of a nine-and-under youth football team from Savannah, Georgia striking a player twice in the helmet.
The incident took place on Monday during the team s opening game at the American Youth Football National Championships in Kissimmee, Florida. American Youth Football received the video on Tuesday morning and told Yahoo Sports that the coach s actions were a complete breach of the organization s code of conduct.
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A youth football coach has been fired after video of him punching a child went viral. NBA baller
LeBron James blasted him over his disturbing actions and now the pee wee coach is apologizing. More inside…
UPDATE:
Gerrell Williams - the youth football coach who was seen striking one of the young players will now be charged with child abuse, despite the mother declining to press charges. TMZ reports: The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office along with our local state attorney’s office have reviewed this case and the decision has been made that charges for child abuse will be filed, regardless of parent’s decision not to press charges, Maj. Jacob Ruiz said. The actions of this person are despicable and there is zero-tolerance when it comes to the abuse of a child.
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An adult 9U football coach in Georgia was seen in a viral video aggressively punching a child at least two times.
In the video, the angry man appears to aggressively deliver a hard right-hand punch to the child’s helmet twice. He also grabs the boy and shakes him while another adult stands nearby. A third man comes over to the situation but does not intervene.
A screen shot shows youth football coach Gerrel Wiiliams seconds after he slaps a nine-year-old player for the 9U Savannah Gators during the American Youth Football National Championships.
One tweet of the video calls the interaction “pure cowardice.”