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Buuuuullllshit is all I've gotta say.

You play to win while developing players. I've coached plenty of games where we easily could have won by 20+ points but chose a different route. In league play I typically put restrictions on the players if we are up by more than 4 or 5 points. Lil Lookout has played almost entire games only being allowed to score with his left foot or his head, or having 3 complete passes before a shot on goal, or any of a dozen different challenges that will keep the fight going but even it up a little. I will NEVER tell a child not to score but I will absolutely positively make it harder for them to do so.

One of my adult leagues adopted a new rule after some blowout games last year. If your team is losing by 6 points you get to add a player to the field. If you go down by 8 another player can come on. This rule promptly became known as the "bitch rule" and jeers of "BITCH!" would follow every single time the extra players touched the ball. The rule still stands, but teams don't add players anymore.

Sports, like life, are unfair. Suck it up and learn from it.