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Your child played 25 minutes in an 80-minute game and the coach offered no explanation. What you can ask for and how.

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Eighty-minute game. Your child played 25 of them. They came off at the 28-minute mark and did not go back on. The drive home was two-handed silence and team WhatsApp lighting up with a thank-you-coach thread you scrolled past three times. You ran them a bath, sat at the kitchen table with a cold cup of tea, and tried to decide if you were overreacting.

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