Mom of viral 3-year-old soccer star speaks out about police being called to game - CBS News
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Martasia Griffin has her hands full with her 3-year-old son, Nevada. But not in the way most mothers do. Instead, she's busy juggling her young soccer phenom's talent, training and incoming business inquiries."I do handle most of his email, business calls. He has a lot of deals," Griffin told "CBS Mornings." "I don't really want to get him into business, (but) soccer is really expensive and people have fell in love with him. I don't want to shy away from people actually loving him."Nevada Pierre already had a large social media following, but drew national media attention last month when organizers at a youth soccer game called 911 and body camera footage from the incident went viral. His mother claims the youth soccer director called police simply because they wanted to kick him out for being so much better than the other players. However, in the 911 audio the youth league director said Nevada's parents were being disruptive. "He's really advanced compared to the other ones. He's scoring a lot of goals, but he's pushing the kids and scoring," the director was seen saying on police body camera video. The league director continues to say he had told the kids not to push while they're playing, and that there was another incident with Nevada's parents a few weeks earlier when he swapped some of the players out, including Nevada."He made the one goal that was so fast and they stopped the game and parents, director, coaches all got in one circle without me and his father," Griffin told "CBS Mornings." "So when I approached him about like, if this conversation is about my son, are you all stopping the game about my son, I should be included."Griffin said she and Pierre's father, Don, were not being disruptive: "No. I'm just trying to talk to (the league's director) about…
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