Nevada is three years old. On Saturday morning in Winter Park, Florida, his youth soccer game ended with a 911 call, two police officers, and a little boy in tears, all because the older kids could not get the ball off him.

Nevada plays up, in an i9 Sports league built for 5-year-olds. Week after week, the same thing happens: nobody can take the ball from him. His family says he scored 10 goals in one game, and that even after being substituted multiple times in a game of about 30 minutes, he kept scoring. Clips of him have already been picked up by House of Highlights and ESPN FC.

What Happened on Saturday

The game was played Saturday, October 25, at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Winter Park. Around 9:50 AM, league director Thomas Hayes called 911 to report a disturbance involving Nevada’s parents, describing the mother as disruptive and following him. Two Winter Park officers arrived around 10 AM.

According to the police event report, the director told officers the parents were upset about their son’s playing time. The parents were told their child would no longer be allowed to play in the league “due to behavior,” and that any refund was a civil matter.

The parents told officers their son was being scorned for playing too well and was being taken out of the game, and that the game was over and they were leaving. In the family’s own video, Nevada’s father, Don, puts it plainly: “They really called the police on a 3 year old because he had the ball too much.”

The Correction: No Trespass, No Escort

The story went viral fast, and the first versions of it got key facts wrong. So here is the accurate record, confirmed by both sides.

Winter Park Police and Nevada’s mother both clarify that there was NO trespass notice, NO arrest, and nobody was forced to leave the park. Police treated the matter as civil. Officers watched the family walk to their car; they did not escort them.

The family also received a refund for the fall registration.

Early viral reports claiming a trespass and a police escort were wrong, according to Nevada’s mother herself. Nation is publishing the correction up front, because the accurate version is the story.

“He Thought He Did Something Bad”

Nevada’s mother says the hardest part came after. Her son cried, traumatized, thinking he had done something bad, and wondering if maybe he should have just not scored so many times.

She says other parents had complained that their kids were not getting playing time because of Nevada. This is a child who started dribbling at 10 months old and trains with his father three hours a day. In January, he is set to join former pro Eddie Johnson’s Orlando youth training program.

i9 Sports said it is aware of the concerns, takes them seriously, and is working to understand what happened. The league offered Nevada a place in a different league. His mother declined.

Fans React

The reaction has been loud. Former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III criticized the police call publicly, and The Breakfast Club weighed in on the story as well. The overwhelming fan response has been the same question from every angle: since when is a toddler’s talent a police matter?

A 3-year-old dominated a game, adults argued, a league made a call, and a child walked away thinking his goals were the problem. The record is now straight on what police did and did not do. What happens next for Nevada’s football is the part worth watching.

Reporting by the New York Post, Baller Alert, and HuffPost contributed to this story. Original footage by the family, @nevadaney10 on TikTok.

Photo: @nevadaney10 via TikTok