Fair Lawn Kids Soccer Coach Head-Butted Opposing Coach At Game: Police

FAIR LAWN, NJ — A youth soccer coach was charged with two counts of assault after he head-butted an opposing coach and assaulted a 9-year-old player at a game Sept. 10, police said.

Police responded to Berdan Grove Park at 4:17 p.m. on a report of fight on the soccer field, Sgt. Brian Metzler said.

Sean Cormack, 45, of Fair Lawn, was charged with two counts of simple assault after he head-butted an opposing coach after a verbal altercation about the game, Metzler said. The opposing coach is a 52-year-old man from Midland Park, he said.

Cormack also struck the coach's 9-year-old son with his hand as the boy and other players and coaches tried to break up the fight, police said.

The boy was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with dizziness, Metzler said. Cormack was taken to Valley Hospital with a head injury, he said.

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