J.C. Handly Sports Complex, Brandon FL

Had a horrible experience on Monday night. A group of us regularly play here on fields that are not being used for practice. For the first time we had our game interrupted by a man screaming at us that we are not allowed to play here. We responded that this is a public park and we always play here on Mondays on a field not being used. The gentleman continued to scream at us and get in our face. He proceeded to call the police to trespass us from a public park… this man is no other than Sergio Rapuano the Director of Goalkeeping for the west Florida flames. He displayed such a disgusting behavior unbecoming of a fellow soccer player. He treated us with disrespect. All we wanted to do was play soccer, instead we were threatened and verbally insulted by Sergio Rapuano. The field we were playing on was not being used nor was going to be used by anyone else. He admitted that. He said no one was using the field but he doesn’t care because he “pays 500,000 a year for them” He simply didn’t want us there and tried to kick us out of this taxpayer funded park. For a former professional soccer player to act so unprofessional and hostile just because he feels entitled that his league helps manages the fields. This is a public park funded by taxpayer dollars and he has no right to interfere with the public playing on fields not being used for practice.

While the park is a poorly designed wedge of land with a lack of adequate parking spots for the number of fields, the true horror of having to play here is not only the fields conditions, but the home team and their parents. Granted each time I've been there, it's been a valuable teaching lesson for my kid. Next time the parents are heckling your free kick, ask the ref to deal with them. When the WFF players cuss at you on the field, be the bigger person and just play on. But it is clear the apple doesn't fall far and the WFF are encouraged to body their opponents, thus making the game dangerous. The refs, like Pavlov's dogs, are conditioned with this ultra-aggressive normality and no longer question the behavior. These mediocre fields and the trashy behavior demonstrated at this park (on and off the field) earned this one star review. This town is in the running for the armpit of the state. Do not visit. Drive on.

Fields were horrible to play on. They need to play on certain ones while fixing others. Then rotate them. Field 2b today is how kids get hurt.

Neighborhood soccer only fields. Not good place to walk your dog during the day. Rude maintenance worker with god complex. Also, lot of trash in the parking lot. Almost stepped on a used condom. Too few trashcan and too many entitled kids.

Our grandson playes soccer at these fields. Usually crowded, but fields well marked and overall complex well maintained.

Nice walking trails, lots of parking, relatively clean bathrooms, pretty area

The park is nice, the homeless people using the bus stop and the parents who bring their children and leave behind all of their trash not so much.