Hey off topic users.I’m going to provide a little bit of context to the situation to help out but there is a tldr at the bottom for a quick summary. I’m a high school student entering my junior year and I have been having consistent trouble with a kid on the same soccer team as me,and am trying to stop it from heating up into a physical fight and generally calm tension down with my teammate as I don’t wish to be fighting with anyone in any sort of drama especially on my own team. At the last practice he said he was going to smash me and kept trying to discredit me in front of the coach.He was trying to be as physically aggressive as possible with me and kept throwing petty insults my way. He then started kicking me when I took the ball from him(I’m a defender,he’s a forward) in the 20 of my own goal but I’m much bigger and stronger than him and he just fell down and got laughed at by the whole team. My temper got the better of me and even though i was shutting him out offensively the fact that he was physically attacking me made me mad at him and I effortlessly sweeped him off his feet while I was tying my shoe the next time his team got the ball. He fell down face first and stayed away from me the rest of the game.His verbal insults had stopped(he had been insulting me ever since we began practice at the beggining of summer) and he steered clear from me the rest of the game(jumped away when I was going after the ball or passed it off). He’s a troubled kid and though I don’t like to let little things get to me like insults I’m not just going to let him push on me. I’m trying to de escalate the situation before it turns to violence as I would pummel him in a fist fight no issue I try and avoid hurting people and like I said he’s troubled and might try it with a gun or a knife. TLDR: I’m trying to stop a fight with a kid on my soccer team.I have no wish to hurt him or anyone else but he keeps trying to escalate things when I tell him to lay off or leave me alone.I know it’s weird to post this on off topic but I have no social media and don’t want to worry my parents.Anyway any helpful answers would be appreciated and feel free to have some fun with the posts.