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Video: Referee sends off entire team after riot in Argentina


Eighteen red cards dished out for bad behaviour

Football fans in South America are incapable of watching a game for five minutes without punching someone (evidence, more evidence, even more evidence), so the events that occurred in Argentina’s Primera C division last Saturday will surprise absolutely no one.

Barracas Bolivar were leading rivals General Lamadrid 3-0, but the match had to be abandoned after an hour when a fight broke out. Yahoo explains:

It started when three players and four staff from Lamadrid became involved in a dispute between the local fans of Bolivar.

The incident soon escalated and within moments all the players from the away side came over to defend their team-mates and staff, clashing with the supporters.

Plenty of punches were thrown and the violence had to be broken up by some of those present at the stadium.

As a result of the violence, the referee decided to send off the entire away team, including the seven substitutes, issuing a total of eighteen red cards.Lamadrid will now be forced to field a team of reserves and kids in their next match.

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Posted: March 25th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey

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Posted: December 22nd, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

Video: Goalkeeper uses a corner flag to attack riot police!


Who wants to see another South American football riot?

Our friends in South America tend to get an unfair wrap for their propensity to riot on the football field, but perhaps that’s because they do it so bloody often (evidence here, here, here and here). Over the weekend Bolivian champions Aurora played Wilsterman in an end of season tournament, during which a fist fight [2.30 in the video] saw a few of the players receive their marching orders. Wilsterman’s Eduardo Zenteno refused to leave the pitch, and a team of riot police escorted him from the field [5.00]. Clearly, Zenteno objected and a full scale brawl broke out, and police defended themselves from players’ karate kicks with pepper spray. Aurora keeper Silvio Dulcich even starts attacking the lawmen with a corner flag!

Amazingly, the ref chose not to banadon the game, but played after Wilsterman protested. Perhaps they shouldn’t have insisted so much, as Aurora came out 1-0 winners.

[Unprofessional Foul]

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Posted: November 11th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

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Posted: October 30th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

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Posted: September 8th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

Video: Anyone up for some Brazilian police brutality?


Unarmed female fan beaten like a ginger stepchild

Our friends across the Atlantic and south of the equator love nothing better than combining football with pure unadulterated violence (evidence here, here, here and here), and this time the poilce have been careful to deliver an appropriate level of force to a troublesome fan.

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Posted: July 25th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

Video: South American football riot no. 3,076


The beautiful game gets ugly in Brazil

Once again, South Americans who turned up at a game expecting to see some football were bitterly disappointed, as a Brazilian contest between Botafogo and Nautico turned into an exercise in riot policing.

After putting in a perfectly legitimate challenge on a player who proceeded to perform a spasmodic dive, Botafogo defender Andre Luis was sent off. Obviously a little miffed, he showed his dissatisfaction to the home fans, and soon after the cops layed the smackdown on players and fans:

A player was arrested after being sent off in a Brazilian championship match and riot police used pepper spray and truncheons

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Posted: June 3rd, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

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Posted: May 15th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey