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.
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.
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.
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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