Rioting in Buenos Aires as emblematic football team in relegated to second division

Monday, June 27th 2011 - 05:59 UTC

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One of the great clubs of South American football, River Plate was relegated on Sunday from the Argentine first division for the first time in their 110-year history triggering clashes between enraged fans and the police that left dozens hospitalized and arrested. Read full article

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razor654321
Clearly these people have absolutely nothing going on in their lives if they're this worked up about a football team. Losers.
Jun 27th, 2011 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Britishbulldog
Friggin hell its only football.
Jun 27th, 2011 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ElaineB
It must be the Italian blood. : ) An Italian chap once said to me that NOTHING is more important than football. You can change your wife, you can change your religion but you can never change your football team! lol.

I have been to footie matches in Buenos Aires and the passion from the fans is intense. The actual football was not great, but the fans were incredible. I never experienced a riot but have seen the water cannons rolled out before the match starts; just in case.
Jun 27th, 2011 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Frase
Nothing like that in Córdoba; it's a very happy place today with the smell of fernet still drifting on the wind........
Jun 27th, 2011 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marcos Alejandro
Vamos Belgrano!!

Italian blood Elaine? What about the English hooligans famous around the world?
Let me give you a hint: Heysel tragedy.

http://bianconeri.tripod.com/heysel.html
Jun 27th, 2011 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Sir Rodderick Bodkin
This is the lowlife scum we need to put behind bars and throw the keys in the sea.
uncivilized pricks!
Jun 27th, 2011 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GA3
@6

And this one?

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/hockey/blackhawks/6004434-417/vancouver-rioting-means-its-hockey-fright-in-canada.html
Jun 27th, 2011 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Britishbulldog
5 Marcos Alejandro------ Let me give you an hint, it takes two to tango, and wasn't it Italians who got of lightly when they to get at the Liverpool supporters at that match. At least our supporters don't take motor bikes to the terraces like the Italians do and then throw them over onto supporters. or this little episode. forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-276293.html

And don't lets pretend that Argentina and its neighbours just go to football matches to watch football shall we www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWjItCP7fs

Or what about this little shameful episode when Argentina supporters burst into the dressing room and threatened their own team players with guns if they beat the opposition. www.guardian.co.uk/football/2006/nov/14/europeanfootball.sport1

Then only last year this happened at the world cup.www.bbc.co.uk/news/10257163

So Marcos before slinging a few bricks at your hated enemy the English or Britain I would make sure your not standing in that glass house, because at least the English clubs have now got on top of the matter of Hooliganism, the same can not be said for a few other countries that I could mention.

And yes before you come back with smart arse comments we still do have an element of hooliganism, but believe me when I say its not as bad as it as been in the past and its certainly not as bad what we are seeing in Argentina and its Latin mates.

Its a shame all of them don't just go to see the football good or bad, because that's what true football supporters do.
Jun 27th, 2011 - 08:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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stick up your junta
http://www.rediff.com/sports/report/argentine-football-coach-to-leave-kashmir-after-death-threats/20110328.htm

Argentine football coach Juan Marcos, who started and International Football Academy Trust to train the Valley's youth four years ago, has decided to leave following death threats and attacks on him over the past three months
Jun 27th, 2011 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marcos Alejandro
@7 Debe ser Artillero debe ser...que andara por ahi...
Deben ser las gallinas deben ser que andaran por alli...
:-))))))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6V1DSAbv2s
Jun 27th, 2011 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero601
@10

Ya le dije Marquitos, no gaste !!! :-)))
Jun 27th, 2011 - 08:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marcos Alejandro
Artillero, Don't worry, my team is doing so bad lately, possibly will folow River next season.
Is Houston Dynamo hiring a coach? Pasarella is looking for a place to run away.
Jun 27th, 2011 - 09:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero601
Houston Dynamo? “Timbuktu United” more likely!!!!!!!!
Jun 27th, 2011 - 09:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marcos Alejandro
Is that team a River's branch in Tejas? :-))
Jun 27th, 2011 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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jerry
This article did not give any history as to what led up to the chaos. Originally the match was scheduled for Saturday and to be in a closed stadium, with no audience, as it was afraid that real trouble might arise. Then the president, CFK, decided to put it on her national TV channel and change it to Sunday and wide-open to the public. Of course peace was assured with 2,200 police, all the mounted police, two police water trucks and 30 police dogs. And the match was to be in honor of her departed Nestor. Now the government refuses to have any connection with the mess. I do not think that getting involved in a football match is one of a president´s duties.
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Artillero601
@15Now the government refuses to have any connection with the mess....

and you are surprised about that???
Jun 27th, 2011 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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zethe
8 Britishbulldo:

Win.
Jun 28th, 2011 - 08:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Sir Rodderick Bodkin
@7
Of course, that's bad as well.
Nothing justifies breaking or smashing private property, not even a sport.

However, i do believe this is being done to distract the public from more important issues such as inflation and the Shocklender case. It's all convenience :|
Jun 28th, 2011 - 01:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero601
@18 distract the public from more important issues such as inflation and the Shocklender case. It's all convenience ” ...

Naah!! you have the rest of the year to do that!! .River's defeat was a real shock to all of us (sympathizers)
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