Friday, July 20, 2007

 

Soccer Riot - FIFA U20!?

Usually when you hear about soccer riots, a few things are true:
- the riots take place in Europe somewhere
- there's a big national rivalry(home vs away, where away is a neighbouring country/region)
- the riots are between drunken attendees

Well, here in Canada we do our soccer a little different. The fans here are much too passive to get so far as to riot( perhaps a little booing if we're really upset). So the Chilean U20 soccer team took matters into their own hands

Sounds like after a wild game - something like 50 fouls were called, with 2 red cards and 9 yellow cards being handed out - that the Chileans just couldn't behave themselves. They first had to be prevented from "physically assaulting" the referee, who was escorted - running no less - off the field by police.

Later they got into what sounds like a pretty serious brawl with police:
"the bus just unloads and there's eight, 10 players come off the bus and there's just fists flying everywhere, between the cops, the security guards, a couple of ladies were involved that were security." " People throwing fists and cops with their billyclubs out and then all of a sudden it got out of control and a police officer grabbed his taser gun and tasered someone - I don't know if he was a player or if he was part of the team" "Police eventually handcuffed several players, some of them bloodied and screaming, and escorted them back into the dressing room. "

Ah that Chilean U20 team - now THAT's *class*!

Comments:
Ursula was reading some Chilean newspapers online to see what they said, apparantly they are saying that Canadian policemen are brutal child-beaters and stuff like that. Crazy!
 
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