Soccer brawl in Cali

I'm not sure if this was posted...if it was I apologize.
I find this very sad...

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Soccer brawl in Colombia leaves 78 injured, 18 with stab wounds

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP)—A stadium brawl at a soccer rivalry game left about 80 people wounded in the Colombian city of Cali late Saturday, 18 of them with stab wounds, emergency officials said.

Clashes broke out among America de Cali’s “Red Baron‿ fan club in the 82nd minute of the match with Deportivo de Cali and spread onto the field and around the Pascual Guerrero stadium.

Police fired tear gas as the brawlers lit firecrackers and tried to tear down fencing separating the stands from the field.

Eighteen people were stabbed during the melee, said Manuel Infante, spokesman for Cali’s Emergency Prevention Committee. They were treated at the stadium and taken to a local hospital. Another 60 suffered bruises and other minor injuries.

A young pregnant woman and three police officers were among the wounded, the Red Cross said.

Tensions flared over referee Wilman Roldan’s decision not to call a penalty kick against Cali. America protested the no-call, players traded blows on the field and America coach Diego Edison Umana got into the fray, elbowing his Cali counterpart Daniel Carreno.

Cali Mayor Jorge Ivan Ospina called Umana “directly responsible‿ for the violence and said the stadium’s stands would be closed temporarily.

Umana had harsh words for the refereeing later in comments published on the Web site of El Tiempo newspaper, but said there was “no excuse‿ for his behavior.

“It’s my fault, and if I have to leave soccer I’ll go,‿ Umana said.

Fans of the two Cali squads have had frequent clashes in the past, though less serious.

“This cannot happen again,‿ vowed Juan Carlos Abadia, governor of Del Valle department.

The chaos led Roldan to whistle an early end to the match, which Deportivo won 1-0 on a goal from defender Freddy Hurtado.
http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-colombia-soccerviolence&prov=...

http://www.eltiempo.com/deportes/futbol/fubolcolombiano/equipos/AMERIC...

By MaFe on Mar 9, 2008, 15:57 in Friendly Talkzone.

Simon says on Mar 9, 2008, 16:38:

Podrias traer más enlaces de esta gran noticia? No trajiste suficiente.

HERE'S SIMON!!!!

MaFe says on Mar 9, 2008, 17:50:

Bueno Simón, para el que no lee ingles bien, hay esta en Español..
acuerdese que soy de Cali, así que estas noticias no me gustan!

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "-Aristotle

Simon says on Mar 9, 2008, 19:03:

Estas dizque 'barras bravas' son más bien barras de criminales. Esos descamisados que se pasan el partido gritando sandeces se ve que son pura chusma. Yo me pregunto, qué clase de papás tienen estos salvajes?

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msaucey says on Mar 9, 2008, 21:46:

One thing I learned early on is that Soccer is a SERIOUS life or death sport... This is another example...

MaFe, I sympathize and totaly understand how this is disturbing.... 18 is a huge number of injured for a sport.... We've had a few issues in Pereira, but it's been a while....

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. - CS Lewis

Juanes says on Mar 10, 2008, 12:34:

yo fui un partido en cali en avril 2007...deportivo cali v independiente cali.....and also i went to the medellin derby a few weeks earlier when i bought ticket outside stadium beforehand. i took fotos and had no problem and i wish we had female soccer fans like that in the UK. its not normally dangerous but i heard the coach of deportivo ran on the pithc and lamped someone which kicked it all off...

hay mas violencio en el futbol en brasil y argentina en comparaccion a colombia.

vive los verdes y blancos...atletico nacional

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MaFe says on Mar 10, 2008, 14:36:

I have seen some partidos in Cali, no problemas.
I even saw Cali in Pereira contra el Deportivo Pereira, and it was so peaceful.
I am a HUGE soccer fan...

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "-Aristotle

msaucey says on Mar 10, 2008, 14:44:

MaFe... just for you...

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. - CS Lewis

Juanes says on Mar 11, 2008, 10:00:

oye mafe, soy un fanatico de atletico nacional medellin....los blancos y verdes.....

estuve en cali y medellin por los clasicos en marzo/avril 2007 pero me he pasado mas tiempo para ver las calenas y paisa mamacitas en el campo, nosotros no tenemos este tipo de fanatica en los estadios o en el futbol inglaterra...que pena...

i cant believe how many girls go and then they go and tie their soccer shrts up in a little bundle just beneath las lolas........grrrrr. you can see from my fotos at the clasicos in my travelbog i was always trying to capture the fans....jaja

http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Juanes/