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Argentina’s obsession turns ugly as worst fears realised in Buenos Aires
« on: November 25, 2018, 06:27:01 pm »
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Argentina’s obsession turns ugly as worst fears realised in Buenos Aires
Copa Libertadores final second leg delayed after attack on Boca Juniors team bus

Rory Smith in Buenos Aires
 
They are seductive, those images, those snapshots of a place where the colours shine brighter, the noise rings louder.

It is all so vibrant, so alive, so enticing that it is irresistible – the sight of tens of thousands of fans mounting a pilgrimage just to see their team train; the sound of 70,000 in full voice, basking in glorious sunshine, hours before a game; the smell of the cordite, the smoke of the flares.

But what makes the scene so mesmerising – at least to the weary eyes of a European, or a North American, resigned to the corporatisation of sport – is the sense that this is something that we have lost, or that this is how it should be.

Read more at:  https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/argentina-s-obsession-turns-ugly-as-worst-fears-realised-in-buenos-aires-1.3709738





Many pictures at the Clarin, newspaper from Argentina: https://www.clarin.com/deportes/fotogalerias-superfinal-suspendida-hechos-violencia-previa-partido-boca-river-conmebol-copa-libertadores_5_ij25fCVXU.html

As if France gets the unique attention for problems, this is causing quite a ripple in Argentina. They called off the game. The bus for one of the teams was attacked as well.  I don't think anyone was killed. When something like this has happened previously, they have canceled everything.  Some pictures transfer over, others don't.



The good citizens there are expressing their outrage over all of this.
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Re: Argentina’s obsession turns ugly as worst fears realised in Buenos Aires
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2018, 06:35:59 pm »
Ahhh. Soccer.


Proof that the rest of the world REALLY IS that f**ked up
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Re: Argentina’s obsession turns ugly as worst fears realised in Buenos Aires
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2018, 07:00:00 pm »
World news implications...
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COP THAT Copa Libertadores violence sparks fears over protection of Theresa May and Donald Trump at Argentina G20 summit
Boca Juniors stars were hospitalised and the Superclasico was abandoned after River Plate fans ambushed their team bus
By Gerard Couzens
25th November 2018, 3:43 pm
Updated: 25th November 2018, 3:43 pm


The police in Argentina managed to arrest a number of football fans

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/7823585/copa-libertadores-violence-theresa-may-donald-trump-argentina-g20/

Bloomberg runs a similar article as well.  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-25/soccer-fueled-violence-in-argentina-sharpens-focus-on-g-20

G-20 meet this week or soon.
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