Violence in football was in the news again for what happened among the madmen of Querétaro-Atlas, in Mexico, which ended with dozens of wounded after a pitched battle led by violent people who have nothing to do with the most beautiful sport on the planet.
Pending the resolution by the Liga MX authorities, it is worth remembering what is happening in Argentina: fans cannot attend their team when they play their away games, due to a decision by the historic president of the league. AFA, the late Julio Grondona.
15 years ago, Grondona announced it as “provisional measure“: the matches that were missing from the 2006 Apertura tournament would be played only with members and subscribers of the local clubs, to “end violence in football”after the embarrassment that the Gimnasia bars had starred in, pushed by their president Muñoz, squeezed the “Lobo” squad so that they would lose to Boca, with the aim of harming the classic rival Estudiantes.
However, given the demonstration of fans at the door of the AFA, the claim of the UTEDYC guild, and the disagreement of the entire soccer field, a week later, on Tuesday, November 21 of that year, there was a reverse gear and the prohibition. But the problems remained…
El Ascenso was left without a visiting public after the murder of Daniel Cejas, from Tigre, in the Promotion with Chicago, in 2007. The First, finally, in 2013, after the death of Javier Gerez, from Lanús, in the Único de La Plata stadium, after a shotgun blast from a police officer.
Almost 16 years have passed since the first time the AFA banned visiting fans from the fields and everything remains the same. In some games they enable the “neutrals”, they make capricious decisions without any sense, but the fans are still present, doing their business and profiting from football. It’s a never ending story…
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