On this Thursday night, The Esporte Clube Bahía, from Brazil, in which Hugo Rodallega plays, suffered an attack with explosives while arriving near the Arena Fonte Nova stadium, to play against Sampaio Correa, for the first round of the Northeast Cup of Brazil.
So far, as reported by the authorities, andThe goalkeeper Danilo Fernandes is the most affected. However, he remains in stable condition at a local hospital..
What happened highlighted the string of attacks on soccer team buses that has been seen in recent years. An extensive and pitiful list.
The unfortunate attacksBorussia Dortmund
It happened on April 11, 2017, in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, the German team headed to the Westfalenstadion to receive Monaco. But during his journey he was surprised by an explosion that left Spanish defender Marc Bartra injured. The attack, which occurred just 10 kilometers from the field, was classified by the Teutonic authorities as a terrorist attack and murderforcing Uefa to postpone the match for another 24 hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl5DIFwLURc
Man Utd
The Premier League, from England, has not been immune to this type of violent events. It happened on May 10, 2016, when the bus where the Manchester United players were traveling was attacked by a group of West Ham United fans in the surroundings of the Boleyn Ground stadium (Upton Park). Although there were no serious injuries, the bus was quite affected and the authorities were forced to postpone the game for 45 minutes.
San Lorenzo
It happened on August 13, 2018. San Lorenzo traveled to Temuco to face the second leg of the second round of the Copa Suramericana. Although the Chileans had won 2-1 in the first leg, the Argentines sued for the match due to the irregular registration of a player, which led to the match being played 3-0 in favor of San Lorenzo. The decision aroused the anger of Temuco’s supporters, who had no qualms about receiving the visitors’ bus with stones and objects that put the integrity of the Almagro campus at risk..
Fenerbahce
Turkish football has been characterized by having radical groups that have committed some attacks against teams from that country. One of the most remembered events occurred on April 6, 2015, when some Trabzonspor fans shot at the bus of the Fenerbahce team, in those incidents the driver was injured, who was taken to the hospital after receiving a bullet in his face. The objective of the criminals was for the bus to lose control and thus leave the road towards a river with the entire workforce on board.
sporty grass
It happened on November 18, 2017, when the players of the Nariñense team were on their way to the Metropolitan Stadium in Barranquilla, with 14 kilometers to go to reach the field, the bus in which they were traveling was attacked and stoned by a group of strangers. After the violent events, the midfielder Carlos Giraldo and the kinesiologist Cristian Tovar were injured and were taken to a health center. The meeting was postponed for the next day in the morning hours.
Deportivo Cali
The embarrassing spectacle was presented on April 5, 2009. That day, in the vicinity of the El Campín stadium, the sugar team bus was attacked with stones. The embarrassing incident left Juan Guillermo Domínguez hospitalized at the Palermo Clinic, after presenting a mild head injury.
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*With information from Futbolred
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