a sad day for argie football

[gluckspirat.livejournal.com]

River Plate faces the worst crisis in the club's 110 years of history. After losing 2-0 against Belgrano de Córdoba, the team is on the edge of being relegated to second division. They must win by at least 2-0 at home on Sunday to be saved.

Tension showed last night when a bunch of fans broke into the field in the middle of the game to threaten some of the players, mainly Arano and Roman - the latter being risponsible for the penalty which gave Belgrano the lead. Almeyda, probably the only man in the team respected and supported by fans, approached to back up his teammates and received encouraging words by the "fans". The veteran player, who came back from his retirement because he missed his club, was later seen on the verge of tears, same as coach JJ López.

River has only obtained 12 out of the 30 points played at the Monumental during this tournament, and hasn't won any of the last 8 games.

A meeting will be held today to see if the next game at River's stadium will be played without fans. River tickets had sold out 2 hours after the sale started.

Comments

[ayres-4.livejournal.com]

I know right? For example, the last "incident" the SL fans had was against Velez at our stadium. Which wouldn't have happened if the police hadn't allowed them to stay for 30 minutes after that match was over. It was obvious that if they didn't make them leave someone else would try to, but they just stood there. And of course, when all hell broke loose, they were all ready to throw tear gases and shit to the stands with families and little kids. ¬¬