supporters of New Chicago staged a fierce showdown with agents of the city police of Buenos Aires after Torito’s defeat against Almagroin the meeting corresponding to the date 33 from First National. Annoyed by the 3-2 loss on the hour, after starting winning by two goals, the violent group tried to enter the zone of locker rooms to attack soccer players and leaders.
According to what was narrated to Telam by those close to the Mataderos institution, the pitched battle occurred “when the police officers tried to prevent the angry fans from reaching the locker room occupied by the local players”, after the team led by Fernando Ruiz lost an incredible match, being 2 -0 above, at the end of the first half.
“There were shots of rubber bullets, but the gang did not stay still, they threw down fences and tried to burn a patrol car,” the informant abounded. “The chaos was even so great that several of the plateistas had to take shelter in the internal gym and some even reached the vicinity of the visiting locker room,” the consulted spokesman confided.
As pointed out by the spokesman“there are several police officers injured by the clashes with the fans”. The team’s coaching staff green and blacklike the players, “suspended the usual press conference due to the recorded incidents,” reported a close friend. 19 would be the policemen attacked who had to be assisted by the doctors from Almagro and other more seriously ill patients transferred to the Santojanni, Álvarez and Grierson Hospital, while there would be at least 15 detainees.
Nueva Chicago, which has gone 16 games without a win (7 draws, 9 losses), won 2-0, with the goals scored by Sebastián Valdez against his fence (Pt. 14m.) and Enzo Lettieri (Pt. 26m.). However, Almagro reacted and turned it around with the annotations of Tomás Conechny (St. 7m. and 38m.) and Nicolás Servetto (St. 46m.).
In this way, the team from Mataderos was very compromised in the lower part of the table and occupies the 34th. placement, with 29 points, only above Tristán Suárez (27), Sacachispas (27) and Santamarina de Tandil (25), with two relegations at stake.
This violent episode occurred a few hours after in the vicinity of La Ciudadela, the stadium of San Martin de Tucumanwhere he was preparing to play against the leader Belgranothere was a confrontation between two internal groups of the Ciruja bar. The balance of the crash: one dead.
The fact, according to The Gazette of Tucumanoccurred hours before the match, scheduled for 9:00 p.m. “two factions of the bar” faced the shots, as indicated by police sources investigating the incidents. And one of them lost his life.
In the images of the videos that went viral, you can see the climate and the intense movement of a game day in a stadium that is usually full like the one in San Martín. Suddenly detonations are heard, some bullfights are seen, and there the sympathizers begin to worry about the incidents. In another of the footage, the victim directly appears lying on the asphalt, bloodied, surrounded by fans and waiting for medical attention..
“What we have is that someone was shot in the back. The game is played, not because it is more important than a life. They guaranteed us that the game can be played normally,” he said. Ruben Moisellopresident of San Martín, in dialogue with D Sports Radio. “We came with a different mood, this brings you down, but the game is going to be played. Belgrano is warming up, the referees are there, everything is there”, added the director. Indeed, minutes after 9 p.m., the commitment began normally at a full stadium.
The local Police handles the hypothesis of a short circuit within “The truck gang”, which handles “Fly” Roldán with an iron fist. The Gazette points out that the murdered fan was nicknamed “Eberenjena”, and was a neighbor of the leader of the bar. Before the start of the most important match on date 33 of the second division tournament, Belgrano led the standings with 67 units, 11 more than San Martín, located on the fourth step, with Gimnasia de Mendoza and Instituto above.
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