2023-10-23 03:44:03
22/10/2023 22:44hs.
Everything about festive football can be expressed in the next final of the Copa Libertadores that will be played Boca with Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro. Especially in times when fans assume a place of massive prominence which sometimes almost competes with that of athletes.
Perspective allows us to see a unprecedented colonization of the Marvelous City, with more than 100,000 fans who are willing to even walk and are selling out tickets, tickets and hotels. Of course, the vast majority of them will be left without entering the Maracanáand before that there will be several days of walks through the streets and beaches of the Rio paradise, flag-waving included.
Faced with such an expectation of mobilization, we cannot help but remember the sad and even outrageous history of fans and even official Argentine delegations suffering mistreatment and violence when they go to play on Brazilian soil.
This includes how the police act, often leaving unprotected fans of the Brazilian bars, who at this point have nothing to envy of our unfortunately famous bravas bars. Yesterday, from On the way to the Maracaná, there were shots and one death between Flamengo and Vasco Da Gama fans.
The record is scary: San Pablo-Tigre in 2012, Mineiro-Arsenal in 2013, Mineiro-Boca and Bahía-Independiente in 2021, Fluminense-Argentinos three months ago, and the signings continue. Almost all the fans who went to Brazil to see their teams have dire memories. True: control security with Argentine fans is not an easy taskThey are far from being breastfed babies. But police animosity is unacceptable.
So, Boca leadership and Argentine consulateTake note: what is coming in the Rio final will be an exceptional episode, and will warrant exceptional measures to control and care for traveling fans.
Micro with the Boca players taken to the police station in Belo Horizonte, in 2021 (EFE / Yuri Edmundo). Police officers in the Tigre locker room in San Pablo, in 2012, where players were threatened with weapons (AP Photo / Andre Penner).
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