Police with shields marching behind water cannons scattered hundreds of demonstrators outside River Plate’s stadium Thursday as they called for the resignation of the football club’s president Daniel Passarella and coach Juan Jose Lopez.
The situation surrounding one of Buenos Aires’ most famous teams threatens to become more violent as the club faces relegation to the Argentine second division.
River Plate lost 2-0 to second-division club Belgrano on Wednesday, and a failure in the second-leg playoff match Sunday would send the club to the second tier.
The match at Belgrano’s stadium was stopped for 20 minutes early in the second half when hooligans ripped through a chain-link fence and shoved and taunted River players on the field. Dozens of invaders when crawled back through the fence, or climbed it—trying to avoid barbed wire at the top.
Violence is endemic in Argentine football.
From: http://ping.fm/att4v
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