07:44 PM
Tuesday 15 December 2020
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Books – Muhammad Zakaria:
Two years ago, the press called it the fiercest football match, which was scheduled to take place at the “Monumental” stadium, that of River Plate, but this Argentine derby was unusual at all. Boca Juniors fans attacked the opponent’s bus before it reached the stadium, the match was postponed. For a later date the same evening, before postponing until further notice, and moving outside Argentina
If you want to know the meaning of the derby, then in Argentina, hardly a single match passes between River Plate, which is called the Club of the Rich, and Boca Juniors, which is known as the Club of the Poor, except that altercations occur between the players and the fans, which often amount to beatings and the latest violence It is like a street quarrels and not football, it may reach death, but this violent competition has roots and a story.
The start was in the Lapuka neighborhood in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. In 1901 he founded River Plate, as a result of the merger of Santa Rosa and the amateur team Rosales, while Boca Juniors appeared only four years later, with each team taking a different path.
In the year 1931 River Plate began his professional career, supported by the rich people of Argentina, to move out of the city of “La Boca” to the upscale “Niones” neighborhood, as if it were a promotion, to be called from then on the club of the rich, and to have a stadium alone, it was called “the Monumental” in 1938 .
While at the hands of 6 young Italian immigrants who worked near the “La Boca” neighborhood, the Boca Juniors Club was founded in the year 1905, while they clung to “La Boca”, accusing River Plate of narcissism because of their transformation into an upscale neighborhood, to take the name “Club of the Poor” from its sympathizers And their fans.
The conflict intensified after the River Plate team concluded the big deals, while its traditional rivals continued to depend on the juniors and players with poor salaries, to ignite the competition gradually, and the hostility grew, after the River Plate fans called the “pigs” on the Boca Juniors for the poverty of their region, and the Boca fans responded to them. With “chicken” for their cheese and weakness.
That hostility did not stop at the borders of the cheers, but reached death. In 1968, at the Monumental Stadium, 71 people were killed, after a stampede at Gate 12 while trying to leave the stadium, and that was the most tragic and traumatic football accident in Argentina, with an average age of 19 victims estimated at 19 years
With the passage of days, the conflict intensified heated up, until it reached mutual death threats between the fans, the exchange of fireworks when the confrontation, as well as the riots and the exchange of racist accusations, which postponed and canceled many matches, which did not stop for a moment the persistence of Argentina in the enactment of penalties for Violators.
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