We're all witnesses of recent episodes of serious violence in football stadiums, which has lead to different opinions, most of them inaccurate.
Firstly, respect to lower divisions, AFA has banned visitors to support their team in other's stadiums, preventing this sport to be as exciting as it gets when both sides scream for their team. Indeed, it didn't have a good result at all respect to aggressions, not even in Division A. Outrageous events -ironically - between River Plate fans among themselves had me thinking about the real causes of this facts.
It is commonly stated that football itself is violent, yet I disagree with those. From my point of view, the activity itself and its surroundings are not violent, but create an auspicious ambience to reflect society matters. In other words, violent is our daily routine in Argentina. Violence is to be insulted, assaulted, sequestered, murdered. It's our culture what is reflected on match-day. Two opposing gangs letting all their accumulated desire of hate and revenge out is the consequence of our behavior as a society.
(Ezequiel)
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I definitely agree with this post: a match is only as violent as its individual spectators are. If countless measures have been taken to avert violence in football matches and all have failed, I think that the problem lies outside the stadiums, where violence is only particularly noticeable because of the mass gathering of people.
But countless measures haven't been taken - as long as people like the River president continue to fund the barrabrava and tacitly support their violence the present situation will continue or even decline further.
And while we have a president of the nation that sends violent thugs to bully demonstraters, we will have a violent nation.
In England the police don't carry guns they carry video cameras. Once caught on camera, a hooligan is automatically banned for life, without appeal. This has been an incredibly successful strategy in England but can only work if the technology is in place and there isn't any corruption in the clubs and police. Therefore I think it will be a while before it happens here.
Paul
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