Soccer Fans Brawl In The Streets In Lodi Outside Grape Bowl

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/ ^ | 6/11/18 | Marc Thompson

[BBell]

LODI (CBS13) – Several people were injured outside the Grape Bowl in Lodi on Saturday after a brawl broke out between fans of rival soccer teams.

Lodi police say more than 100 people spilled out into the streets surrounding the stadium, around 2:45 p.m., with several dozen directly involved in the fighting.

Ernie Silva lives just behind the stadium and saw it all unfold from his block, starting with a shirtless man with a severe head injury.

“Blood pouring out everywhere,” he said, describing the man’s head and face. “Not even a second later I hear sirens.”

The event was high profile soccer match between rivals Chivas and America.

“We weren’t expecting any type of violence or a brawl to break out. This was just going to be a sporting event,” said officer Jerry Bahr with Lodi Police.

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“Probably like 60 people fighting right in the middle of the street, swinging big pipes. Big ole 12 foot pipes, 5-foot pipes flying across the crowd,” he said. “People started to scatter, running through the parking lot, bloody, shirts off.”

[Bonemaker]

Lodi Wisconsin?

[linear]

Soccer fans fight each other in order to avoid thinking about the sheer mind-numbing dullness that is soccer.

[txnativegop]

that’s funny!

[certrtwngnut]

If they were Scottish footballers they would have harmless bagpipes instead of big pipes.

[RightGeek]

Doesn't anyone in Lodi know how to break this up fast?

[mikeus_maximus]

“Lodi Wisconsin?”

No, Lodi, Ohio- my neck of the woods.

[SaveFerris]

I was wondering when John Fogerty and the boys would make it to the thread!

[SaveFerris]

Of course, I’m not sure which Lodi he was singing about.

I had always thought he meant California.

[Robert DeLong]

Lodi, California.

[Robert DeLong]

Chivas, is a Mexican professional football club based in Guadalajara, Jalisco.

[Robert DeLong]

Youtube: Chivas vs America fan fights at Lodi ca

[BBell]

Russians go to soccer games to practice their boxing skills

and martial arts moves

[SaveFerris]

Those are the guys that hacked Hillary!!!

[SES1066]

At the bottom right of the last picture you can see the domestic USofA soccer fans, all of them! (Just kidding, I do like soccer but there is this history of fights and wars ...)

[4yearlurker]

Lodi New Jersey.

[BBell]

Chivas USA?

[EdnaMode]

It’s just a game!

[Verginius Rufus]

Since this comes from CBS in Sacramento, I guess it’s the Lodi in California, not the one in Italy.

[JBW1949]

You seldom hear of brawls or fights at football, baseball, or basketball games....Commonplace at soccer games though...

[Falconspeed]

“Big ole 12 foot pipes.” Lodi is a wonderful town where A&W Root Beer started in 1919. And the flamingos in the thousands arrive annually.

Sadly, Jerry Brown invited losers from other countries into Lodi and they just do what losers do: drink, fight and conclude that soccer is a difficult sport.