Posted on 06/11/2018 2:32:42 PM PDT by 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.”
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Deportivo is just Spanish for “sports”.
Soccer fans fight each other in order to avoid thinking about the sheer mind-numbing dullness that is soccer.
Changing the subject to A&W, I never saw as many as I did while in Japan. It may be dying here but they were everywhere there.
Yeah, just like the hooligans in England!
Who knows? 8>) I don’t watch the sport anyway. Thus I don’t care either. 8>) But they can take the sport back down below the Rio Grande.
Aren’t they doing a “Sieg Heil” with a couple of fingers bent in the bottom photo?
Time to BAN SOCCER!!
I propose to ban Mexicans.
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