The futbol game
The game was good. Super exciting. I went to another one today too, but this one was much bigger. The section with the hardcore fans was bustling big time. I found out today that it's one side of the stadium that is dedicated to the hardcore home fans. It's usually the cheap area too. At the game on Friday, we happened to be sitting in that section. I just didn't realize it.
The singing sounded like a 50,000 person effort even though there were only 10,000 people max at the game and probably 5,000 in the hardcore fan area.
To show hardcore Argentinian football fans are, here's the security that was in place at the small game on Friday:
1. There's a 30ft fence with barbed wire on it between the fans and the soccer field.
2. I was frisked by police officers 4 times on the way into the stadium. At one point I was frisked twice in 20 seconds.
3. There were ~100 policemen just around the area where the hardcore fans were. They wore bright orange vests to stand out.
4. The home and visiting fans are completely separated from eachother on opposite sides of the stadium
5. The visiting fans exit the stadium and go home right when the game ends. The home fans have to sit and wait for 20 min until the doors are opened.
6. There is double layer steel fencing on the ground area between the hardcore area and the regular stands. It basically looks like what you'd expect for security in front of a safe at the bank.
7. The visiting players walk inside an inflated tunnel to get off the field and go underground using steps to get to their locker room area. This is to prevent fans from throwing and hitting the players using random objects.
8. There are 2 policemen with riot shields on field that run out to escort the red carded visiting team's player off the field so he doesn't get stuff thrown at him.
9. There's no alcohol served at any public sporting event in Argentina. This is probably a very good thing. If they did, we'd probably see a riot every game.
Today's big game was a team called River from Buenos Aires.
The singing sounded like a 50,000 person effort even though there were only 10,000 people max at the game and probably 5,000 in the hardcore fan area.
To show hardcore Argentinian football fans are, here's the security that was in place at the small game on Friday:
1. There's a 30ft fence with barbed wire on it between the fans and the soccer field.
2. I was frisked by police officers 4 times on the way into the stadium. At one point I was frisked twice in 20 seconds.
3. There were ~100 policemen just around the area where the hardcore fans were. They wore bright orange vests to stand out.
4. The home and visiting fans are completely separated from eachother on opposite sides of the stadium
5. The visiting fans exit the stadium and go home right when the game ends. The home fans have to sit and wait for 20 min until the doors are opened.
6. There is double layer steel fencing on the ground area between the hardcore area and the regular stands. It basically looks like what you'd expect for security in front of a safe at the bank.
7. The visiting players walk inside an inflated tunnel to get off the field and go underground using steps to get to their locker room area. This is to prevent fans from throwing and hitting the players using random objects.
8. There are 2 policemen with riot shields on field that run out to escort the red carded visiting team's player off the field so he doesn't get stuff thrown at him.
9. There's no alcohol served at any public sporting event in Argentina. This is probably a very good thing. If they did, we'd probably see a riot every game.
Today's big game was a team called River from Buenos Aires.
posted by Jimmy at
5:52 PM
1 Comments:
what an experience - great descriptions!
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