Barrabrava officers, attempt to steal flags and lack of police: the first friendly of 2023 left incidents in Boca-Independiente

A seven-minute interruption in a match that served only as preparation and was the first between two Professional League teams with an audience in the stands. The accidents which occurred on Saturday in the duel between Mouth And Independentin Saint John and the International Summer Triangular, have once again questioned the possibility of the return of fans visiting stadiums and returned Argentine football to realism, after the boil for the title at the World Cup in Qatar 2022.

The episode that took place at the Bicentenario stadium hid a dispute between official bullshit, an attempted theft of flags and a lack of policemen, evident from the outset, but increased by the violent events that took place at the end of the second half. .

What happened? Beyond the chants that two fans of teams called ‘big’ always dedicate and which are taken for classics, everything exploded when – perhaps boring because the development of the game has brought nothing – a faction of ‘red’ fans started to the insult of the ‘xeneize’ Plaiteists, separated only by a dividing fence, without the usual lung or policemen.

This was followed by a physical assault, with plastic bottles, flagpoles and even a garbage can flying from side to side. Faced with this situation, a part of Boca barrabrava ‘La 12’ began to cross from the popular to the stalls to reach the place where the incidents were taking place.

There, those from La Ribera tried to appropriate three flags that hung in that sector, which led to a wider intervention by their “colleagues” from Independiente.

With the chaos of the situation and the demands of the players from inside the field of play -Dario Benedetto and Pol Fernández on one side, plus Iván Marcone, Rodrigo Rey and Joaquín Laso on the other-, just five minutes after brawls, the Police it arrived to slip between the two sectors and form the ‘lung’.

Although the balance was, fortunately, a minor injury, this situation represents an alarm signal considering that, with the willing companions in tow, the two teams will return to play between Wednesday and Friday in the same stadium against Chilean Evertonthe third member of this summer tournament.