Season 07/08 - November

Colombia -Argentina - 20/11/2007

Source : Corbis

Died in Brasil - 16/11/2007

Source: youtube.com

A violent fight took place between arch-rivals from Flamengo and Vasco do Gama.
A leader died during the fight.

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Wrexham FC - Chester City - 25/11/2007

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Ukrainia: Tavriya Simferopol - Vorskla Poltava - 30/11/2007

Source : Forum

Fight erupted between 90 Simferopol + Sevatopol v 110 Vorskla Poltava

FC Kaiserslautern - FSV Mainz - 26/11/2007

Source : Der-Betze-Brennt.de

Germany (Hockey) : Eispiraten Crimmitschau - Lausitzer Füchse - 30/11/2008

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Millonarios Bogota - Club América - Copa Nissan Sudamericana - 08/11/2007

Source : Reuters

Panama - Costa Rica - 21/11/2007

Source : Reuters

America (Mexico) - Arsenal (Argentina) - Copa Sudamericana final played in Mexico City - 30/11/2007

Source : Reuters


Police protect a fans Argentina's Arsenal.

Croatian hooligans flirt with Nazi ideology - 18/11/2007

Source: Expatica

Only an appeal by a group of celebrities persuaded Hajduk Split hooligan fans to abandon jerseys, which featured a belligerent eagle and a declaration of membership of the Hajduk Jugend (Hajduk Youth).


Zagreb (dpa) - Only an appeal by a group of celebrities persuaded Hajduk Split hooligan fans to abandon jerseys, which featured a belligerent eagle and a declaration of membership of the Hajduk Jugend (Hajduk Youth).

But before dropping the insignia, the fans threatened to "chop off the legs" of Tvrtko Jakovina, a Croatian philosophy professor who had been criticizing the hooligans' flirt with Nazi ideas.

The bird and the inscription on the jerseys had drawn strong associations with the 1933-1945 Nazi dictatorship in Germany and the Hitler Youth organization that trained and indoctrinated German youth.

The jerseys are only one of many similar cases at football stadiums, basketball arenas and other sports.

"During the 1990s we allowed a wave of such incidents, which the state leadership tolerated, even incited... that has consequences," Jakovina recently told the Slobodna Dalmacija daily.

"The public was infected by the view that those are 'our boys' and should be forgiven."

After declaring independence in 1991, Croatia fought the Yugoslav army, Serb paramilitaries and insurgents who controlled a third of its territory until 1995.

The scars of World War II, when Croatia was set up as Hitler's puppet-state and implemented Nazi racial laws, along with the conflict of the last decade has led to a surge of racial supremacists, many of them grouped around football clubs.

Dinamo Zagreb vice-president Zdravko Mamic frequently curses his opponents as "enemies of Croatia" and "children of Yugo (military) officers."

Jakovina said: "Those are all symptoms of insecurity, even fear of the Serbs. We can't get away from comparing with our neighbours and that, along with World War II history, always drags us downward."

The animosity is not directed against the Serbs. Fans in Split, Croatia's large Adriatic port, have in the past vehemently jeered black players, mimicking monkeys each time Africans or Brazilians would touch the ball.

Not only young, under-educated and probably drunk fans tend to act as racists, but some prominent figures have also been revealed as such.

"A black man can't coach Croatia's national team. I don't remember any black manager of a major team," the president of the national football organization, Vlatko Markovic, said last year.

The remark matched the blunder by Croatian Olympic official Antun Vrdoljak, who said: "All our boys want to be (as basketball stars) Toni Kukoc or Dino Radja, but I haven't heard of any wanting to be black."

Those and other pejorative statements were never punished in Croatia, but at best swept under the carpet.

Politicians are ambivalent, because they make use of football and its fans. For instance, in campaign for the November 25 parliamentary polls, the entire Dinamo Zagreb football club publicly backed Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's Croatian Democratic Union.

The club poster promoting Sanader was also signed by brothers Niko and Robert Kovac, both born in Berlin, as well as by naturalized Brazilians Carlos and Etto or players without the right to vote, such as Frank Guella of the Ivory Coast, German Georg Koch and Brasilian Jorge Sammir.

Hrvoje Prnjak, analyst and author of a book on Dinamo Zagreb's violent "Bad Blue Boys", told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa: "The resilience of various forms of chauvinism surrounding sports in Croatia is not just a deformation of the traditional sports animosity of us against them.

"It is a product of the climate of exclusiveness that was created from the independence onward.

"The children of the 90s, born at the time when patriotism was measured with intolerance against others, just reflect their family matrix in the stands."

In his words, the phenomenon is declining, but too slowly at least partly owing to the tolerant stance of the authorities.

Celtic - Shakhtar Donetsk - 28/11/2007

Source : Press

Missiles and pitch invasion against Shakhtar

Champions League/Celtic 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk: Massimo Donati's stoppage-time goal, side-footed into the Shakhtar Donestk goal from 12 yards, ensures Celtic have one foot firmly in the last 16 of the Champions League after another incredible European night at Parkhead.

This was an insipid display from Gordon Strachan's side, littered with errors, though Aiden McGeady again drove Celtic forward for much of the game and, yet again, their immense home form came to prominence.

A point against Milan in the San Siro next Tuesday will guarantee Celtic's progression.

Pre-match conjecture surrounded Celtic's aspirations of a three-goal victory that would all-but seal their passage to the knock-out phase.

However, such thoughts could not have been further from a capacity home crowd's thoughts in the opening stages - the Scottish champions failing to come to grips in any area of the pitch.

Goalkeeper Artur Boruc and Paul Hartley had shaken off fitness concerns to return to the starting line-up but defensive shortcomings were not long in being punished.

Shakhtar's impressive Brazilian forward Brandao capitalised within five minutes; coolly sliding the ball beyond Boruc after the Celtic defender John Kennedy had miscued a clearing header straight into his path.

The frustrations of Celtic's support were understandable, but the throwing of objects towards Brandao and his team-mates as they celebrated after scoring their goal was reckless given that the hosts are already on a probationary period from Uefa.

It took 22 minutes for Scott McDonald to register Celtic's first attempt at goal as the Ukrainians dominated in midfield and offered menace each time they broke forward.

Celtic, who had already lost Lee Naylor through injury, also had to withdraw Kennedy, four minutes before the interval; palpable concern for the defender centred on the fact that he had damaged his left knee, a serious ligament injury in the same area kept him out of soccer for three years until April.

Jiri Jarosik promptly lightened the mood, driving home an angled half-volley after the Shakhtar defence blundered in attempting to deal with a hopeful Gary Caldwell long ball.

Shakhtar's 2-0 win over Celtic in the opening group game had given Mircea Lucescu's side the edge in qualification had last night's match stayed level - which it seemed destined to for most of a tight second half.

Nervousness was a key factor in the second period, McGeady illustrating as much when he inexplicably passed the ball straight to Shakhtar's Jadson, 20 yards out from goal, with the latter blasting over Boruc's crossbar.

The visitors were clearly content to play out a draw, their regular attempts at time-wasting causing anger in the stands and, occasionally, in the Celtic dug-out.

Caldwell was booked as a frustrated Celtic sensed their chances were slipping away, and Donetsk came close to a late winner when Brandao blazed over from eight yards after substitute Olexandr Gladkiy's cut-back.

But salvation was at hand - Donati firing home McGeady's cut-back in the last act of the game as the crestfallen Ukrainians contemplated what might have been.

Sweden (hockey) : Rögle - Djurgården - 22/11/2008

Source : Sydsvenskan-img.se + kvp.se

Hooligans from Helsingborg IF and FC Copenhagen came to this hockey game to confront themselves.
Everything started in the city center, 3 hours prior to the game, when police was called for a fight.
When they arrived in the scene they were pelted with flares and one policeman was injured at his eye.
A total of 40 hooligans were arrested.

Translation Underground Fans (c)