Dramatic footage of the shooting outside Corona Stadium in Torreon, Mexico, during the Santos-Morelia match on August 20, 2011. “In Mexico, there are not too many comments in media and newspapers about the event, besides a few comments stating that everybody was and is OK,” reports Football Scholars Forum member Alejandro Gonzales. “On the radio, they are explaining more . . . they have catalogued this event as a metaphor of the current state of affairs in Mexico.”
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Horrible and scary. Fan violence at professional sporting events increasingly a problem in US too:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/sports/shootings-draw-attention-to-stadium-violence-leading-off.html
A sad event. Nevertheless, football is not and will never be played out in a vacuum. Like a liquid, it takes on the shape of its container – the socio-cultural reality of its context. So it would be foolhardy to expect a society in the grip of violence to practice violence free football, or, like in the case of my country, Kenya, it would be shocking to any sensible and realistic Kenyan to expect our football to be free of ethnicity and corruption, when everything else is defined by the two phenomena.