‘Fans Broke Plastic Chairs, Throwing Them and Flares at Police’: Watch a Turkish Soccer Game Go Wildly Out of Control
- Posted on May 12, 2012 at 9:34pm by
Erica Ritz
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(The Blaze/AP) Hundreds of soccer fans stormed the field and clashed with police after the Turkish league championship.
The mayhem followed a 0-0 game Saturday that gave Galatasaray the title over rival Fenerbahce.
Fenerbahce fans broke plastic chairs, throwing them and flares at police. Police used their shields to protect the players at Fenerbahce’s Sukru Saracoglu Stadium, using pepper spray to disperse the fans and evacuate the stadium as players fled to locker rooms.
Elsewhere in the country, a 29-year-old man wearing a Galatasaray jersey was stabbed in the abdomen in an attack by Fenerbahce fans, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. The man was reported in stable condition.
Fans also turned over two police vehicles and set them on fire in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district, the news agency added. Police and citizens quickly put out the fire, it added. The fans also turned over garbage bins and shattered shop windows, leaving streets littered with fist-sized stones, state television showed.
The YouTube video below seems to depict the event (skip to 13 seconds in, if you want to get right to the action):
The fans at the league championship proceeded to toss chairs and other objects at a corridor leading to the locker rooms, following a tense game during which one player from each team drew a red card.
Sports channel Lig TV said some Fenerbahce fans also fought with police outside the stadium, throwing stones at a police vehicle with a water cannon.
Across the country, tens of thousands of Galatasaray fans took to the streets and honked car horns to celebrate their team’s 18th league title. The victory comes days after the Turkish soccer federation cleared all teams implicated in an alleged match-fixing scheme.
The federation punished some players and club officials but spared the clubs, including Fenerbahce, allegedly at the center of the scandal.
Turkey is bidding to host soccer’s 2020 European Championship and the 2020 Olympics in Istanbul. It’s unlikely Turkey would be granted both. The IOC would award the Olympics to Istanbul only on condition Turkey would not also stage the soccer championship in the same year. The government so far is supporting both bids.
Also bidding for the 2020 Olympics are Madrid; Tokyo; Doha, Qatar; and Baku, Azerbaijan. The IOC will announce the list of finalists May 23 and the host in September 2013. The deadline for Euro 2020 bids is May 15, and Turkey is the only candidate so far.
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TexasHunter
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 11:52amPlease send me to a deserted island away from civilization. Good grief..
Report Post »Chrischan74
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 11:38amAnd it is your President, who wants us Europeans to add these animals to the European Union…
Report Post »Any reasons for that? Well, maybe to destabilize the fragile European Community even more than it is now.
OhSnappage
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 1:20amIt’s a bunch of grown men kick the ball around. It is called a sport for a reason. The morons inflicting damage and harm should have the same inflicted upon themselves in their own homes. Clearly the populace is not well educated and morals reinforced to place such little value on their own society.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 11:19pmsane and realistic humans ignore sports except at the weekend community level. Only the sane will understand .
Report Post »izukiddin
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:49pmHey George, your country‘s in the crapper and you’re rioting over a soccer match?
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:27pmWhen did this happen …After a face east and kiss a magic carpet religion of peace sunrise service….
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:11pmTypical moron mentality.
Report Post »purecolorartist
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:53pmLooks like the Turks invented a new game, and it looks a lot more exciting than soccer!
Report Post »Pbizzel
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:30pmLet me paint this picture for you…the last place on earth you would expect to find me is a soccer event in a country under a radical Islam regime.
Report Post »TheCoffinMaker
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 12:07pmBoogady boogady boogady boo.
Over a stupid friggin game!
Sports fans are have become lunatics …football, soccer, basketball, even minor kids baseball.
Adults and fat nasty parents arguing over a kids game.
Immaturity gone wild.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:02amSomeone should have called Muhammad a name in the middle of that and the whole crowd would have joined together to attack the infidel.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:48amThis is what happens when nationalism is played out on the field of a children’s game.
The growth of this “sport” should be limited in America. It is not an athletic competition.
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 10:40am…new,updated joke…” I went to Turkey, to watch the OWS-trash the place…and a [soccer-game] broke out.”
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:20pmHistorically… “Sports”… are Competitions comparing Military Skills & Ability!
Report Post »reconmarine
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:00amCompared to many parts of the world the U.S. still practices civility for the most part but we’re getting to the point of civil unrest quickly..
Report Post »carl_in_ohio
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:07amI wish people were this passionate about creating peace around the world, feeding the hungry, and creating jobs!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:01amIstanbul… is an Arab contraction for… Constantinople… the old Capital of the Eastern Roman Empire… conquered by Muslims. And, this looks like Ancient Roman “games” at a Circus!
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:51amLiberate Constantinople!
500 years of muslim occupation is enough!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 1:31am@MIKE…
Report Post »Interesting… who has the best Claim to the City? The Italians? Or, the French, through the marriage of the King of Jerusalem? Maybe we can buy it from the Caliph that resides in London?
FaithFamilyandFriends
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:53am“Wildly out of control” and “breaking plastic chairs” do NOT belong in the same sentence. ESPECIALLY if it is a header on a news story.
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 10:44amThe ChairCorp. just fabricated way to many chairs, so the local soccer team was hired to (NancyPeelosi)”recyclinng!” them. This is a non-story
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:44pmNot sure if many of you are soccer fans but honestly this isnt completely out of the ordinary.
Report Post »TheEDGE
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 12:14amWhat, the 0-0 final score?
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:29pmI am speechless…
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