‘Goalkeeper Gone Wild’: Dutch Player Ejected for Kicking Drunk Fan Who Stormed Field
- Posted on December 22, 2011 at 6:05am by
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AMSTERDAM (AP)—An Ajax supporter ran onto the field and tried to attack the goalkeeper of visiting AZ Alkmaar in a Dutch cup match Wednesday, leading to the game being suspended after just 36 minutes.
The fan, identified by Ajax as a 19-year-old who had been drinking, approached Alkmaar’s Esteban Alvarado from behind, but the Costa Rican keeper saw the supporter in time and skillfully tripped him.
Immediately afterward, Alvarado, enraged by the unexpected and unprovoked attack, kicked the supporter twice where he lay before security guards dragged the intruder off the pitch.
Referee Bas Nijhuis then gave Esteban a red card for violence. Alkmaar coach Gertjan Verbeek ordered his side to walk out in protest.
“I understand that Esteban was defending himself, but he walked to him (the supporter) and kicked him multiple times,” Nijhuis said, defending the decision to send the goalkeeper off. “He could also have walked away.”
Ajax was leading the round-of-16 match 1-0 after a goal by Gregory van der Wiel. Attempts to convince Alkmaar to continue were fruitless.
Alkmaar’s players “didn’t feel safe anymore in this situation,” said club director Toon Gerbrands.
Ajax apologized for the security lapse and said the supporter will receive a lifetime ban from games.
Dutch football association director Bert van Oostveen said his organization is considering the incident, but is not certain whether the game will be replayed.
“Maybe I would have done the same thing, maybe not,” said Ajax coach Frank de Boer, a renowned former defender for Netherlands’ national team, of Alvarado’s reaction. “But emotionally I do understand it.”
Editor’s note: Hat tip to the New York Times which called this Goalkeeper Gone Wild.
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Comments (78)
Phantom II
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 11:49amWhat few realize is that soccer is been rammed down our throats because it is another tool in the Democrats inventory to destroy our values and traditions. It is shocking that the sheeples allow the destruction of our country.
Report Post »DownWithLibs
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 11:57amI totally agree. Soccer is a liberal activity. This was the tool used to push the “there are no winners and losers” when let’s face it, they are playing soccer they are all losers. It’s a game everyone can play. There are no tryouts so kids don‘t learn that you always don’t make the team. Those who think soccer is this great sport. Let’s look at it this way. We could use all the professional soccer players in the world, swapping players as you like, and battle against all the NFL players in every sport in the world. The soccer players might beat the NFL guys at soccer.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:33pmobvious troll is obvious.
This is one of those posts that falls under the “too absurd to be serious” category.
Report Post »Yeah_Buddy
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:40pmSoccer is gay. End of story.
Report Post »eyedoc5
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 2:08pmhahahaha, yeah_buddy is right.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 3:48pmSoccer is a freaking sport for Socialists. Seriously, think about it every sport “invented” in the USA is opposite of the socialist sports of the work. Our clocks go to “zero” theirs start at “zero”. Baseball opposite of cricket, football opposite of rugby. Basketball… well, ummm.
We tried SO hard to differ from them now we emulate these wussies!
Report Post »coindexter
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 4:05pmright on man! just like tennis with all that 30-LOVE crap and that stupid nascar going around in circles in the same direction crap and that idiot boxing crap where two guys punch the crap out of each other for a draw or “decision”crap and that stupid MLB with that ridiculous thing called the “WORLD” series in which only teams from the USA play..oh and canada crap and that stupid football sport in which the foot is rarely even used. lets just be haters blazers…it’s what we do best.
Report Post »bpodlesnik
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 9:33pmSeriously? You are going to lable everyone that plays soccer is either a Socialist or a Liberal? This is one of the most absurd comments I have read on here.
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 12:15amhahaha, I would love to see a single one of you play a soccer game full length. Better yet, you play against me and I will legally show you just how physical soccer can be. I doubt you will even be able to walk after the game, for days, if not weeks. That is, if you could even make it through a half. Not to mention, it’s really a team sport dependent upon a great number of different components. I agree, it isn’t as fun to watch, but don’t be fulled, I broke my thumb, arm, and leg playing soccer. Also, knocked one guy unconscious and split another guys head wide open. This isn’t even to mention the countless number of people I had crushed while playing sweeper. I played hockey, basketball, football, baseball, and volleyball, along with soccer. Soccer requires more endurance than any of the sports. Hockey is far more exhausting, but you get to sub. Basketball is about the closest to Soccer, but it is different. Yeah, liberals all play soccer, funny stuff. Of course, may of you couldn’t compete in any sport at a professional level, so it really doesn’t mean anything to you about what is psychically required of an athlete to play any of these sports. I don’t know what it is lately, but more and more I am finding I maybe don’t belong on this site anymore. After an entire year, a full member to GBTV, I just am starting to feel like I can’t relate to alot of the comments on these pages anymore. This just started happening when these campaigns started.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 11:17amkicking drunks, eating each other…what is this, Dutch gone wild?
Report Post »db321
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:24pmForget this – we have more important things to talk about in Sports – like Teabow giving credit to his Lord.
Report Post »KeithOlberdink
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 11:05amlol soccer
Report Post »Picard
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 10:56amhttp://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid72484359001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAAFSL1bg~,CmS1EFtcMWGovGFz9QK5QoNdeeLc1Zro&bctid=1341196150001 Link to video
Report Post »theamericanvision
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 10:55amIn Socialist countries, you’re supposed to let the attacker get back up again to have another opportunity to attack you, it’s only fair.
Report Post »ThankBabyJesus
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:16amI’ve never thought of it that way. Makes absolute sense.
Report Post »ShyMan
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 10:54amGooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »autigers2010champs
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 9:56amOk watched the video and the player was kicked out of the game???? Really
Report Post »autigers2010champs
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 9:54amGood for the soccer player also that is why you never see this in American football we wear pads. I don’t understand kick ball any way.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 9:28amTechnically “down” is “out”. The goalie tapped him out with his foot..
Report Post »King Troy
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 9:00amwhites again?
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 9:05amNo, sports idiots, animals of the lowest order.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 10:01amSports is a way of controlling the masses.
Give them enough to live on job or no job, but not enough to get ahead. Restrict their freedoms. They have nothing to be passionate about. So let them have sports. The rich can enlarge their holding, have the freedom to travel (carbon tax does not affect them) & have more rewarding careers.
Marx said religion is the opiate of the masses. Well without religion sports will have to substitute. Gotta keep the epsilons engaged somehow.
Ain’t the welfare state grand!
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 10:24am@ Walkabout
Give them enough to live on job or no job, but not enough to get ahead. Restrict their freedoms. They have nothing to be passionate about. So let them have sports. The rich can enlarge their holding, have the freedom to travel (carbon tax does not affect them) & have more rewarding careers.
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I notice the one thing that never makes it into the conversation is the “working your ass off part” of being rich. Also, “being rich” has a lot to do with how wealth is managed, not just the amount.
It’s called struggle, sacrifice, blood, sweat & tears for a reason. In the end, it really boils down to tenacious motivation and personal responsibility – two rare commodities it seems.
Don‘t knock the rich until you’ve tried it.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 10:55amDrunks are so stupid….. they get a little alcohol in them and think they
Report Post »are invinsible…..Wrong…….I think I may call it a draw..Drunk shouldn’t
have gone on field and player shouldn’t have kicked him.Can’t see video
so not sure how close the drunk got to him.
Johnny Cocheroo
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 11:14am@walkabout –
You are probably right about 50 years ago – nowadays, the masses are controlled with televisions and video games. Think about how much time people actual spend doing nothing in front of them – living their dreams by watching “dancing with the stars, soap operas or the bachelor”.
A total waste of time but a great way to get away from reality.
On a side note – have you ever read “A Brave New World”? When reading it, it came to mind that TV is our “soma”.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:03pmTSUNAMI-22
There are rich like the founder of Paypal who earned it. There are rich who inherited it, manage it well, & cause no problems.
Then there are rich like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid who get rich through corruption. They can get rich all do long thru hook ups & pass laws & increase tax rates to make it difficult for anyone else to become3 better off.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:04pmCorrection
Report Post »They can get rich all “day” long thru hook ups.
Walkabout
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:06pmsissykatz
I’m tired of drunks running onto the field, fighting, streaking or causing general mayhem.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 5:00pm@ Walkabout
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:03pm
TSUNAMI-22
There are rich like the founder of Paypal who earned it. There are rich who inherited it, manage it well, & cause no problems.
Then there are rich like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid who get rich through corruption. They can get rich all do long thru hook ups & pass laws & increase tax rates to make it difficult for anyone else to become3 better off.
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You’re preaching to the choir. All I‘m saying is don’t paint all rich people with such a broad brush. Not all wealth is measured in monetary increments.
As far as laws go, laws only affect honest people – just like gun laws only affect law abiding citizens.
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:30amFunny! You can’t post the video here but Youtube has no problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQk-Uw4QME
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:23amThere is a reason why football aka soccer is the most popular sport in the world — to peeoff fat, lazy, armchair football coaches that live vicariously through real athletes. Don‘t bash different sports because you don’t like them and/or cannot grasp the concept. Get your fat, lazy butts off of the sofa and try to play the game before you open your traps.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:32amYou seem to have attached your Self Identity to… a Team or Sport… and seem to think that any Criticism is thereby directed to you!
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 9:10amWhat does liking a sport have to do with this story?
Report Post »stormerwasright
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:20amLove them Dutch folk…..I hear they’re real fun to party with in Aruba too….
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 10:26amOooooohhhh….lol !
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:19amThere is a reason whey football aka soccer is the most watched and popular sport in the world — to piss of fat lazy armchair football coaches.
Report Post »valerie68
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:07amI haven’t seen the video, but, don’t mess with a goalie. My only question is where was the defense? They are supposed to protect the goalie, even against angry fans! Not a fan of european soccer, but am a total fan of soccer itself. My son himself is a pretty darn good goalie. I hope he wouldn’t have kicked this guy, but he certainly wouldn’t have allowed the idiot to attack him. He’s learned a takedown or two in his taekwondo days!
Report Post »Jim & Donna
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:44amI was a keeper. My son is a keeper. Try it on us and see what happens. We wouldn’t have just kicked him. The idea of an appropriate level of violence is just dumb. If you are attacked, hurt the attacker so badly that they never want to try it again. Do you really want the keeper to have to peek out the locker room door after every game wondering who is going to attack him next? I say let the attackers be ware. In the future, you know you are going to get red carded….get your money’s worth!
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:02amSoccer…I laugh. It’s just stupid. Kinda like the NBA. Real men want either contact or strategy. Hence Football and Baseball…Soccer…LOL
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:30amHey! we agree!!
Merry Christmas!
Report Post »DoseofReality
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 9:27amyeah, real men want contact with other real men, all muscular and wearing tights. The ****-eroic nature of the NFL dwarfs soccer….
Report Post »RavenGlenn
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 11:21amSo…you bash soccer for not being manly, then you say Football and Baseball?(Really? BASEBALL?!)
How about Hockey? Or Rugby? Sports where they don’t have the insanely huge pads of football and still hit the crap out of each other. Hell, in hockey, you can fist fight each other.
Report Post »valerie68
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:59pmIt takes a lot of guts to do what goalies do! As I say to people, you have to be 50% aggressive and 50% crazy! Who else would wrap his body around a ball just before the shooter takes his shot? Or take a dive hands fully out to block a ball and land completely on his side without using his hands? Also, goalies are very protective of their goal. Kind of like German Shepherd to his home. Don’t mess with them!
Report Post »notreally
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 7:51amGreat response to an OWS-type thug. They ought to post warning signs around the stadium:
“Any non-players entering the playing field risk being violently assaulted by players”
You go to a baseball game and you’ll see a warnings about the possibility of being hit by a baseball. If you still go to the game you are deemed to have assumed that risk, which affects liability issues.
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:28amLet’s not forget that if you run on the field in Philly and you get shot with a taser.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 7:40am.
This is not a Sport……Here is the game in a nut shell Kick Ball, Run, Run, Run get tripped act like you dying. Get up Repeat, for 90 minutes…………..
The Fans are Drunk for a reason. It‘s the only you can get’em, to sit and watch a match, game, chucker, scrodom whatever you call it……..
Report Post »Thecoolhandluke
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 7:59amYou can make any sport sound stupid if you describe it in a stupid way. Guess what this sport is: throw the ball, run run run, get thrown to the ground, “act like you (sic) dying. Get up repeat for” 60 minutes. That’s right, American football. And perhaps you didn’t realize it, but NFL fans get drunk while watching games just as soccer fans. By the way, words such as “sport” and “drunk” don’t need to be capitalized. Maybe you were too busy playing football in school to learn anything in English class, but capitalizing random nouns and adjectives looks strange.
Report Post »Thecoolhandluke
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:02amOh and the “Run, Run, Run”–capitalizing random verbs also looks strange…
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:12am.
Report Post »You Spent to much Time in the Box…..You just Jealous cause your not Funny…..
THXll38
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:18amSpank . . . You just got PWNED!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:22am@Thecoolhandnoob
Report Post »Lighten up, Francis. Have a Merry Christmas!
SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:32am.
Spank . . . You just got PWNED! PWNED? I did not feel a thing……
Drinking and Posting again I see…..
Report Post »Jayms
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:35pmGeez man, by your definition nothing is a sport, it’s just some people waving their arms and legs randomly on TV.
Report Post »00gabooga
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 7:23amThey should all be kicked off the field for playing soccer.
Report Post »No Quarter
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 7:09amI think the player showed tremendous restraint.
Report Post »By attacking the goal keeper he was asking to be beat to death but got off easy.
jedi.kep
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 6:50amCan‘t view the video’s. Copyright crap…
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 6:44amShoulda kicked the drunk in the head…..
Report Post »Warpig-0311
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 6:21amIt’s soccer. Who cares?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 6:20amWho cares? Zzzzzzz
Report Post »Sorocialism
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 6:12amI call shenanigans…the player was defending himself. The drunk attacks and gets beat down…nuff said.
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