Gunfire at Mexican Soccer Game Sends Players, Fans Scrambling for Cover
- Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:05am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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MEXICO CITY (The Blaze/AP) — A First Division Mexican soccer match was suspended Saturday after gunmen opened fire on police outside the stadium in the northern city of Torreon, causing players and referees to run for cover.
Local clubs Santos and Morelia were tied 0-0 at the 40-minute mark when the shots were heard inside the stadium.
Televised footage showed the players and referees dashing off the field to take cover inside the stadium. Santos’ Argentine forward Emanuel Luduena ran with his child in his arms.
Fans, many with children, ducked for cover, trying to lie flat against their seats and hundreds ran onto the field to move away from the sound of the gunfire outside TSM stadium.
Fans of soccer club Santos walk on the field after leaving the bleacher area after hearing shooting outside the stadium Territorio Santos Modelo in Torreon, Mexico, Saturday Aug. 20, 2011. The match was suspended after an armed group attacked a police patrol outside the stadium, authorities said. (AP Photo/El Siglo de Torreon)
Torreon police and local soccer officials said the attack left one police officer injured, but no one was hurt inside the stadium.
Gunmen opened fire on a police patrol near the stadium, said Fernando Olivas, the regional delegate for Coahuila state‘s attorney general’s office.
“The public security vehicle was attacked by unidentified gunmen outside TSM and the preliminary information we have is that one policeman was injured,” Olivas told Milenio TV.
Fans of soccer club Santos take cover between the stadium seats as they hear shooting outside the stadium Territorio Santos Modelo in Torreon, Mexico, Saturday. (AP Photo/El Siglo de Torreon)
Santos team president Alejandro Irarragorri went to the center of the field, accompanied by goaltender Oswaldo Sanchez, to announce that the game had been suspended.
“In the Santos club, we feel bad for the time in which we are living. It is evident that the game will be suspended,” Irarragorri told the crowd. “You can be assured that we will try to control these situations. We are sorry for Morelia, the referees and those who are visiting us from elsewhere.”
It is the first premiere league game that has been canceled in Mexico because of drug violence, though last year a baseball game was suspended in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, because of a similar incident.
Police did not say who the gunmen were, but Torreon has recently been the scene of fighting between the powerful Sinaloa and Zetas drug cartels.
Torreon is located about 621 miles north of Mexico City in the border state of Coahuila.
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Comments (67)
tckid17
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:48amThe Police were on hand issuing Red Cards.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:11pmAnd Nobel Peace Prizes
Report Post »ACLUHater
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 1:51pmA cesspool. And dumbo in chief wants them to come here?
Report Post »frodis
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 6:55pmFigures. To think in the 90′s i thought Mexico was moving forward but wow they have gone straight to hell.
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:31amWhen guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns.
Any questions?
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 1:03pmDidn’t our government just send the drug lords down there a bunch of assault weapons? I’m sure they appreciated that.
Report Post »101
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:23amIt’s illegal to have possession of a gun in Mexico.
Report Post »noah2854
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 1:16pmthis is the biggest lie I used to live in df and every body have guns in the palenkes so don’t keep on repeating the same lies mexicans are notorious for been violent people .
Report Post »101
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:42pmExactly, guns courtesy of Eric Holder “fast & furious”!
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:05amDid the government blame it on the USA! We haven’t let enough illegals in?
Report Post »roadhog
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:04amJust a day in Mexico. They do the same here in the U.S on the weekends.
Report Post »Kathleen3
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 3:53pmThe Mexicans (82% here illegally) are much more civil here in the U.S. They do not fire guns; rather, they attack, assault, and beat to a pulp with their fists any American who acknowledges they support an opposing team. They are, fro the most part, barbarians.
Report Post »JustinHale
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:24pmThat’s no joke… I live in Fort Bragg CA, and there has been a shooting every week for the five weeks and one murder. One of the shootings was random and my niegbors truck was shot. If you know how small Ft. Bragg is then this is very alarming…
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:12pmKathleen3
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 3:53pm
The Mexicans (82% here illegally) are much more civil here in the U.S. They do not fire guns; rather, they attack, assault, and beat to a pulp with their fists any American who acknowledges they support an opposing team. They are, fro the most part, barbarians.
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Correct and somehow they will get to vote several times for el presidente Obama.
Report Post »jedidiah
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 10:49amYou all have missed the key issue; it’s 40 minutes into a game people pay hard-earned money to attend and the score is — as always — 0-0!
I‘m sure there are avid Mexican soccer fans in their 90s who can vividly recall every goal they’ve ever seen in the entirely of their lifetimes. Who can blame them for a bit of frustration?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:12pmThey can count them on one hand. If there fingers haven’t been shot off.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:25pmIf they would let 4 or 5 bulls on the soccer field, it would be more exciting. Heck, I’d pay a couple pesos to see that.
Report Post »Treestump
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 10:20amThis is bad reporting. I know less after reading it then before. How was it related to drugs? Why did the gunman fight with the police?
There is mahem in Mexico. Soldiers ride around in vehicles that look like Somalian Technicals with huge guns on them. Every building needs a guard 24 hours otherwise things disappear.
Blame it on chaos.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:48amBlaze is slipping .Fox has vidio and story on voilence at SF football game .
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 10:12am.
Report Post »Luckily, no one was injured, because most mexicans are already in the US.
ares338
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:43amThe key word is Mexican. Who cares?
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:55amI would think that all of us should care – an armed conflict anywhere in the world just makes out economic situation and that of other counties that much worse. That was a very crude remark that you made.http://wp.me/pYLB7-1vg
Report Post »ddg7
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 10:04amThe headline was incorrect. It should have read, ‘Gunfire at Mexican Soccer Game Sends Players, Fans Scrambling for Their Guns’
Report Post »kreese
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 10:06amThis reminds me of the “Coming Attractions” I saw at the movies as a kid. This “Movie”, soon to be seen at your local theater! Make no mistake–itsa coming, with a lot of help from our beloved Dictator-in-Chief.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:38amObama should be impeached for ‘fast and furious’. He interferred with a nation at peace with us on our border and caused thousands of their people to be killed and even some Americans. He is a socialist/communist maniac.
Report Post »As for as Mexico…their only answer is total war with the cartels where people are killed on- sight and whole neighborhoods are burnt to the ground.
noah2854
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 1:18pmRight on ,and for allowing the illegals mostly from mexico to stay in here destroying this country .
Report Post »F, oblamer
UlyssesP
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:37amI went to a Mexican gunfight and a soccer game broke out! Madness!
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:47amLol.
Report Post »brenlynn
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:34amBush should have done something about the borders as well!! Obama will certainly not do anything about the border, he needs the votes. Unfortunately, we are all going to pay a heavy price.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:29amThe fast and furious was about the stupidest idea ever, and I would like to know who came up with the idea that it would work. And who gave the go ahead? Every time I hear about a shooting in Mexico now, I wonder if it was done with a gun from here that someone in this administration ok’ed.
Report Post »SkiTuna
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:39pmBarry Obama being born was a very stupid thing!!!
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:24amHave you noticed trhat Mexico is like Phillie – NYC – DC and Chicago! Only the cops- Military and the drug cartels have guns. A private average citizen can’t get a carry permit. If Mexico would let everyone over age 21 have a permit and guns alll their problems will go away. At first there would be a cleaning effect and the all would be peacfull.
Report Post »Wyatt's Torch
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:21amNothing to see here…those fans aren’t cowering in fear for their lives under their seats, that gunshot was just announcing that it was siesta time and they are all taking part in a large group siesta… move along now… nothing to see here, go back to your facebook, twitter, sports, or pornography please…
Report Post »soapman
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:04amIts really depressing to watch our GREAT country turning into a banana republic, what you see going on in Mexico , which i mite add was a wonderful country at one time, is all coming here sooner than most think,,, look at Mexico and see what this great country will look like soon,,, just amazing to see this happening to our nation
Report Post »soapman
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:00amThis is all coming to a city by you soon,,,,
Report Post »quicker
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:05amSeen on Fox news a slug feist at football game.Didn`t get loction.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:21am>Quicker. San Francisco (49rs/Raiders game). Looked like some illegal anchor baby offspring to me duking it out.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:41amYes just caught the rest of the story.Also a man was badly beaten in a bathroom and 2 shot in the parking lot .But SF is a sactuary city go figure.It`s the Botox Sanfran gram mindset.
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:54amI wonder if Holder personally delivered these guns via Fast and Furious?
Report Post »jcizarter
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:06amI think they spotted a heavily armored black bus parked in the area. People in the bus were registering voters and handing out guns with pictures of Obama. Now they will be able to cross their northern border to vote.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:52amMore Mexican gunfire … This is news?
Report Post »jbh
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:46amWondering if the guns used are are Fast And Furious?
Report Post »mcpbob
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:45amMexico is a lost cause…. (for Mexicans), Mexican‘s don’t have the balls to stand up and fight for their own country, instead they all flee to the U.S. illegally… then when they are here they praise their own goverment and put the U.S. down… Mexicans have no one to blame but themselves… it is time for them to all go home and fight the war that should have been fought 50 years ago…
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 2:29pmYou are correct. I live in South Texas. So many are here illegally. They don’t hide anymore. They play their narcocorridos blasting from their rim spinning suburbans. They have foodstamps and do not speak any English at all. I see it everyday and I am repulsed. The Mexican nation was once the strongest on earth. An empire at one time. The Mexican people are losing their nation and have been for some time. They have no real voice and the cartels run everything. They need to have the right to bear arms and defend themselves responsibly. They should not come to this country illegally and degrade it, by adding more burdens to our economic system.They do not pay respect and allegiance to the United States, and of course pay zero taxes. The Mexican people need to take their nation back. Make it great again. The United States has to so the same, but we need to take it back from the Fed Reserve, and political demons sent to ruin us all. Mexico will be a needed ally if the fight with Islamists continue.Mexico is 95% Christian/Catholic. Get it together Mexico!! The U.S. can no longer carry your people!!! We’re falling apart here!!!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:36amDon‘t you just love the fact that our border isn’t secured? Gee, thanks, President Obama. Guess you just really need those votes for 2012.
Report Post »VAWhiteFighter
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:25amHad it been INSIDE the stadium many would be killed from the stampede to get out.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:24amWhat do you call two Mexicans playing soccer against each other?
Jaun on Juan.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:06amDo ya think it could be some of those US Government guns?
Report Post »drago
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:24am@Hks
Report Post »I believe most of the fast and furious guns ended up on the streets here in the U.S. so odumbo can equip his army. But i guarantee is one is used in a crime here, we will never find out that is was one from the FaF debacle….