For many of the teams in the rise of Argentine soccer, the wait had become eternal.
Almost four months passed before several of the First National clubs could compete again as a result of the format of the last tournament and the date chosen to start the season, this last weekend.
But far from the game, the most important and difficult category in Argentina once again left those images that are always tried to be dissociated from sport:
two dead, murdered meters from the field where the Chacarita and Gimnasia de Mendoza matches continued as if nothing would have happened
.
The violent weekend on the Argentine soccer fields, the same one that just 14 months ago achieved the third world star, did not end there.
In the First B, a match was suspended due to incidents between barracks and police intervention, while in the Regional Amateur Tournament - a step prior to Federal A, the third category of the ranking -, a team was robbed upon reaching its own locker room, where rival fans ambushed them to beat them before a final.
Inexplicable.
Let's go in parts, then, with a criterion of severity and not chronological.
On Saturday, it was the inmate of the Chacarita gang that claimed the life of
Jorge Daniel Durán
, 43, as a result of a stab wound in the middle of a fight that began in the heart of the popular tribune and continued in access to the stadium in the Buenos Aires town of San Martín.
It all happened during halftime of the match in which 'Funebrero' received Deportivo Maipú, from Mendoza, who ended up winning 2 to 0. The duel resumed at 6:30 p.m.
As incidents had occurred, the game was
delayed for 20 minutes
.
Referee
Pablo Giménez
said:
"A situation was recorded that the police have already resolved. We have the guarantee to continue the match
. "
According to reports from the APreViDe (Agency for the Prevention of Violence in Sports), Durán was hit
twice
.
One in the neck and one in the abdomen.
The camera images show a swirl at the access.
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Loop.
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Two days after the murder, the Police are still on the trail of the murderer, whom they have identified.
His arrest is expected and, also, a de facto sanction for the San Martín club.
The APreViDe evaluates two alternatives:
closing the stadium or having the team play there, but behind closed doors at least on the next date they have to play at home
.
“The act was committed and there will be a sanction
,” they told
Clarín
from the Buenos Aires security agency, the department where they await the reports from Justice.
Durán, 43, used to attend the La Famosa stand, as the Chacarita bar is known.
However, for investigators his death had nothing to do with an internal.
What's more, they say that the main suspect, a 31-year-old man with an address in Villa Ballester, is not even part of the heaviest group.
"This was a completely isolated event that has nothing to do with factions or characterized fans, from what we were able to find out it was the result of the ingestion of a large amount of alcoholic beverages and drugs
," explained
Guillermo Cimadevila
, head of the Buenos Aires security agency. , to
Clarín
.
The Minister of National Security,
Patricia Bullrich
, sought to learn more about the issue through
Franco Berlin
, the new director of Security at Sports Events.
Another hypothesis has to do with a robbery.
At least, that is clear from the post that her daughter-in-law Yennifer Ruiz made on Facebook:
“He did not die, they killed him and on top of her they took his cell phone and wallet.
Until they all rot we don't stop.
Jorge, this doesn't stop here
. "
Twenty-four hours, another death and four detainees
The consternation over the violence in San Martín had not yet passed that a similar news story was brewing in Mendoza.
Minutes before the debut of Gimnasia of that province, another stabbed meters from the Victor Lagrotaglie stadium, where the 'Lobo' received Defensores de Belgrano, died in the middle of a pitched battle between two factions of the barrabrava.
Ricardo Nicolás Balles
, 32, was the one who received a stab in the chest and was left lying on the asphalt around 6:00 p.m. on Sunday at the intersection of Boulogne Sur Mer and Juan B. Justo streets, in the heart of General San Park. Martín, about 150 meters from the gymnastics court.
Balles' body lying on the asphalt.
The confrontation took place between the faction of the San Martín neighborhood and that of the Jesús Nazareno neighborhood, to which the victim belonged as well as his father Ramón Ricardo Balles (52), and although there was no previous record, a discussion over the distribution of tickets for entry was the trigger for what they described as a pitched battle, which included knives and firearms.
After clarifying the list and panorama of the others injured by the brawl -one is in intensive care-, it was specified that
four of these Gimnasia fans were detained
, two of them hospitalized with police custody.
Among the suspects are two members of the
Stay
family , from Guaymallén.
One of them, a 27-year-old young man, had a knife in his possession.
The place where the Gimnasia de Mendoza fan died due to a fight between barracks.
The first vice president of Gimnasia,
Carina Legrotaglie
, considered "very sad" what happened before the match that the 'Dragon' ended up winning in Mendoza:
"They decided that the match would be played, the whole problem was outside the field, here inside "Everything is fine. I know there was a mess, but I don't really know what happened. It's very sad what happened today, we were waiting these days to come to the field, it's something that happens in all of Argentine soccer. We don't know how to get it out." "To these people from the club who make these troubles, there are two or three of them, it's not all the people
. "
The match?
As happened in Chacarita, it was played the same, with a delay of 20 minutes and an unusual statement from the local club:
"AFA establishes that the match will only be played with the people who are currently inside the stadium
," he indicated. .
#OfficialCommunication 🗣️
Given the already known facts, AFA establishes that only the match vs Def will be played.
From Belgrano with only the people who are currently inside the stadium.
pic.twitter.com/IxhYhD5gPQ
— Gimnasia y Esgrima (@GimnasiaMendoza) February 4, 2024
Cañuelas and a debut frustrated by pure incident
The Primera B, the third category of Argentine soccer, was not exempt from violence.
Cañuelas' debut in the championship was frustrated by the suspension of the match against Midland, due to the confrontation between two factions of the 'Tambero' brava group, five minutes before the scheduled time for the opening whistle.
Delayed start of #Cañuelas-Midland.
Incidents around the Arin.
pic.twitter.com/8aoiEu3lEJ
— El Show del Sur (@ElShowdelSur) February 3, 2024
Everything was triggered when the access gate to the popular gallery was closed and part of the dissident faction remained outside, while the bulk of the official faction was inside.
After the intervention of the Police, the agents became the focus of the attack.
Thus, the battle, which lasted about an hour, ended with
four soldiers wounded
.
After 40 minutes of waiting, referee Gabriel Gutiérrez decided to suspend the match and now the case was left in the hands of the AFA Disciplinary Court.
“A confrontation takes place between two factions of the Cañuelas brava group (approximately 150 people) outside the stadium.
"They intervene by separating the parties and both fronts throw stones at the police personnel
," said the official report from the Agency for the Prevention of Violence in Sports (Aprevide).
Ambush in a tunnel in a final of the Federal Amateur Regional
On Sunday there were also serious incidents in the fourth category of soccer in the interior of the country.
The Federal Amateur Regional is in the midst of definitions to determine promotions to Federal A (Third Division).
In the run-up to the rematch of the Patagonia final, in Comodoro Rivadavia, Jorge Newbery fans ambushed the players of Deportivo Rincón de Los Sauces (Neuquén) in the locker room tunnel, who had won the first leg 2-0 and were looking to close the Serie.
David Boquín, footballer from Deportivo Rincón de Neuquén, attacked by fans of Jorge Newbery from Comodoro Rivadavia before a final of the Regional Federal Amateur of the Federal Council of AFA.
The visiting team's scorer
David Boquín
was the most affected by the incidents and ended up with a cut in his mouth, which caused bleeding.
According to reports from Deportivo Rincón, the Police cleared the area so that members of the Newbery fans could intimidate them, although everything went haywire and the verbal attacks became physical.
Coaching staff, players and leaders defended themselves as best they could and one of them filmed the moment of the attacks
.
#RincondelosSauces 🔴They ambushed and beat Deportivo Rincón players before the match with Jorge Newbery
👉It happened at the stadium in Comodoro Rivadavia.
👮🏼♂️ The Neuquino team's scorer David Boquín had a cut on his mouth.
pic.twitter.com/YCpi5wIonX
— Edgardo Pino (@chechealumine) February 4, 2024
Rincón also reported the theft of cleats, goalkeeper gloves and sports items
.
They even said that they tried to steal some of their cell phones.