The new era of barbarism

Even in Argentina, the country that exported violence in soccer to the rest of America through its brave bars, the savagery of Querétaro caused shock and disbelief, as if the limits of the limits never suspected had been crossed.

"Something like this has never happened here," was the stunned conclusion of most fans who have known for decades that going to the Monumental, La Bombonera and the rest of the stadiums is also surfing between waves of insecurity and barbarism.

Probably the greatest massacres occurred in the world, such as the one in Port Said in Egypt in 2012, but the one in Querétaro seemed to open a new era: criminality in soccer transmitted by the mobile phones of the rest of the fans.

As a parable, it was just in the World Cup in Mexico in 1986 when the Argentine braves became known outside their country.

Those were still times when English

aroused the greatest fear in football.

The year before, 39 Italian Juventus fans had died before a match against Liverpool in Heysel, Brussels.

In their passage through Monterrey and Mexico City, the

were seen as aliens from an alien movie: they occupied the stands with their naked torsos, milky skin and a glass of beer.

Some wore masks and others exhibited tattoos that were then associated with marginality.

However, if the route of the

and the brave fans sowing terror in the stands were analyzed with line graphs, the English were in 1986 at the highest point of their trajectory, but they would soon begin their downward curve, while the curve The ascendancy of the violent Argentines would continue to grow in the following decades.

Leaders of fans from different South American countries have since come to Argentina to get advice on violence in soccer.

That is, on how to build a shock force in a business, an industry.

As pointed out by the sports newspaper

in 2007, delegates from the Pumas, Tigres and América from Mexico, and from América and Deportivo Cali from Colombia, traveled to Buenos Aires to consult with Argentine bravas.

Also from clubs in Chile.

But what happened in Querétaro is so disturbing that it exceeds any antecedent or possible criminal education, even from the pioneering barra bravas.

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Although the violent groups in Argentine soccer were born in the 1960s and grew in the 1970s, it was in the 1980s that they consolidated, began to use firearms, forged pacts with political leaders, expanded their businesses, made extortion their way of to progress and became uncontrollable.

The scenography in the Argentine courts ended up being detonated in the following years, when deaths, bullets, flares, firearms and knives became the daily landscape.

Different organizations calculate that there were more than 250 fans killed in football, sometimes victims of confrontations between rival fans, others due to fights between factions of the same club (the business is so big that some clubs have three subgroups) and, also, due to a Police sometimes wild and others in collusion with the violent.

But images like those of Querétaro produce

even in Argentine soccer, the country of the brave bars, where it is difficult to imagine such a massive madness in view of thousands of people, among other reasons because the league matches only have partiality local.

The presence of the two fans was prohibited in Ascent in 2007 and in the First Division in 2013, after two separate murders.

Even so, with a single partiality, a River-Boca can have up to 2,000 police officers and, however, be suspended before its start due to incidents, as happened in the 2018 Copa Libertadores final, transferred to Madrid.

Although a tense calm seems to have gained space in the stadiums in recent years, the violence is lurking and no one is surprised if any game ends in the worst way.

The never seen, this time, came from Mexico.

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