Sad news, today, from the final of the Copa Liberatore (South America's equivalent to the Champion's League) - this year an all Argentinian contest between those bitter rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate. The Final is played over two home-and-away games, and was finely poised at 2-2 after an entertaining first leg, at Boca's ground.Unfortunately violence erupted today, with River 'fans' attacking the Boca player's team bus, resulting in the hospitalisation of two Boca players, and the rest of the team being affected by the tear gas used by the police to try and restore order.The game has had to be postponed to tomorrow (KO 15:00 ET).It's likely that River will face a ban from next season's competition, if not for several seasons.Unfortunately, there is history to this - on a previous meeting, in the Copa, Boca 'fans' pepper sprayed the River players as they came down the tunnel to go onto the pitch...
I hope this sort of soccer tribalism never comes into the MLS. We've had more than our fair share of it, over here, down the years...
