Violence in football

In this entry I want to talk about violence in football because it’s a real problem that affects all the football clubs. The most important violent groups in the Spanish League are Ultras Sur and Boixos Nois, hooligans of Real Madrid and FC Bareclona, but there’re more violent groups like Biris, Frente Atlético, Brigadas Blanquiazules and Ciareiros.

The organized violent groups started in England in the 80’s, and since the UEFA Champions League final of 1985 in Heisel stadium (Belgium) this phenomenon didn’t extended to the world.

This groups are formed by skinhead people who have radical ideology so a lof of this groups are identified with fascist groups. On the other hand, there are some violent groups identified with anti fascist ideologies, the most important ones are Biris (Sevilla), Ciareiros (Deportivo) and the Marseille hooligans. Another important feature of this group is that all of them are nationalist.

We can find ano example of this violence in catalan derby in Lluís Companys stadium when boixos nois started to destroy the stadium and light flares.