Brazil duo pays price for fan riots
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The two teams whose fans fought running battles on the terraces during a Brazilian first division game last weekend have been ordered to play a total of 20 matches away from their own cities.
Brazil’s Superior Court of Sporting Justice ruled on Friday that host Atletico Paranaense must play 12 home games at least 100 kilometers from its home city of Curitiba and six of them must be behind closed doors.
Opponent Vasco da Gama, which was relegated after losing the match, must play eight games outside Rio de Janeiro, four of them behind closed doors.
Atletico was also fined 140,000 Brazilian reais (US$59,900)and Vasco was fined 80,000 reais.
The fighting was a huge embarrassment for the hosts of next year’s World Cup and came days after world governing body FIFA said some stadiums had missed an initial deadline to be ready.
Atletico, playing in a rented stadium while its own arena is being refurbished for next June-July’s showpiece, was 1-0 up in last Sunday’s game when fights broke out in the stands.
The match was halted for more than an hour as hooligans ran riot and a police helicopter landed on the pitch to ferry one injured fan to hospital. Four people were seriously hurt.
The game, which marked the end of the Brazilian season, eventually restarted and Atletico won 5-1.
“The repercussions and the seriousness of what happened made such a punishment inevitable,” Atletico’s lawyer Domingos Moro told reporters.
Both clubs said they will appeal the decisions.
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