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 Spanish league are Ultras sur and Boixos nois, hooligans of Real Madrid and F.C.Barcelona, but there are more violent groups like Biris, Frente Atlético, Brigadas Blanquiazules and Ciareiros.
The organized violent groups started in England in 80’, 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 skin head people who have a radical ideology so a lot of this groups are identified whit fascist groups. By the other hand, there are some violent groups identified with anti fascist groups, the most important of them are Biris (Sevilla), Ciareiros (Deportivo) and the hooligans from Marseille. Another important feature of this groups is that all of them are nationalist.
We can find one example of this violence in catalan derby in Lluís Companys stadium when boixos nois started to destroy the stadium and light flares.