Fußball in Lateinamerika

It all began in 1995. There was an U-20 championship final between São Paulo and Palmeiras – two of the main rivals of Brazil`s biggest city – at Pacaembu, which one of the stands was being reconstructed at the time. After the final whistle both sides ultras got on the pitch and a medieval battle took place. With rocks and wooden pieces from the stand that was being rebuilt each group attacked smaller rival groups, that eventually managed to regroup and get larger, then becoming the attackers.