The 14th date of the Liga Chaqueña de Fútbot in The Resistance was played. Villa Alvear received Sarmiento at the “Coco” Lucas stadium and had asked the local authorities to strengthen police personnel in order to avoid everything that happened next. In the 42nd minute of the first half, referee Guillermo González stopped the match by spotting visiting fans clamber up to the fences behind one of the arches, according to the site NovaChaco.
The level of violence was growing: first there was a shower of stones and blunt objects between the two biases; then, when they managed to break the tissue that separated them, they began to physically assault and some local media mention that there were even “gun shots.” About 15 minutes later, the police were just involved. Of course, the encounter was suspended. The Word of Villa Alvear
From the institution they issued a statement “repudiating and regretting the acts of violence experienced on the afternoon of this Saturday”, clarifying that what happened “has nothing to do with the values that the club predicted from its inception and made it a reference regional.”
From Villa Alvear issued a statement
In the letter reproduced by FMChaco, the pre-date talks with the local authorities are recounted: “The Leadership of Villa Alvear wants to make it clear that in a meeting prior to the start of the match, which was attended by the Chief in Charge of Operational the Party Judge Mr Guillermo González and the Delegate of this institution, Hector Insaurralde, where the Delegate of Villa Alvear informed the Chief of the Operative and in turn the judge of the party agreed, that it would be a good idea to reinforce with some the sector where the spaces allocated to each of the partialities converge.” According to the text, “the chief of the operative replied that he had only the staff assigned and that he was already adapted in the Stadium of Villa Alvear but that if he needed reinforcements he could count on them”. That is why the leadership of Villa Alvear takes all kinds of responsibilities into the events of violence that have occurred”, he concludes. According to Chaqueños newspapers, most of the local police personnel were on a political event.
