Brazil makes soccer exciting

[Cornhead]

Amateur Brazilian soccer match. Ref stabs player to death after a dispute, family and friends get revenge, gruesome.Don't look at the video if you are squeamish.
http://deadspin.com/referee-kills-player-then-gets-beheaded-at-brazilian-so-685459212

 

[4aprice]

No comment about the above story as it seems all too common in Football (soccer) crazy countries. But Brazil now has to be the favorite going into next years World Cup. They just thrashed Spain in the final of what ever tourniment they played this summer. Spain had not lost in like 30 games but Brazil scored on them in like the first minute and never let up.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[ScottySkis]

Dam they don't need go to movies with drama like that.

 

[bvibert]

Wow

 

[JimG.]

I think it's funny that with all the dramatic and stylized violence that we Americans produce and watch that this really seems to blow most folks away. Probably because it's real, not acted. I guess that I'm pretty used to these types of events from years of watching soccer, especially with South American teams whose fans literally live and die with the sport. But it's the same in England where violence and hooliganism is common. Pretty crazy stuff.

 

[Edd]

It's darkly hilarious that they've been cracking down on crime in preparation for the Olympics. Refs packing knives...followed by decapitation...okey-doke.

If the opening ceremonies were like a 200 man gang fight that would blow China's shit out of the water.

 

[snowmonster]

I hope Brazil win the World Cup next year so they can finally lay to rest their nightmare from 1950 when they lost the final at the Maracana. The goalkeeper on that fateful day basically lived like a pariah for the rest of his life.