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When Club America and Chivas Guadalajara play each other, it's simply a blood feud...
They're the two most celebrated soccer clubs in Mexico and their fans and teams don't like each other. Someone came up with the idea of having the two play each other in Las Vegas for a friendly...
Which led to a lot of fans throwing everything at each other an hour before kickoff and things being thrown inside the stadium onto the pitch at players after the players got into a fight themselves and the game was finally over...
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And here...
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Classy... a little background...
Club America is owned by media group Televisa and they play home games at Azteca Stadium- the largest stadium in Latin America. Conventional wisdom is that CA is the most hated team in Mexico. Kinda like the Yankees...
Chivas plays at Estadio Omnilife in Guadalajara.
The fans weren’t the only ones who wanted to fight on Wednesday night. Four players from the two teams were ejected during the match. 400 fans were involved in the fights and it took 120 cops to break the whole evening up...
Here are the player ejections and the row from the first half...
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Here's team coverage...
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Las Vegas is worried that this incident will keep them from hosting more matches in the future...
And it should be...
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