No solution: the challenge of identifying the violent among football fans

“How am I going to forget when we kill a chicken”, sing the Peñarol fans. The scorer Agustín Álvarez Martínez, appeared in a live video on Instagram singing that song, which led him to testify in the Prosecutor’s Office and apologize. We killed Rodri and Hernán, two giles who sleep in a tubular for chickens, ”sang the Nacional fans in the first game of 2022, referring to the murder of Rodrigo Aguirre and Hernán Fiorito, gold-black fans killed by rival bars. January, two men who were fans of Nacional killed a teenager from Peñarol in retaliation because others had killed Washington Rodríguez Simón, who was one of the 16 who had murdered Fiorito in 2016, according to the theory of the Prosecutor’s Office, confirmed Mirta Morales to The Observer. This episode once again brought to the fore a problem that at times becomes silent and at others explodes in everyone’s face: violence in football. Despite the progress that has made it possible to reduce clashes inside or near the stadiums, how to solve the problem outside is unknown to the clubs and the authorities.