“They pointed weapons at us”: Fossati’s forceful description of what happened in Brazil and what the ‘U’ plans to do against Conmebol

It was the DIM-Universitario back, for the 1994 Copa Libertadores, Barbat’s team against Zubzuck’s, Chiqui García’s team against Sergio Markarián’s. It was the first time that thousands of Peruvian soccer fans like me, who was 13 years old, heard that phrase that says: . A primitive euphemism that talks about the inclusion of different characters, settings and decisions that make it (more) clear who is playing at home and who is visiting.

On Tuesday night, at the Estadio da Serrinha, the Brazilian police and a soccer player from Goiás, protected by the former, made the ‘U’ feel it. And he has made a decision.

Today that everything is recorded and recordable, the images of the attack reached all the newsrooms just minutes after the 1-0 defeat of the ‘U’ against Goiás, one of those goals that come out in Supercampeones. : Universitario had dominated the game, had two chances to score that were annulled by VAR due to offside and until minute 89, it was closer to getting a point than losing all three.

“The images of the aggression reached all the newsrooms just minutes after the ‘U”s 1-0 defeat against Goiás, one of those goals that come out in Supercampeones”

What happened is in the video: , what generated a violent response from the Brazilian policewhich normally acts in the same way: in 2021 the Boca Juniors players -the Peruvian Zambrano, for example- were attacked with pepper spray.

“One of their players provoked ugly, and there was an exchange of words and the first thing this boy did was erase himself and go inside the stadium, which left the ‘U’ players even angrier.” They say that they even went so far as to point their weapons and all looking that way, none to the other side of them,” said Professor Jorge Fossati as soon as he set foot next to his campus at the Jorge Chávez airport.

“There was an exchange of words and the first thing this boy did was erase himself and go inside the stadium, which made the ‘U’ players even angrier”

Until the closing of this edition, and according to what DT was able to know,:

1. Collect all the videos on the way to the locker room.
2. Send a formal complaint to Conmebol for the aggression suffered by the police against their players.
3. Demand an exemplary sanction for the Estadio da Serrinha, which could range from the suspension of the home team to the closure of the colossus.

Neither Conmebol nor Goiás have officially ruled on what happened on the night of South America. A nod to what we called, still in the 90s, “the old Copa Libertadores”.

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