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Originally Posted by valo403
Fair enough, violence and incidents at international events have become relatively non-existent compared to a couple decades ago. The imposition of strictly enforced travel bans has been a big step. There's still issues, and Italian fans are certainly involved in them (as well as others), but in general hooliganism has become a minor concern at international events.
Domestically I've never seen anything like what happens in Italy. Having been to matches in England, Italy and Spain I never felt any fear, or witnessed violence, until I set foot at a match in Italy. It was like being in a video of the early 80's violence that people point to when they want to condemn the British, except it was 2006. The ITalian authorities have taken steps, but to be honest I don't think they actually care to fully follow through. Violence at matches in most European nations is incredibly rare, the same can't be said in Italy.
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Yeah the problem in the Italian league is that alot of these teams are in small cities where a lot of the fans are a little more poor and of a lower class.
The games in the Sicilian cities (which boiled over in 2007) can be absolutely terrible in terms of violence and are probably the worst example of violence.
Although the small cities do not explain all the violence as can be seen through the Roma and Lazio "Ultras" whom are probably some of the most violent fans in the world.
Violence in Italy on the domestic level is a huge issue, but surprisingly this rarely seems to spread abroad when Italian teams travel. Most of the issues seem to happen during Derby's.
Hopefully we don't see any violence from any of the teams involved at this years World Cup.