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Originally Posted by bizaro86
We went to a football game in Brazil, and were asked when we bought the tickets which team we were supporting. I said, "I dunno, home team, I guess" since we were just going for the spectacle/experience.
And it was a spectacle. The home fans were all in one section, yelling, singing, passing banners, etc. Then there was a giant fence, and two empty sections of seats with nobody in them except armed guards, and then another giant fence, and then the section of the stadium where the visiting teams fans were.
I would suggest Philly has nothing on that. The concierge at the hotel and the cab driver both strongly suggested we leave early, so we did. Although the thoroughness of the pat down on the way in suggests to me you'd have to be very, very motivated to get a weapon into the stadium.
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I went to a soccer game in Quito Ecuador at a stadium named after the Inca King Atahualpa.
The fans of the visiting team were separated from the home fans by barb wire fences. That did not stop them from throwing garbage and rotten produce at each other. The field was far from the stands so projectiles could not reach the pitch. The refs came out of covered tunnels, far from the fans.
The game was between Nacional (Quito) and Barcelona. I was excited to think I'd being seeing the famous Barcelona side from Spain in a friendly. Turns out, Barcelona was just the name of Quito's rival team from Guayaquil.