By: EFE Updated 09 Mar 2022, 19: 33 pm EST
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stated that the owners of the country’s soccer teams must act with more “responsibility” to avoid disturbances in the stadiums and asked that fans and commentators be consulted to guarantee security in the venues.
“I feel that everyone should act more responsibly. There are team owners who are concerned about what happened in Querétaro” , said the president during his press conference. morning press from the National Palace.
The president thus established its position on the resolution of the Mexican Football Federation after the disturbances that occurred on March 5 at the Corregidora stadium in Querétaro, where fans of the Gallos Blancos de Querétaro and del Atlas faced each other in a brawl in which they were injured at least 26 people injured, several of them seriously.
After the events, the Mexican Football Federation announced on Tuesday that for one year Querétaro will play its home games behind closed doors and will pay a fine of one and a half million pesos, some 75.000 Dollars, for acts of violence.
Punishments to Querétaro:
Stadium banned for 1 year
The team will play 1 year behind closed doors from local to assigned venue
Fine of 1.5 million pesos
Bars without going to local games for 3 years and 1 year to visitors
Franchise returns to Grupo Caliente
Disaffiliated Board of Directors and suspended 5 years— José Ramón Fernández (@joserra_espn) March 8,
The club owners assembly also decided to remove the affiliation to the board of directors of Querétaro, which lost the match against Atlas by 0-3.
“Hopefully, and this is well attended to, the citizens, the fans, the commentators are consulted s of the sport of soccer (…) that the protagonists, those who have to do with soccer, be heard, to everyone, of course, to those who attend the stadiums, to the people who go with their families, and from there they resolve, “he said. the Mexican president.
López Obrador urged the teams to resolve security in the venues and it is not only a question of the leadership “that always protects personal interests”.
In the last few hours ten people were arrested in Querétaro for their alleged participation
The Querétaro Prosecutor’s Office 🇲🇽 announced the first 10 detained for their possible relationship with the acts of violence in Querétaro-Atlas. They are accused of participation in attempted murder, violence in sporting events and advocacy of crime. pic.twitter.com/zzTOhflZLb— VarskySports (@VarskySports) March 8,
According to the prosecution, they must answer for possible crimes of attempted murder, in addition to violence in shows sports and defense of crime.
The president of the Mx League, Mikel Arriola, pointed out that Anyone who is found guilty of having participated in the acts of violence will be banned for life from attending a Mexican soccer stadium.