Beaten after the celebration for the victory of the football match, a 15 year old from Vallo della Lucania in hospital

They took him to kicks and punches, thrown to the ground and beaten again. A 15 year old boy from Vallo della Lucania spent a night at emergency room at the San Luca hospital, who was the victim of an attack suffered on Monday afternoon on a football field at the end of a match played in Montecorvino Pugliano in the context of Campania Under 15 Cup Tournament. The match saw the local team and a football team from the Cilento area on the field.

To the triple whistle and with the victory achieved by the Cilento team, everything happened. The young footballers got up from the benches, the Cilentan boys started celebrating, maybe some of them ran away exultation too many and the joy of the winners was not appreciated by the hosts. At a certain point the 15 year old from Vallo della Lucania comes punchedfalls to the ground and the kicks. A brawl breaks out which ends up involving all the kids on the pitch and some adults. We try to restore calm but for a few minutes it’s chaos. A bad show on the pitch where, a few minutes earlier, the two teams had faced each other to win the victory. The attempts of the public present to invite the children and adults on the field to regain their composure were useless.

In testimonials collected by parents at the end of the match, some complained that they had also suffered threats with a chain. A shameful scene that took place in front of the parents of the children present in the audience and who, as soon as the situation degenerated, asked for the intervention of the carabinieri. The military arrived on site, the worst was already over but their presence further calmed things down. An ugly story of violence, yet another one that comes from football fields and features protagonists soccer players little more than teenagers. For them it is sport it should be something else, above all joy and fun. The one who fared the worst on Monday afternoon was the 15-year-old from Vallo della Lucania, who was visited and treated by health workers.San Luca hospital as soon as he arrived in the Cilento center.

For him a facial trauma and several abrasions. On the quadriceps the evident signs of kicks inflicted with cleats from play. The parents are outraged and worried and are considering possible legal action while waiting for the referee’s report. «My son – his father says bitterly – has played with his team on many fields, even more worrying ones, but nothing like this has ever happened serious. Football is not violence. What happened cannot pass as one disagreement between kids».

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