{"id":87078,"date":"2025-08-22T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87078\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:41:05","slug":"universidad-de-chile-accuse-independiente-after-fan-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87078\/","title":{"rendered":"Universidad de Chile accuse Independiente after fan violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Universidad de Chile have accused opponents Independiente and the Argentine police of failing to protect their supporters from a “brutal and inhuman beating” that hospitalised 19 of their supporters. <\/p>\n

The Copa Sudamericana last-16 match was abandoned on Wednesday<\/a> following violent clashes in the stands in Buenos Aires. <\/p>\n

Violence broke out at half-time when objects including a stun grenade were thrown from the away section on to the bottom tier that contained home supporters.<\/p>\n

The match was abandoned in the second half when home fans entered the away section, attacking the visiting supporters and forcing them to flee. <\/p>\n

Universidad de Chile say 16 of the 19 supporters hospitalised have been discharged, while a fan in life-threatening condition remains in intensive care but has “significantly improved” after having surgery for a skull fracture. <\/p>\n

The Chilean club say the night will be “remembered as one of the most violent chapters in the history of football”.<\/p>\n

They allege that Independiente fans “entered the visiting section unhindered” and performed “extremely violent and inhuman acts, impossible to detail in this statement due to their brutality”. <\/p>\n

Universidad de Chile have also accused Independiente supporters of attempting to enter the away dressing room to attack their players and said the windows of their bus were smashed. <\/p>\n

The club said around 100 of their supporters had been arrested but allege that “not a single attacker” from the home section has been detained. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universidad de Chile have accused opponents Independiente and the Argentine police of failing to protect their supporters from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-87078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}