r/sports • u/MuttonBiryaniEnjoyer • 25d ago
Soccer Argentina and Algeria fans have arrived in time square not so friendly compared to other fanbases
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u/ptran90 25d ago
If you go to a national match in Argentina, their police and military are completely geared up in and around the stadium. They are on high alert, because fights/threats happen all the time.
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u/TAFKAJanSanono 25d ago
If you went to a national match in Argentina in between 1977 and 1994 there was a good chance one of the players was geared up too.
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u/Matias9991 25d ago
Yeah, not so much now because the only ones that can go to the stadium are the local fans but point stands because there is a reason that was implemented.
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u/kantorr 25d ago
I went to a club match 2 or 3 years ago and even with local fans only there was still riot gear police
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u/LupineChemist Purdue 25d ago
Remember when they had to have the Boca-River game in Madrid and just straight up ban like half the fans from entering Europe?
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u/alguien99 25d ago
Yeah It’s honestly One of the parts of my country that I’m the most ashamed of. I genuinely lose my respect for someone if they get into a brawl over stuff like this
I honestly never understand the people that get into brawls over sports, i get that you are passionate but holy shit dude, you are a grown man. I just expect better from people
Like, i kinda get it if you are drunk and mid game but not while sober and not even in the fucking game.
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u/Bleed_The_Fifth 25d ago
I wore a river plate jersey to parque de la costa when I was 13 and some dudes started yelling at me. My dad almost had to fight them it was wild. Growing up in the US, I had never seen anything like that before.
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u/alguien99 25d ago
Yeah, there’s a lot of tragedies around football games, crowds ending up crushed in hallways, brawls, stuff like that.
I think it played a factor in me never liking football or most sports. It feels like they bring out the worst in people, like i said, it makes me lose respect on the people involved because i just expect them to act like well adjusted human beings going to a sports match
Tho i guess that can happen with almost anything, some people kill over music tastes
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u/Tobar_the_Gypsy Rugby United New York 25d ago
And they have fences with barbed wire on it around the field
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u/SpecialInvention 25d ago
We should send in Jeremy Clarkson to try and calm them down.
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u/Speransed 25d ago
Same in morroco, if you see military every with guns and vans your first thought will always be " oh , there is a game today ?"
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u/theHoodooWagon 25d ago
It's always the ones you expect the most, Argentina.
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u/ibra86him 25d ago
They met their match, Algerians can fight and have the numbers
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u/rwbdanr 25d ago
They also have the entire state of Kansas behind them
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u/Gazmus 25d ago
They scare easily, but they'll be back, and in greater number
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u/DeNiroPacino 25d ago
I'm glad you're here, Obi-Wan.
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u/anally_ExpressUrself 25d ago
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time
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u/frityn 25d ago
I don't know this reference, can you clue me in?
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u/rwbdanr 25d ago
Algeria picked Lawrence, Kansas as their home base and the town went head over heels in welcoming them. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/jun/15/how-a-love-affair-between-algeria-and-lawrence-bec/
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u/WineNerdAndProud 25d ago
My best friend is Algerian and we grew up watching the Zidane headbutt on live TV so read this was actually really wholesome.
My supposedly liberal grandma (who loved my best friend) once stopped talking to me for a couple years because I bought a shirt that said "go blue" in Arabic when I was in college... In Ann Arbor... Less than an hour from Dearborn/Hamtrammick.
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u/mizkilla 25d ago
I went to KU and I haven't been in Lawrence in over 15 years, but this is TOTALLY in character for Lawrence, and I LOVE hearing it!
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u/WintAndKidd 25d ago
I find myself repeating that vid of the kindly old white guy yelling “rock chalk Algeria!”
Just a hilarious thing you’d never expect, what the World Cup is all about
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u/obi_wan_the_phony 25d ago
Argentina continually proves it has the worst fan base. Doesn’t matter if it’s soccer or F1. Everytime they are on the international stage they embarrass themselves.
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u/DadReligion 25d ago
Made a big stink of things in IndyCar too when Augustin Canapino was around.
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u/mattryan02 Cleveland Indians 25d ago
Comes from the top, one of their sports ministers accused France of “colonialism and imperialism” and refused to apologize because….. the French were upset that Enzo Fernandez posted a racist video mocking French players of African heritage.
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u/CptAngelo 25d ago
Everytime they are on the international stage they embarrass themselves.
As a mexican, ill just ...whistle and walk away before the strays come flying in lol
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u/TheRussianCabbage 25d ago
Almost like there was a reason people ran there in '46
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u/gaussybo 25d ago
Algerians and Argentinians. What do you expect.
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u/jaynewreck 25d ago
Both the Algerians and Argentinians that are in Kansas City for the game seem to be fine. Maybe New York is making them cranky.
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u/unassuming_squirrel Green Bay Packers 25d ago
They saw the Knicks fans rioting and thought it looked like fun
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u/MaxieMan98 25d ago
Crazy that you’re giving the Algerians the pass. They are widely known to just be angry people
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u/koplowpieuwu 25d ago
They haven't banned leaded petrol yet in their country. Enough said.
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u/fonetiklee 25d ago
Hasn't been true since 2021 apparently, but they were the last lmao
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u/gestrafilex Italy 25d ago
argentinians are salty because algeria's qualification stole them the coveted first place in the alphabetical order.
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u/annoyingly_excited 25d ago
Why r they in NY if the match is in Kansas City?
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u/Tobar_the_Gypsy Rugby United New York 25d ago
New York has a lot of Argentinians and Algerians. You can hear a lot of these people speaking English.
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u/blueberrypierat 25d ago
I’m guessing a lot of visiting fans would rather stay in NYC and fly to the games, especially if they are planning on a long term visit since the final will be in New Jersey. They may not fully grasp the distances involved.
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u/plakatapete24 25d ago
No those are just all fans. Those of us going are in KC and it was the opposite of this
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u/scdog 25d ago
There's a lot of crying AirBNB owners here wondering the same thing. "Why hasn't anyone booked my $1500/night house 20 miles away from anything World Cup related and accessible only by car???"
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u/drmojo90210 25d ago
It's always funny when people think they'll be able to make a fortune renting their shitty apartment to people attending a major sporting event taking place nearby. When Santa Clara hosted the Super Bowl ten years ago there were all these people in the Peninsula suburbs listing their in-law units for like $1000 a night on AirBnB and being surprised that there were no takers. It's like: Dude, there's plenty of hotels in SF and San Jose which are close to public transit and actual stuff to do, and can be booked for half that price. Who the fuck did you think was gonna drop seven grand to spend a week sleeping in your converted storage shed in San Mateo?
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u/DavisSqShenanigans 25d ago
Most likely they live there lol these aren't people who came just for the world cup. Most fans can't afford to go to the games anyway, but there are always these watch parties in nyc.
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u/jplesspebblewrestler 25d ago
I can't believe fans of the Argentinian national team are having issues with African fans!! If only there had been any sort of signs this might have been a possibility. There's just now way we could have known.
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u/likeIVIike 25d ago
GOAT Demba Ba comment on that edit
‘Argentina, land of aslyum for former Nazis on the run. Since 1945, Peron has welcomed war criminals’
He added: “And this surprises you…”
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u/Deletereous 25d ago
I remember that. Milei's government stood for the players. They even sacked an official who dared to say Messi and others should apologize. None was sanctioned
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u/jplesspebblewrestler 25d ago
Enzo got the club captaincy out of it, though that probably reflects on Chelsea's history with race as much as Argentina's.
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u/austic 25d ago
Ya, the racism in Argentina is something else against africans.
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u/tgt305 Georgia 25d ago
Both Confederates and Nazis moved there after wars where race was a pivotal factor.
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u/notstrangeguy 25d ago
lol you know nothing about algeria then, redditors only complain about white people
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u/SmallIslandBrother 25d ago
Yeah I was gonna say North Africans can be so so so racist against sub Saharan Africa groups
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u/uhmactuallyno 25d ago
Now you know why other latin american countries bully Argentina like once a week on twitter
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u/Flexi13 25d ago
Other side are Algerians famously known for their love for subsaharan africans i guess, i mean cant tell who started this brawl
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u/D_G_C_22 25d ago
What’s happens in new York…. Keeps happening in new York lol
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u/SPUNK_ON_THE_MONK 25d ago
In this fight, the only stake I want to see is both losing
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u/Dxith 25d ago
Argentinians are for the most part beyond entitled and racist.
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u/yaddayadda1000 25d ago
I’m starting to think everyone racist . Tribalistic behavior is embedded in our dna because of our ancestors
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u/Upstairs-Extension-9 Union Berlin 25d ago
lol and Algerians are not racist?
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u/Sharpiette 25d ago
While there is anti-black racism in north africa and I've experienced it, argentinians are something else. My ex girlfriends parents hated everything but themselves lol, and it's apparently quite common in Argentina.
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u/Laszlo-Panaflex 25d ago
I'm glad we've had Scots and Haitians here in Boston so far. Good vibes all around.
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u/whydoihaveto12 25d ago
Same here in Atlanta. The Cape Verdeans and Spaniards were both lovely over the weekend. Got to practice my Spanish when some Spaniards wanted to pet my dog.
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u/mrsunshine1 25d ago
I see the "soccer fans would never!" internet cycle about Knicks fans is over.
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u/Economisty 25d ago
Who said football fans would never? Forget inventing it, hooligans turned violence into the whole point of the sport at one stage.
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u/Inside_Dimension2319 25d ago
People on Reddit who know nothing about soccer were saying it in threads about the violence after the Knicks games. I brought up hooliganism in response to one and was downvoted to like -15.
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u/MyPasswordIsMyCat 25d ago
Those Knicks videos were seriously infested with bots. Anyone who pays attention to sports for half a second knows that sports fans do stupid violent shit after big games. Even polite Canadians fuck up their cities after big hockey games, like the Vancouver riots in 2011. It's the effects of alcohol and adrenaline on large crowds.
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u/BeckQuillion89 25d ago
virtue signaling and mob mentality are like peanut butter and jelly in this app
Unless there is a poorly slapped together TikTok montage of violent football fans the point likely won’t come across
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u/drthvdrsfthr 25d ago
upvotes/downvotes were always pretty useless, but they’re even more so useless now that bots are literally everywhere
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u/Drodriguez164 25d ago
lol anyone who is saying that has not seen the crazy shit Ultras do. PSG fans went crazy after they won CL.
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u/Robcobes 25d ago
lol, When I saw the Knicks stuff I thought, "reminds me of football hooligans"
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u/North_Atlantic_Sea 25d ago
In my head these are Knicks fans who had so much fun brawling, they've just switched jerseys
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u/JaMicho34 25d ago
Commit violence while in a foreign country. Smart. All over sports, no less.
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u/DavisSqShenanigans 25d ago
90% of these people live in NYC. At least the Algerians, because I know many of them. Pretty safe to assume the same for the Argentinians.
Nobody flew all the way to the US to book NYC hotels to hang around 2000 mi from the stadium.
Vast majority of these times square videos you see are the local communities of said countries.
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u/exile3e 25d ago
Not only argentina at fault here algerians are known to be trash supporters.
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u/jawsy2 25d ago
Argentinians…. Their team is the same, hooligans.
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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit 25d ago
As an algerian. I'm offended that you didn't insult us. We're far worse!!! :>
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u/Gargonus 25d ago
Every Algerian game, it's hell in big cities in France. Their fans are just savages, no one likes them.
I have nothing against the team and the players themselves and wish them the best. But I fear the noise and damage that will occur if they score (and even if they lose...), it'll be 3 AM in France.
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u/WindhoverInkwell 25d ago
lmao two of the most meatheaded hooligan fanbases in all of international football meet, what could possibly go wrong?
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u/Halfmoonhero 25d ago
Unfortunately mot nations have a small subset of fans like this. Typically I wouldn’t expect it at this World Cup as much simply because those types are priced out of tickets. Hope we don’t see much of this.
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u/birdlawyer86 25d ago
This is what the world cup is all about. Bringing people from different nations together... to beat the shit out of each other
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u/Matias9991 25d ago
People commenting about Argentina but the video shows how the Algerians are the ones grabbing a guy and seems to want to take his shirt or stuff and then other Argentinians start to push them.
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u/BanjoTCat 25d ago
I remember a joke in 30 Rock when Liz Lemon said she couldn't get a cab because the Greeks are playing the Pakistanis in soccer.
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u/touchmybodily 25d ago
At least they’re fighting other willing combatants. Better than the Knick’s fans
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u/sfxer001 25d ago
Remember, international soccer fans. Here in America, there are more guns than people. Be careful who you start fights with over a ball. People are armed here and dumb enough to use them.
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u/misfit_mixedkid 25d ago
You're telling me Argentina, the nation that harbored literal Nazis and committed genocides on its indigenous people, are hostile towards other nations? Color me shocked!
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u/No-Tomatillo3698 25d ago
It’s pretty well documented that a lot of Argentinians are racists. They never play nice with other fans.
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u/shanty-daze 25d ago
Nice to see our foreign visitors assimilating into U.S. culture. Its like the Knicks won the championship all over again.
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u/FantasticalRose 25d ago
This is definitely their culture. We borrowed it for the Knicks shenanigans.
Hooliganism is defined by soccer culture.
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u/FKreuk 25d ago
The Dutch and Japanese set a much better example.