MADRID: The Turkish Football Federation suspended all league video games on Tuesday after the president of a primary-division soccer membership punched a referee within the face.
MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca was arrested after attacking referee Halil Umut Meler following a 1-1 attract a Super Lig sport in opposition to Caykur Rizespor. Meler fell to the bottom and likewise was kicked in a melee that occurred after followers invaded the pitch when Rizespor scored a final-minute equalizer.
Here is a take a look at different incidents of violence in opposition to referees in soccer and different sports activities all over the world:
Brazil’s sports activities courtroom suspended the president of fourth-division membership Sergipe for 30 days after he got here onto the pitch and punched a referee in a Brazilian Cup match in opposition to prime-flight staff Botafogo in March.
In a Colombian league derby between first-division golf equipment Deportivo Cali and Atletico Nacional in August, a linesman needed to be handled by docs after being hit within the head by an object thrown from the stands.
Last month, an official with Brazilian membership Corinthians tried to interrupt into the VAR room throughout his staff’s 1-0 victory at Gremio in a Brazilian league match after considered one of Corinthians’ gamers was despatched off.
English referee Anthony Taylor and his household needed to be escorted away by safety at an airport in Hungary after outraged Roma followers directed insults at him and threw a chair in his route following this 12 months’s Europa League last.
Roma largely blamed Taylor for its penalty shootout loss to Sevilla, with coach José Mourinho lashing out at him within the put up-match information convention. Mourinho additionally was seen insulting Taylor with a sequence of expletives within the storage of the Puskas Arena in Budapest as his staff ready to depart the stadium.
Several gamers of a ladies’s soccer staff in Congo had been reportedly suspended after they attacked a referee who didn’t award them a penalty kick in a sport in February.
Video footage on-line confirmed the referee attempting to run for canopy because the gamers and different staff members chased after him.
Last month, two youngsters had been arrested in England for alleged misogynistic chants in opposition to a feminine referee within the second-division match between Birmingham City and Sheffield Wednesday.
Reports stated cops took motion through the sport after listening to the 17-12 months-previous youngsters insult the referee.
Spanish referees in May launched a press release calling for the top of violence in opposition to them following incidents in decrease-division video games.
One fan tried to interrupt into the officers’ locker room in a single sport, whereas a bunch of individuals carrying hoods and overlaying their faces made dying threats and punched the automobile utilized by the refereeing crew in one other match.
The incidents got here after a referee in a youth sport was assaulted by a bunch of gamers who waited after he left the stadium to go residence.
The referees stated there have been greater than 100 instances of some sort of assault in opposition to them in Spain.
The tv match official from the Rugby World Cup last this 12 months stepped away from the worldwide sport “for the foreseeable future” after a “torrent of criticism and abuse online.”
English official Tom Foley made a sequence of huge calls within the title match between New Zealand and South Africa in October in Paris.
The referee of the match — Wayne Barnes of England — had introduced his anticipated retirement whereas expressing considerations about abuse he and his household acquired on social media for years.
In one other rugby incident in 2002, a fan ran onto the sector and tried to assault the referee of an enormous take a look at match between South African and New Zealand.
Greece suspended its soccer league in 2018 after the gun-toting proprietor of PAOK Thessaloniki marched onto the sector following a disputed purpose.
Ivan Savvidis walked onto the sector twice accompanied by bodyguards and showing to hold a pistol in a holster round his waist.
PAOK thought it had scored within the ninetieth minute in opposition to AEK Athens, however the referee disallowed the purpose for offside after initially confirming it. The match was deserted.
Swedish referee Anders Frisk retired after receiving dying threats following a Champions League match between Chelsea and Barcelona in 2005, when Chelsea coach José Mourinho accused him of benefitting Barcelona.
A 12 months earlier in Rome, Frisk was bloodied by an object thrown from the stands in one other Champions League match that needed to be known as off.
Another referee from Sweden stated he acquired dying threats after awarding a disputed penalty for Liverpool in opposition to Atletico Madrid within the Champions League in 2008. Martin Hansson stated he needed to contact his cell phone supplier and ask for a secret quantity.
In a qualifying match for the 2008 European Championship between Denmark and Sweden, a drunk Danish fan tried to punch the referee within the last minutes with the rating tied at 3-3. Sweden was awarded a 3-0 win due to the assault.
A weekend soccer participant was sentenced to a minimum of eight years in jail in 2015 within the United States for a punch that killed a referee. Bassel Saad pleaded responsible to involuntary manslaughter, admitting he punched John Bieniewicz as he was making ready to name a penalty that will have ejected Saad. Bieniewicz died two days later.
In 2012, a Dutch man working as a linesman throughout his son’s youth soccer match died after being overwhelmed and kicked by a number of soccer gamers following a sport.
In a non-league competitors in France this 12 months, referee Jérémy Chrestia was headbutted throughout a sport.
In Argentina, Alexander Williams Tapón was discovered lifeless with a gunshot wound to his head days after pictures of him assaulting a referee in an novice match went viral. Police imagine he dedicated suicide. The referee was taken unconscious to a hospital after Tapón punched and kicked his head.
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Associated Press writers Steve Douglas, Mauricio Savarese, Gerald Imray, Samuel Petrequin, Jerome Pugmire, Graham Dunbar, Karl Ritter and Andrew Dampf contributed to this report.
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