Another Riot in South American Football, Corner Flag Used as a Weapon

While English football finds itself troubled by loud-mouthed managers and footballers who verbally abuse match officials, South American football confrontations continue to be of a far more physical nature. Yet another riot broke out over the weekend—this time in Bolivia.

Domestic champions Club Aurora played host to Wilsterman in a local derby, and the match descended into chaos after a skirmish mushroomed into a full scale brawl, with the match officials handling the circumstances particularly badly.

For an unknown reason in the second half, tempers between the two sides flared up, with the players pushing and shoving each other as the game began to unravel.

Attempting to restore order, the match officials appeared to react extremely slowly to the incident, waiting several minutes to diffuse the situation by sending off a few of the perpetrators involved in the melee.

But that's when the trouble really kicked off.

Aurora’s Edson Zenteno refused to accept his marching orders, resulting in a team of riot police being called upon to forcibly remove the player from the proceedings.

Predictably, Zenteno stepped up his actions and the riot police equalled his intensity in efforts to escort the player off the pitch. 

Zenteno's teammates came to his aid, with violence breaking out.

Cue the flying karate kicks from the footballers, countered by the baton-wielding police, and peaking with sub-keeper Silvio Dulcich attacking the police with the corner flag.

See how the brawl developed here.

(Credit to The Spoiler)