Several people also have been injured in the violence, which broke out inside and near the National Stadium in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa before a scheduled match between fans of rival soccer clubs Olimpia and Motagua
The violence broke out inside and near the city's National Stadium ahead of a scheduled match between the Olimpia and Motagua clubs. The violence is believed to have started when Olimpia supporters attacked the Motagua team bus with stones and sticks."Bottles, stones were thrown at us and the players threw themselves on the floor screaming," Diego Vásquez, Motagua coach, told Honduran media.
📍 La barra Ulta Fiel, atacó el bus de nuestro equipo cuando iba en camino al estadio nacional y varios de nuestros jugadores fueron herido por los vidrios, esto tiene que ser sancionado duramente por más autoridades correspondientes pic.twitter.com/22feX003CG — Fútbol Club Motagua August 18, 2019 The National Football League of Honduras subsequently canceled the game, which 20,000 fans had been expected to attend. "This has to be severely sanctioned by the corresponding authorities," Motagua club wrote on Twitter."Reprehensible and lamentable," it added in another.
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