El Futbol

Something I really wanted to do in South America was to go to a football match.  It always looks so crazy on TV.  I can confirm that this is so!  I'd looked online to see about matches, but Mendoza's A league team had an away game.  When walking through the park  in the afternoon though, I saw lots and lots of police officers around a stadium.  Chatting to them found that Mendoza also had a B league team - Independiente de Rivadavia (or something), who were that night playing Huracon, from Buenos Aires. 

Later that evening, after buying tickets from people sat in something like a blue letter box (for security) and undergoing a very strict search, we got into the stadium just as the game kicked off.



 ...Lots of police

 The Home Fans

    

The Away end

 (Buenos Aires is a LONG way away)

 

You can see from the pictures that it looks pretty crazy.  The end with all the flags only stopped singing and clapping for about 60 seconds in the whole match, and that was to try and hear the away fans.  There were loads of drummers, and lots of different songs, though not many i could translate! 

 In terms of standard, I'd back Leicester to beat either of these two  well done the foxes at Stamfprd Bridge too, I saw the two goals on TV earlier

About 70 minutes into the game, when it got dark, the fans were obviously a little unsettled at the lack of goals and this happened for about five minutes, stopping play (See video).


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The game finished 0-0, not a classic, but a great evening out! Independiente pretty much did everything but score though, they had so much possession, hit the underside of the bar etc...  Shooting practice at training!