It is very dangerous being a soccer fan. Too many of these brawls break out on a yearly basis and there always seems to be someone seriously injured and in this case someone died.
Earlier this morning, Atlético Madrid and Deportivo la Coruña were set to do battle in Madrid. But before the match kicked off, some 200 or so rival fans decided to stage an actual fight, which resulted in knife wounds, head injuries, and one man suffering a heart attack before getting thrown into a river.
The man who was seriously injured in a fight between ultras ahead of the Atlético-Deportivo match at the Vicente Calderón early on Sunday morning has been pronounced dead, a spokesman for the San Carlos hospital in Madrid has confirmed.
Divers from the Madrid emergency fire services pulled the 40-year-old man from the Manzanares river during the street battle, which also resulted in a number of other injuries.
H/T Screamer