For interested observers, riots in Buenos Aires due to River's demotion. Complete chaos right now. News coverage: http://www.justin.tv/sebaz_4#/w/1390212864 I have to wonder if MLS can steal a few of these guys...the scenes down there are just completely insane. Guille used to talk about how it was wonderful to play in the US due to the stability here...scenes like this make his point.
I looked at the standings and didn't see them in last place, how does that league work? Passion is great but when people get hurt we have to realize it's just a game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Primera_División#Relegation Relegation is based on an averaging system.[2] At the end of each season, the two teams with the worst three-year averages are relegated, and the best two teams in the Primera B Nacional are promoted. The teams placed 17th and 18th in the average table play in a promotion/relegation playoff against the 4th and 3rd placed Primera B Nacional teams, respectively, in a two-tie decided on aggregate goals. Thus, the number of teams promoted each year varies between two and four. Newly-promoted teams only average the seasons since their last promotion.
Todos Noticias has confirmed one dead, at least 55 injured and the central museum of the club has been smashed, other reports of journalists attacked as well.. Crazy
He was referring to Monaco, whom averaged around 6k this year in a stadium the size of PPL Park (18.5k). Or look at it this way. They averaged half the fans that Colorado does in a stadium that seats the same number of people. So they have half the fans this year of a team that people consistently bitch about having terrible attendance that plays in the "burbs".
I was thinking the same thing. This is the dark downside of relegation and not just for soccer. I mean it's not hard to imagine the same thing happening in say New York if the Yankees were ever relegated to a theoretical second division. Can't imagine it happening on that scale in say MLS, but the potential is always there with certain clubs.
If you saw the riots in Vancouver after losing the Stanley Cup, imagine what it could be if the Whitecaps would be relegated out of MLS
I doubt it would be one quarter as bad if at all. It's Canada after all. Hockey is king. Soccer is a very distant second or third.