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Football’s Darkest Story | Tales From the Bottle

Qxir | July 31, 2025



Soccer’s worldwide popularity has inevitably led to it being the centre of many events and incidents that have gone down in history; some for all the wrong reasons…

“On 30 June 2013, da Silva was refereeing an amateur football match in Pio XII, Maranhão. He sent off player Josemir Santos Abreu, 31, who refused to leave the field and began a fight with the referee. Abreu threw a punch, which prompted da Silva to draw a knife from his pocket and repeatedly stab Abreu. Abreu died on the way to the hospital. When fans watching the game, including Abreu’s friends and family, found out about his death, they invaded the pitch and stoned the referee, before decapitating him, quartering him, and putting his head on a stake in the pitch. Police chief Valter Costa was quoted as saying “one crime will never justify another”.”

More on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ot%C3%A1vio_Jord%C3%A3o_da_Silva

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  1. @sofieselene

    July 31, 2025 at 10:11 am

    It's a bit disingenuous to claim that a famously violent contact sport does not contribute to acts of violence. The players destroy their bodies and brains in real time – and the consequences of that are often violent too. CTE is well known to cause personality changes and violent out bursts; and the fans are no less prone to violence. Many a riot has broken out as a result of a team's fans either celebrating a victory or protesting a defeat.

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