Quote:(CNN) -- The argument started over a red card.

It escalated when the referee fatally stabbed the player.

It ended when the player's enraged family members stoned the referee to death and dismembered his body.

Even for soccer, where violent outbreaks are all-too-common, what happened last week in a northern Brazil village was extraordinary.

Referee Jordan Silva called a foul during a soccer match. He showed player Josenir Santo Abreu a red card, the highest penalty, which translates into expulsion from the game.

Referees under siege, attacked by violence

Abreu, 30, wasn't going to take it, police said, and confronted the referee, who was 10 years younger.

The altercation grew ugly. Silva pulled a knife, and plunged it into Abreu's chest, Maranhao state police said in a statement.

While the player was rushed to a hospital, members of his family nabbed the referee and tied him up with the help of fans, CNN affiliate Band News reported. And they tortured him.

The player didn't make it to the hospital alive, police said. When the news reached his family back at the soccer field, the mob took retribution on Silva.

They stoned him to death.

And they cut his body into pieces.

Police later identified the suspects, easily.

They could be seen clearly in video images of the gory incident recorded with a cell phone.

source: cnn

so better be friendly in a soccer match to avoid dismemberment of body

Savages. Why did the referee stab him? Just because the player was discontent? There's got to be more to that.

football in the uk is violent as all hell as well but that's more to do with the crowd and the fact that most of them are violent people. it's strange that rugby brings virtually no violence whatsoever and the game pretty much centers around the players battering each other for 80 mins

(09/07/2013 05:29 AM)Kuu Wrote:  

(09/07/2013 01:29 AM)Funky Buddah Wrote:  Savages. Why did the referee stab him? Just because the player was discontent? There's got to be more to that.

If there's anything I know about European Football/Soccer, that's probably all it took

The part that disgusts me is the crowd joined into dismember a body. The ones that joined in should have a body part dismembered as well.

I said that there had to be more than just that. No one in their right mind would stab someone for being disqualified.

All of this violence over Soccer.  Just when I thought people couldn't get any more disappointing.

(09/07/2013 11:27 AM)Vacui Natale Wrote:  All of this violence over Soccer.  Just when I thought people couldn't get any more disappointing.

Something I say often: It's just a game. This is just insane. :/