A kill juveniles kicking a linesman

It seems unbelievable but unfortunately true. On Monday, in Amsterdam, a linesman has died after being assaulted by several young players. The incident occurred on Sunday after the meeting that disputed the Buitenboys B3 and Nieuw Sloten, when the visiting team's players began to beat Richard Nieuwenhuizen, a linesman for 41 years.

According to the Dutch press the match was interrupted on several occasions by some violent episodes, but witnesses say the party there was no particularly controversial refereeing decision. However, at the end of the match, a group of football players surrounded the linesman Sloten and began to beat him, which handed him a hard kick to the head and several in the abdomen.

The linesman was able to escape and leave the premises of the local club on their own feet, but soon felt ill and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died a day later. Police have arrested three youths, aged between 15 and 16 years, as alleged responsible for the death of Nieuwenhuizen. If the matter was no longer tragic enough alone, has made public that Nieuwenhuizen's own son was one of the players of the home team, the Buitenboys B3, who played the game.

Without wishing to go into great psycho-sociological disquisitions, an aberration not think this particular event connected with the little respect we have, in general, to the work of the referee teams. Because the worst is the big elite soccer stadiums, where huge amounts of fans unite their voices in unison to call Motherfucker an arbitrator-luckily already behind other niceties of the type of black Today you, tomorrow your family -. No. The worst side of football we can see in any modest football field away from the television cameras and the big economic risks.

Surely none of us would cost very little to tell the typical scene that anyone can be in a small modest football field. There the referees do not hear a song emerged from a mass general collective and report. Football fields amateur people who are insulting, threatening them, they face name. And there's never a police group perfectly prepared to protect their physical and, if present, are of little help in many cases.

I think there is not a single referee who has refereed at lower levels do not have a sad story to tell, on a day that had to go by foot to a field, or enclosed in the typical small wardrobe until the arrival of the police. And all this, of course, not forgetting that we are talking about teams that, in most cases, are formed by minors. Perhaps the real news is that tragedies like this do not happen more often.