Guns drawn in the Copa Libertadores, the South American equivalent of the Champions League.
After the match between Atletico Mineiro (Brazil) and Arsenal (Argentina) Argentine players got into a fight with the Brazilian military police. Some players of Arsenal looked suddenly into the barrel of a gun …
After the final whistle of the 5-2 lost duel took some players story to the referee.
Brazilian heavily armed officers intervened, resulting in the necessary pushing and shoving. A little later a number of agents even the gun.
According to a Brazilian police intervention was not disproportionate. “We had the players to tackle.” Brazilian cops have a reputation to intervene quickly to imminent violence.
Incidentally Ronaldinho was the fourth goal of Mineiro.
