When you get football matches between junior teams, by which we mean, teen players, things sometimes get a bit violent… like a finger bitten off.

Normally, it’s the parents laying into each other or hunting down the linesmen and referee for being “blind.”

Anyway, this took place at the Vivar Téllez football ground in Vélez-Málaga on Sunday the 12th of this month. The opposing teams were C.F. Juventud Veleño La Cantera and Unión Deportiva Algarrobo both belonging to the Juvenil Andaluza category.

The home team was winning when the second half was about to conclude but the visiting team scored a draw goal, so the Ref decided on seven minutes of extra time. During the extra time, things became heated after a questionable throw in but it was at minutes 96 when the home team scored another goal putting the final score at 3-2.

This is when the smelly stuff hit the fan in several places on the pitch at the same time, as well as in the stands where the parents were.

The trainers from both teams tried to intervene in the fights on the pitch. At one point three local players were laying into a player from the visiting team.

The lad getting the worst of it closed his mouth, as a reflex, after getting thumped in the face. Unfortunately, it trapped one of the fingers on the offending fist, severing the finger at the knuckle.

Now, we’re not talking about 12-year olds but late teens, with the one with the missing finger being aged 18 and the one with the embattled face, 17. Unfortunately, the ‘divorced finger’ couldn’t be stitched back on, despite it being found on the floor, rather than in the other player’s stomach.

Well, denuncias went flying from both sides, as well as the Federación Malagueña de Fútbol having provisionally suspended three players from the home team and four from the visiting team, withdrawing their federation status.

(News: Velez-Malaga, Axarquia, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia)

Keywords: Football, Violence on the Pitch, Finger Bitten Off, Junior League,

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