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Greek authorities have canceled all team sports matches for two weeks after a mass brawl between rival women's volleyball fans left one man dead. Witnesses say about 300 fans fought using clubs, knives and stones.

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    WCFIELDS1 year, 4 months ago

    "They were jumping on our car for five minutes, they were asking for our mobile phones and stabbed our driver," one witness said.

    Sounds more like "Ghetto Youths", as we are instructed to call them. Hasn't so much to do with Sports.

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      NelsonR1 year, 4 months ago

      What did you expect, this is Greece. They still think that Sparta is the prevailing Idiom and governing body. But yet they do party appropriately.

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      agentX1 year, 4 months ago

      There were 300 fans at a Women's Volleyball match? That has to be a world record.

      I think the key point was the fact the fans came to the match because of the fight, not for the sport. That's a shame right there. A damn crying shame. It wasn't even BEACH volleyball!

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        Teech1 year, 4 months ago

        Maybe they should have an event within an event. Buy tickets for the game.....or pay extra for tickets to watch the brawl!

        As soon as those gals start playing topless or bottomless, they will really generate some crowds.

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          Seradene1 year, 4 months ago

          wow one guy dead thats ****** up. u got to find it kinda funny thats its about 300 they just had to put 300 because of the movie.

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            KYRed1 year, 4 months ago

            I spent a year in Greece while I was in the army. Those people are just plain ingnorant. I was in a vehicle behind another car at a red light. I blew the horn and the idiot driver thought the light must be green and drove into the intersection and got hit by cross traffic. Dummies.

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              sotiris-k1 year, 4 months ago

              I am not sure if that makes the driver in front of you an idiot but i'm pretty sure it makes you malicious mf.

              As for Dummies it will be interesting to know that Greeks have some of the highest iq in the world . I have taught physics at Stanford and can tell you for sure that the 17-18 yr old high school kids taking exams for university entrance are scoring better in math,physics,chemistry than 18-19 yr old pre med or engineering students that are already accepted at Stanford.

              That said there are elements of the population that are plain worthless punks and criminals much like in any society that is not heavily policed. The key reason for that is that previous socialist governments there trying to entice the leftists weakened the structure and regulations/laws available to police forces that are so effective here in the US for example in enforcing fear to the average citizen at the sight of police.

              The miserable event is a disgrace for modern Greece but shared by most of Europe.

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              Hellinas1 year, 4 months ago

              The news provided on this event are poor:

              All those guys where hooligans, and they went there JUST AND ONLY to fight each other (remember the film "Fight Club"?). In every European country this is a major problem (remember the Hazel Stadium in Belgium). And those hooligans never entered the voley-arena: The fight happend few miles away, on a meeting-point! In other countries (Britain, Germany, Sweden etc)they arrange meetings even outside city, in fields and forests just to fight! We don't do this in Greece (yet...). I hope that someday the distant planet USA will make contact with the planet Earth. It is amazing how dis-informed are the US citizens! I have to remind you the child (or school) crimes in US. We don't have this in Europe. Answering the friend KYRed I think that he (surelly) have seen much more traffic stupids in US. BUT have he (as an Army-man) any idea how stupid (not mention criminal...) acting have the US army-men around the world when they go to the bars?

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                WCFIELDS1 year, 4 months ago

                "It is amazing how dis-informed are the US citizens!"

                Yes, it is. The internet is helping to inform us however. Our T.V. News is a joke and most all of us know it. Clowns from Ringling Bros. are chosen at random to have their faces scrubbed down in order to read the politically correct "news". Newspapers here are controlled by wealthy developmentally disabled individuals. Sometimes it's almost funny.

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              earthlover1 year, 4 months ago

              that behaviour is true of all armies in all countries hellinos....i agree that it is wrong but you cannot just blame 1 country for that

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                Hellinas1 year, 4 months ago

                Earthlover, I agree with you too!

                Please don't misunderstand me: I don't blame US people, but ONLY US polititians.

                Foreign trups around the world?

                I'll ask you to make some "homework": Open a world-map and locate the countries that have trups or military bases outside their teritory: I did it (but don't trust me... do it yourself) and found only those four:

                USA, UK, FRANCE (very few) and Rusia (very few).

                I exclude the "peace-maker" trups of the U.N. missions even if they are -always- controled from US Gov. Greece have very few trups in this role (engineers: they build infrastructures) in 2 or 3 countries, including Afganistan. Greek people protest strongly against this partitipation but our Gov have to obey to the stronger US Gov (US politians need to show that all the Gov's around the globe stand by them).

                Anyway, this is just history: The strongs make the rules. Now is USA, tommorow will be China.

                Your children will have the same problems with my children.

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                saneman1 year, 4 months ago

                Darn it! Now I will have to change my vacation plans.

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                  Sieben1 year, 4 months ago

                  Nothing new except to be politically correct and not call them what they "REALLY ARE" "THUGS,LOW LIFE TRASH" not only in Greece,but ENGLAND,FRANCE & ITALY

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