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“Portillo’s family said he had been attacked before, and Johanna Portillo said she and her sisters begged their father to stop refereeing because of the risk from angry players, but he continued because he loved soccer.”

The killer was seventeen years old.

Margaret Soltan, May 5, 2013 2:45AM
Posted in: sport

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2 Responses to ““Portillo’s family said he had been attacked before, and Johanna Portillo said she and her sisters begged their father to stop refereeing because of the risk from angry players, but he continued because he loved soccer.””

  1. Mr Punch Says:
    May 5th, 2013 at 7:52PM

    This is very sad; but it’s soccer. The fatal flaw of soccer is that because there are so few goals, many, many games are in effect decided by the officiating. And then players and fans are furious. I suspect this is the reason soccer fans get violent when their team loses, not when it wins as Americans do. Otherwise, we’d have to conclude they’re just be bad sports.

  2. Alan Allport Says:
    May 6th, 2013 at 11:11AM

    The fatal flaw of soccer is that because there are so few goals, many, many games are in effect decided by the officiating.

    “The average margin of victory over the 2011 NBA season was 3.1 points. That’s two bad passes and a couple lay-ins over 48 minutes of play.“

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