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The story
On October 13, Montedio Yamagata announced that a dangerous situation caused by excessive crowding occurred before the match against Vegalta Sendai on the 11th, when the team bus arrived. The club said some attendees who tried to display a banner ended up making forceful contact with other attendees, and that intimidating behavior toward people nearby was also confirmed; the club has apologized to everyone who attended. While no injuries have been reported, 5ch saw a wave of comments calling for bans and punishment of those involved, along with criticism of the J.League’s operations and security arrangements.
On the 13th, Montedio Yamagata announced that before the Meiji Yasuda J2 League Matchday 10 match against Vegalta Sendai, held on the 11th at ND Soft Stadium Yamagata, a dangerous situation caused by excessive crowding occurred when the team bus arrived ahead of kickoff.
According to the club, when the bus arrived, some attendees trying to display a banner were seen making forceful contact that swept up other attendees, along with behavior that was excessively intimidating toward people nearby. As of now, there have been no reports of injuries.
The club apologized, saying: “To the customers who were caught up in the contact, and to everyone who came to the stadium, we sincerely apologize for the great anxiety and concern this has caused.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Nobody takes the old media seriously anymore.
"Yaki-buta" (derogatory slang for baseball fans) incidents are fan-on-fan.
Hooligans go after the players.
Hooligans are the ones who need to be stamped out.
Must be really inconvenient for you, huh.
J.League supporters are probably past the point of rehabilitation at this stage, so instead of half-heartedly banning everything,
why not just run it like the Danjiri Festival (a famous festival where injuries, even deaths, are par for the course)?
Might even draw in more fans who come just to watch supporters brawl.
Though it'd probably chase away a lot more families with kids than that.
Supporters like this need to be rooted out completely.
Thought some cap (tripcode) I don't recognize had started a soccer thread, and it's just stuff like this.
There were people actually defending this, which creeped me out — probably Yamagata supporters, knowing them.
Not brawling at all! (pun: "Monde nai yo" plays on "Montedio")
The J.League, famous for its "kids, stay out of the old folks' playground" vibe.
Apparently, before the Meiji Yasuda J2 League Matchday 10 match against Vegalta Sendai held on the 11th at ND Soft Stadium Yamagata, "a very dangerous situation arose due to excessive crowding" when Montedio Yamagata's team bus arrived.
After attendees flagged it, the club looked into what happened at the time and stated: "We confirmed scenes where some customers trying to display a banner when the bus arrived made forceful contact that swept up other customers, as well as behavior that was excessively intimidating toward those nearby."
The video of a kid getting elbowed out of the way during this is in Re: #23.
The four of them should be easy enough to identify, so a lifetime ban seems fair.
It's scary that someone could do this and think there's nothing wrong with it.
Another article clearly stated it was Yamagata's own team bus.
Oh, so it's not even a case of Yamagata supporters going off on Sendai's bus?
That's not interesting in the slightest.
Huh, so it's just the usual scene then.
you should be putting in the effort to get better yourself.
Who's Mishima?
Background and Key Points
Greeting the team bus has become an established part of J.League fan culture, but this incident was triggered by the forceful behavior of a few attendees trying to display a banner. Early reports didn’t specify which team’s bus was involved, and on 5ch that led to a mix-up with both Yamagata and Sendai getting piled on before later information clarified it was Yamagata’s own bus. While no injuries have been reported, footage also circulated showing an attendee with a child being shoved aside without warning, fueling calls for punishment and lifetime bans. Some comments also criticized the J.League’s security arrangements and the chairman’s stated policy of prioritizing “passionate supporters.”
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Soccer] Montedio Yamagata confirms dangerous conduct at team bus arrival before Vegalta Sendai match: “Violence and intimidation are absolutely unacceptable”“.
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