Sports young people in Utrecht witnessed a violent confrontation between hooligans from Feyenoord and FC Utrecht on Wednesday evening, the report said. General newspaper. The latter group was training in a parking garage when they were ambushed by dark-clothed men wearing black clothes and hoods. The Feyenoord hooligans would have been out for revenge after previous actions, the newspaper writes. Footballers of a nearby amateur association were also quite frightened.
The confrontation would have taken place around 8 p.m. in the parking garage under the canteen of the Utrecht football club UVV and the Sportcity gym. The Utrecht team followed a boxing training there, when they were attacked by the group of Feyenoord fans. There would have been serious blows, in which innocent people also had to pay. “I don’t belong, I don’t belong”, one of those present is said to have shouted while being attacked between the parked cars. It is unknown whether there were any injuries.
Two UVV youth teams would also have witnessed the clash. While they were training, they heard screams from the parking garage echoing over their own sports park. They were unharmed and were taken care of by board members present. Parents would also have reported to the association not much later to provide aftercare, it writes General Newspaper. When the police arrived, the Feyenoord hooligans had already left. Their cars were reportedly located in a nearby neighborhood. The Utrechters were also nowhere to be seen.
“We found a group, most of which we recognized as the hard core of FC Utrecht,” said a police spokesman. “They were training (the gyms were closed due to the corona measures, ed.) with about fifteen people. persons. The group was surprised by a large group of the hard core of Feyenoord. We share the information with the football unit of the Rotterdam police and the National Expertise Center for Football Violence.” The police confirm that no investigation is being conducted, as no report has been made from the group of Utrecht fans.
“I ran there fast. I continued from the Alendorperweg when I suddenly saw the group speeding towards the parking garage,” an eyewitness told the newspaper. General Newspaper. “I heard a lot of screaming. The incident was over in no time, but a number of people who experienced it up close must have been shocked. I understood that it was mainly for them to do the group, because all the cars have been left alone However, children were walking around the sports park, so what’s on your mind?'” UVV chairman Sander van Waveren is also shocked. “You don’t mind something like that. It was a serious incident. We are not used to something like that, of course.”
The Facebook group Football Ultras shared two photos following the incident on Sunday. The photos show a man in a balaclava posing with the ‘loot’. On the floor in front of him are boxing gloves and sportswear. The other photo shows the materials being set on fire. It is not known how large the groups were. In a response under the message, it is stated that the group of Feyenoord hooligans consisted of fifty armed men and that the Utrechters were about twenty. The move is said to have been in retaliation for previous actions.