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Fans react after Copa Libertadores final is postponed again following bus attack

EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: PROFANITY USED BY FAN IN SHOTS #5 AND #8 SHOWS: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (NOVEMBER 25, 2018) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1.

VARIOUS OF FANS ARRIVING AT RIVER'S MONUMENTAL STADIUM 2.

FANS BEING SCREENED BY POLICE OUTSIDE STADIUM 3.

VARIOUS OF RIVER FANS ARRIVING AT STADIUM 4.

(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) RIVER FAN, JORGE SAFAR, SAYING: "Actually, I'm a bit disappointed because yesterday we came and today we came back and we could not enjoy the show." 5.

(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) RIVER FAN, MARCOS AGUIRRE, SAYING: "Yesterday I spent five hours in the sun.

I came back.

I asked to leave early from work.

It's a pain.

CONMEBOL is shit!" 6.

(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) RIVER FAN, GABRIEL SERRANO, SAYING: "It shouldn't have been rescheduled yesterday.

They should've said the first time, it was off and not have people waiting for six hours and then today re-open the pitch saying it will be played.

It's crazy.

There are people who have travelled from far away but soccer should be banned over here for a year and that's it.

Everything would be sorted out." (FAN YELLS IN BACKGROUND: 'Motherfucker!') 7.

FANS LEAVING STADIUM 8.

(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED RIVER FAN, SAYING: "Bad, we came and we were here for seven hours yesterday.

We came early today again.

It's all wrong.

I think they (Boca) don't want to play.

You can't say anything else." 9.

VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LEAVING STADIUM STORY: Fans reacted with disappointment after the rescheduled second leg of the Copa Libertadores soccer final between River Plate and Boca Juniors was postponed again on Sunday (November 25), hours before it was due to start, organizers said, after Boca complained the match could not be played under fair conditions.

The decisive leg had been scheduled to be played on Saturday (November 24) but was suspended until Sunday after Boca players were injured when their bus was attacked by River fans outside their Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires.

"We don't want there to be any excuses that conditions were not equal for both teams," said Alejandro Dominguez, the president of the South American soccer confederation CONMEBOL said.

"We want both teams to have time to recover." Earlier in the day, the Boca Juniors club requested the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final be suspended, saying the game could not take place under conditions that were equal for both teams. It was the first time Argentina's two biggest clubs had met for the title.

The crosstown showdown had been billed as the greatest final in the competition's 58-year history.

But Saturday's scheduled final will instead be remembered for the violence that left players bleeding and almost all the windows on one side of the Boca bus shattered.




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