Guatemalan soccer official killed after threats

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: AP

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The vice president of a last-place soccer team in Guatemala has been shot to death after receiving threats about the club's poor play.

National Civil Police spokesman Donald Gonzalez said Saturday no suspects have been detained in the killing of Carlos Noe Gomez. Gonzalez said the club executive was killed late Friday as he left a team meeting in the northern province of Huehuetenango.



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edit: fixed link

[rabs]

1. This unfortunate incident reminded me of this famous quote

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."

Bill Shankly
English soccer manager (Liverpool).

[Octafish]

2. Before PB/SUCCESS, Guatemala was a democracy with laws...

...United Fruit Company, the Dulles brothers and their cronies changed all that.