Hooligans: The psychology of football hooligans
Hooligans or football fans: why are they violent?
By definition, hooligans (ultras, barbravas, etc.) are people who display aggressive behavior during football events. In recent decades, social psychologists and sociologists have been interested in this phenomenon, which reached its peak in the 1980s in Europe, but today it remains at the center of controversy due to frequent confrontations, such as the one that occurred there just a few years ago. . Weeks. Among the extreme followers of Deportivo de La Coruña and Atletico Madrid .
On this occasion, a person lost his life after being thrown into the river after violent fighting. These violent clashes between groups of hooligans have caused countless deaths and tragedies throughout football history. One of the worst such incidents occurred in 1985, at Heysel Stadium (Brussels), where 39 people died during the European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus. Since 2004, the level of violence committed by these groups appears to have decreased slightly, but it has not completely disappeared.
Hooligans: Group Psychology and Consensual Violence
Specialized police units and cooperation between security forces at the international level have made it difficult to organize these…
