World Cup official attempts suicide after Italian victory

**Rodion Romanovich** · 07-11-2006, 13:52

From BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5168890.stm
the man shot himself in the head and is currently in a very critical condition in a hospital. Comments?

edit: changed title to attempts suicide, sorry for the initial mistake

**edyzmedieval** · 07-11-2006, 13:55

Oh my god... We never expected this, did we?
SHOCKING. At least...

At least he was a France supporter.

**Rodion Romanovich** · 07-11-2006, 13:58

Just wondering - has anyone ever committed suicide over a football result before? Well, the articles says the reason was unclear, but the correlation to the result of the finals might be a causality. The WC before the finals was after all a great success apart from 1 game-deciding incorrect ref decision and a few games that saw bad reffing but luckily probably didn't change the result.

**Ser Clegane** · 07-11-2006, 14:08

Fraom what I have heard about it "after the Italian victory" only indicates the timeline and not at all any causality

**Banquo's Ghost** · 07-11-2006, 14:14

Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix

Just wondering - has anyone ever committed suicide over a football result before?

Well, I recall a story (almost certainly apocryphal) about a Liverpool fan - already depressed at the time - who killed himself at half-time in the Champions League Final, when the Reds were 3-0 down to AC Milan and looked like being humiliated.

Of course, they came back to 3-3 and won the cup on penalties after one of the great games of the modern era.

**R'as al Ghul** · 07-11-2006, 14:18

Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix

Just wondering - has anyone ever committed suicide over a football result before?

I can imagine that it happens all the time, only we aren't told.
Do you remember the killings after Columbia was kicked out of a WC?
Must have been early nineties?
One or more players were shot, iirc.

**Dutch_guy** · 07-11-2006, 14:22

Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix

Just wondering - has anyone ever committed suicide over a football result before? Well, the articles says the reason was unclear, but the correlation to the result of the finals might be a causality. The WC before the finals was after all a great success apart from 1 game-deciding incorrect ref decision and a few games that saw bad reffing but luckily probably didn't change the result.

Haven't heard of such a case before, shocking really.

On a side note, what was his role in the WC final match ?

Originally Posted by R'as

Do you remember the killings after Columbia was kicked out of a WC?
Must have been early nineties?
One or more players were shot, iirc

Yeah a defender that made an own goal (against the US ) which made them lose the match (1-0) and caused their elimination, was shot by the drug mafia in Colombia. Apparently they machine gunned him, yelling Goal ! with each shot they fired....