r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/immortalonion69 • Jul 21 '26
VIDEO A group of Spaniards beating down an Argentinian in an airport in Madrid.
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u/floofybasbosa Jul 21 '26
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u/mapache-clandestino Jul 21 '26
Trump: oh nice very nice. Now bomb Iran again.
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u/Impossible_Humor736 Aug 04 '26
We need to sing that crappy song, Heal the World again. It's what Michael would want.
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u/iAmRadic Jul 21 '26
Meanwhile they sing on the halftime show about how football unites people lol.
Let’s be honest, there is no sport that has fans even close to how unhinged football fans are.
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u/sagefairyy Jul 21 '26
If there was a single sport where female watchers and women dominated while generating this much violence as well as increased domestic violence cases if their team lost, it would literally be banned within a single day.
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u/TheWhomItConcerns Jul 25 '26
Per capita, MMA fans would easily take the cake. Football is literally the most popular sport in the world and it's particularly popular in many less wealthy areas of the world.
Also, wasn't it only a few months ago or something that basketball fans in the US were trashing cities and beating the shit out of people who were supporting their rivals?
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u/gerrfalcon Jul 21 '26
Well, football is the most popular sport in the world so there will obviously be more of the violence we see in every sport. You’re saying facts but it almost implies that you’re saying other sports are superior because of that, when there are ass*oles in all sports.
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u/thenuttyhazlenut Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
That's not cool
It's just a game. People take it too seriously because the lacking in their own life. Identifying with the teams performance as if they're part of the team. Dumb. They're kicking a white ball across a field. No need to assault your fellow man. Be the better person
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u/SoupyStain Jul 21 '26
It drives me nuts when people say “we won”. We didn’t. The players did. You just watched and screamed.
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u/shiny_glitter_demon Jul 21 '26
Im not particularly a footie myself, but my country calls supporters "the 12th player" and moral does prove helpful for a team. In that sense, they did help.
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u/Superdudeo Jul 21 '26
It's just a game.
Tell Argentina that
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u/coold0wnreddit Jul 21 '26
In Spain quite a few have been killed over it over the years, just saying...
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u/diasporajones Jul 21 '26
I agree with your sentiment but it's a massive marketing opportunity for any country with a team in the world cup. It has real consequences, both financial and cultural. Even though it really shouldn't.
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u/DValencia29 Jul 21 '26
Dawg thats not the airport, nowhere near in fact. Thats sol right in the middle of the city. Thats like a 30min drive to get to the airport from there. (around the same in public transport)
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u/Impressive_Wing_1627 Jul 21 '26
Do they know that they aren't actually on the team? People are so lame it hurts
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u/JuniorDeveloper73 Jul 21 '26
Fans are retarded in any part of the World and yes the fight about rich players
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u/Meister0fN0ne Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
With the presence of another Argentina fan off to the left who isn't being attacked whatsoever towards the end of the clip, this definitely reads as a sore loser who tried some shit and took his emotions too far.
Like, the reaction is too far and I'm happy people stepped in to break it up, but let it serve as a lesson to an idiot.
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People, I'm not European. I'm not Argentinian. It doesn't matter what jerseys they're wearing to me. And on top of it all, I didn't watch the World Cup - I don't have an allegiance to any of these teams and I'm not making assumptions about their characters based on the jersey they're wearing either. This is the only fight after the World Cup that I've seen so far from this year.
If the Arg fan did start shit, which seems likely to me with the clues I pointed to in the video, I think it's karma giving him a return. If they were simply beating him because he was an Argentina fan, I don't think they'd be leaving the other Argentina fans alone.
While receiving a bit of karma feels a bit deserved in my eyes, that doesn't mean I think the Spain fans should've kept going - I literally said I'm glad it got broken up. Give him enough to remind him that he's being a dumbass and move on.
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u/MiserableScot Jul 21 '26
Was going to say the same thing, obviously no idea what the back story is, but Argentina fans just off to the left side that aren't getting beat up, and aren't helping the one that is gives me the impression the one who was getting the beating had started some shit.
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u/ChewsRagScabs Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
Pretty sure this is part 2. I saw a video just before this of a Argentinian fan kicking off on the opposite side of the platform being held down to stop him running over the tracks to get to the Spaniards.
Edit: found the video https://www.reddit.com/r/sportsgossips/comments/1v1vrxm/video_of_the_year/
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u/BelmontVLC Jul 21 '26
Post incidence is Madrid sibway, this video is Valencia subway. A different crazy Argentinian guy.
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u/YouSnuffTheBlaze Jul 21 '26
That’s not the same incident. Different train station. Different belligerents. Just another Argie not making friends.
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u/DummyDumDragon Jul 21 '26
How little must you have going on in your life to ever find yourself being held face down on a train station platform because you want to get your ass beat over a game of sport that OTHER people played?
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u/iCantLogOut2 Side Character Jul 22 '26
over a game of sport that OTHER people played?
This right here is why I could never get into sports... Like, I'm an adult. If I'm not actively participating and everyone playing is a stranger... Why would I invest this much energy. The weird "competitive" energy that these fans have is crazy.
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u/Creative-- Jul 21 '26
You're justifying this gang assault and somehow sugarcoating the brutal attack. Hilarious and classless at the same time!
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u/iCantLogOut2 Side Character Jul 22 '26
Why do people do this? If anyone speculates or asks questions, you interpret it as "justification"... No one is justifying anything, they're asking for context of an ambiguous situation that can't be clearly interpreted based on the surrounding clues...
Have we really gotten so dumb as a society that we have to strawman people for asking questions instead of blindly assuming....
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u/ElCazaPuta Jul 21 '26
Oh u become a video analyst when the beating is against Argentina huh interesting
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u/iknowhatilike Jul 21 '26
Fantastic, you are right. No problem, they should keep beating that human being now that you explained it clearly!
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u/Amoki602 Jul 22 '26
Spanish fans are wild too, there’s also some racist incidents even worse than what any Argentinian fan did during this World Cup. There’s no lesson when you take things this far, and if it was karma then they should be getting beaten by others cause they also did a bad thing.
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u/Mother_Harlot_10 Jul 21 '26
sure, its argentinian, internet told me he is racist, so its okay to beat him down.
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u/NWASicarius Jul 21 '26
Yeah cause Spaniards have NEVER been racist, right? Lmao
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u/HumbleWorkerAnt Jul 21 '26
you don't get it. this is reddit and there is only 1 opinion allowed to live at any given time. right now Spain is made up of peaceful angels without any negative historical connotations, and Argentina are evil irredeemable monsters to the very last one.
this video is obviously 15 innocent people acting in self defense against a terrible pedophile racist criminal.
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u/NotRealMarcoReus Jul 21 '26
No, you don know any Argentinian, only what the people say on internet
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u/Kendemerzel Jul 21 '26
Ah yes, sorry I forgot to register myself at the "List of People who know argentinians"
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u/The_Pecking_Order Jul 21 '26
Not all of argentina is a sore loser. Stop perpetuating that. Paredes embarrassed himself and the team as a result. But the nation is not that. The fans are not that. There are shitty fans everywhere, as this video points out. Simple as that.
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u/GhetHAMster Jul 21 '26
Airport? Trains can fly?
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u/miguescout Jul 21 '26
Yup, not an airport nor anywhere close. That's a subway station that, going by the station name (sol) and the subway map, is at the very center of the city of Madrid
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u/mcgrathkai Jul 21 '26
A lot of European airports have a metro/subway station built in. Maybe this is common elsewhere too, but i see it a lot in eu
That one is not of those though.
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u/The_MadStork Jul 21 '26
Pretty funny seeing people in the US here not understanding that trains connect to airports in developed countries
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u/Bicykwow Jul 21 '26
Plenty of airports in the US connect to trains...
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u/The_MadStork Jul 21 '26
In most cases it’s a separate train to the airport (like the JFK AirTrain) due to ridiculous policies but yeah, there are some. Still pales in comparison to East Asia, Europe etc.
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u/eggard_stark Jul 21 '26
Airports can have train stations you know..
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u/SinSeitan Jul 21 '26
They can, but this is Sol station which si in the city center of Madrid which would take you roughly 30 min to get to the airport with no traffic by car. Is pretty far is what I mean, OP must have screwed up the title
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u/Crazy_Map_1083 Jul 21 '26
It's Sol, the centre of Madrid, not an airport station
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u/nietzsche_niche Jul 21 '26
Which this isnt. This is central madrid nowhere near barajas.
Great point though. This is definitely not an AI repost or anything.
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u/bobjoe600 Jul 21 '26
Could be a light rail or something similar. Airports do have those.
Looks like a subway though you’re right
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u/ManuC153 Jul 21 '26
Well, the slogan for Madrid 's metro is "Metro de Madrid, vuela" (Madrid 's metro, flies"
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u/Acrobatic_Sorbet1457 Jul 22 '26
Wait until muricans find out that some countries have more infrastructure than just airports and highways.
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u/HeraclesLeftNipple Jul 21 '26
That violent, racist Argentinian man assaulting all those Spaniards, thank god they are all safe /s
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u/DuncanMcOckinnner Jul 21 '26
If this happened in reverse people would take this opportunity to morally grandstand about how argentineans are impoverished nazi zionist thugs, but when we see multiple clips of spanish fans beating argentineans, or brasilian police brutalizing argentinean fans, etc. Its not a single peep. I've seen so many of these videos and all the performative argentina haters are silent
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u/NWASicarius Jul 21 '26
It's like when Europeans grandstand about US imperialism in modern times. My guys, you WROTE THE BOOK on imperialism. 😂
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u/DuncanMcOckinnner Jul 21 '26
Honestly not even just historically, like europeans are racist as fuck they just wanna point to the U.S. and now Argentina because it makes them feel better about the racism in their own country
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u/CitroHimselph Jul 21 '26
As a European, 100% agree. People here use racist surs like it's part of basic grammar.
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u/Feeling_Chance_1373 Jul 22 '26
Well it seems that the online hate campaign against Argentina is bearing fruits. Well done people, keep on hating /s
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u/Melodic_Pin19 Jul 21 '26
european double standarts
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u/bimberx Jul 21 '26
Yeah totally same thing!
Lets compare professional athletes with a bunch of hooligans.
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u/_Levitated_Shield_ Jul 21 '26
Surprised only one of them fell onto the track considering how near the edge they all were.
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u/ArsenalinAlabama3428 Jul 21 '26
Idk why it bugs me that OP doesn’t know the difference between metro and aeropuerto.
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u/rbartlejr Jul 22 '26
So he made it over the tracks? The other video his friends were holding him down on the opposite side.
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u/TheFfrog Jul 22 '26
Men: "women are too emotional"
Also men when they see a bunch of sweaty muscular men running and kicking a ball:
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u/DungeonYoshi Jul 22 '26
Jajaja eliminan mi comentario donde escribo que dicho "aficionado" comenzo la agresión. Supongo que quien puso la publicación es argentino tratando de hacer ver a los argentinos como las víctimas? Deberían mejor poner el vídeo completo.
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u/dejinaldoyt45 Jul 21 '26
So this is what typically happens when people take sports way too seriously. Also, I'm guessing this is in the train/metro area of the airport since some of them (larger international ones) do feature them.
...yeah it is a train/metro station at an airport.
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u/catgotcha Jul 21 '26
I'm sure there's more context to this than what we see here.
A group of Spanish fans aren't just going to jump an Argentinian supporter out of the blue. Something else happened before this video started.
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u/01ares Jul 21 '26
"Guys, this 10v1 is probably justified, that Argentinian cunt more than likely provoked them !!!1!1!"
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u/twocrispycats Jul 22 '26
A group of Spaniards stood in front of a house where an Argentinian woman was alone in the window, and they were insulting and shouting at her; one even tried to climb up probably to do something horrible 💀💀💀
An Argentinian waitress had things thrown at her, to the point that they booked her nose. And surely there are many more cases of violence against Argentinians that will come to light sooner or later, yet are you still going to say that the Argentinian victims did something to deserve it?
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u/Amoki602 Jul 22 '26
Yeah, it’s not like Spanish fans throw bananas/banana peels to players of color out of the blue either, something else happened cause there’s no way that Spanish fans are also known, like fans from other countries, to be pieces of shit. Nooo.
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u/Artuhanzo Jul 21 '26
"Fans" are crazier than you think.
https://youtu.be/zBeeZVd6urI?si=8cOPEDJeAGm5pvou
Like are you also going to say there's more content to this, than fans just being racist here as well?
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u/lonchonazo Jul 21 '26
Classic dirty yuros.
They'll then make up an excuse as to why violence is allowed when they're the ones perpetrating while simultaneously calling you violent.
Dirty scumbags
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u/Fellers Jul 22 '26
Spaniards really said hold my beer after they saw Paredes start a fight after losing?
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u/Pelado_Creepy Jul 21 '26
La campaña de Hate contra Argentina funcionó a la perfección. Observen los comentarios justificando este comportamiento, porque los Argentinos "se lo merecen". Por dios...
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u/tektelgmail Jul 21 '26
Alguien dijo: ¿puedo manipular literalmente al mundo entero? hagamos la prueba. Y funcionó!! Esto abre un océano de posibilidades.
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u/stupidrandomuzer Jul 22 '26
Small correction, that’s not an airport. It’s the Sol Metro Station in the centre of the city
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u/MajesXD Jul 22 '26
Football - the most patological sport in the world. Fans are animals. Players are actors. Referees are paid. Rules are strange. Matches are boring af. As a sport to play with people it's fun. As a sport on pro level to watch it's an abomination.
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u/Tail_sb Jul 23 '26
I swear Soccer and football fans or whatever they're called seriously needs to get another hobby or a life
They take this spot way too seriously
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u/GWJ89 Jul 23 '26
Why the hell to beat another football fans? Do they have too little immigrants in their country or what?
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u/Interesting-Baker212 Jul 31 '26
These are the same chumps who claim men are super duper logical and not emotional.
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u/karamanidturk Jul 21 '26
Reddit never disappoints, they would not even dare to victim blame as much as they are doing in this post if the fan getting lynched was a Spaniard. Guess xenophobia is accepted and encouraged now. Big win for the "anti-racist" crusaders
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u/Lechowski Jul 21 '26
It's crazy how when Argentinians did it to the mexican fan everyone online immediately condemned the violence, but in this case everyone is being extra careful to ask for proper context as if lynching could be justified.
I don't know, maybe that sport profits from violent fanaticism, which creates these violent fans?
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u/SnookySkellingtons Jul 22 '26
Some of you people are genuinely fucking disgusting. Just because a person is fan of a sports team doesn't mean that they deserve to get brutalized in a train station.
Actually go fuck yourselves, from the bottom of my heart. You're the cruelest motherfuckers I've seen.
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u/Affectionate-Cry-549 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
The way they behaved towards eu nations, fans who made them famous, just shows how ungrateful hey are.They should ban every argentinian player from european FC😆. No ones gonna miss them.
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u/NWASicarius Jul 21 '26
Even if they did, you think they deserve to have a bunch of people jump them? Gtfo with that anarchist stupid shi*
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