Portugal: Fans interrupt Sporting practice, assault players
LISBON, Portugal — Portuguese football was rocked on Tuesday when a large group of fans forced their way into Sporting Lisbon’s training centre and assaulted its players and staff.
Public television RTP reported that around 50 intruders, who had covered their faces to not be identified, interrupted practice at Sporting’s training centre in Alcochete, about 20 kilometres south of Lisbon.
RTP showed images of bloody wounds to the head of Sporting’s Dutch striker Bas Dost and of a changing room that had been trashed.
Police detained 21 suspects in the hours following the incident, according to assistant Secretary of State for the Interior Isabel Oneto.