Comments on: The 1964 Lima soccer riot

By: Niet naar Qatar | Niets is geheel waar, en zelfs dat niet.

Niet naar Qatar | Niets is geheel waar, en zelfs dat niet. — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:42:28 +0000

[…] doden. Dat is Heizel (weet u nog meneer Platini?), Accra, Hillsborough, Port Said, Bradford, Ibrox, Lima, Bolton, Kayseri, Kathmandu en Moskou bij elkaar. Nog lang geen 4000. Vierduizend is meer dan de […]

By: Lab 5 | non fictional wrighting

Lab 5 | non fictional wrighting — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:14:19 +0000

[…] that has as many insane people do such stupid things over a game. there have been riots, fights and death that have been caused because a team lost. so the question here is what turns these average people […]

By: Niet naar Qatar | Niets is geheel waar, en zelfs dat niet.

Niet naar Qatar | Niets is geheel waar, en zelfs dat niet. — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 06:15:57 +0000

By: When soccer fans go wild | Today in Sports History 365

When soccer fans go wild | Today in Sports History 365 — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:04:43 +0000

[…] May 24, 1964 a riot broke out at a soccer game in Lima, Peru at Estadio Nacional Stadium leaving over 300 dead and 500 […]

By: Mercedes Gomez

Mercedes Gomez — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:56:15 +0000

I remember it well. I was 12 and we lived two blocks away. We were all on the roof of our house watching the fires and crying. We were so scared and didn’t go out for days. People used to say that they could hear screaming from the spirits of the people who died on that day, trapped in there.

By: Juancho

Juancho — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:43:17 +0000

I remember that in the early 1970s things were pretty hush-hush about that incident, mostly because the government clamped down on news about it and hid the true magnitude of the death toll. We all knew something bad had happened, but no one could point to any reliable information, just rumours and second-hand reports.
For example, when I asked my parents about it, all they could tell me was that “no one really knows what happened” but that my uncle had been a medical student at the time and he reported the hospitals full of dead and wounded, but that that was never reported in the papers.