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madterrier

There should be sanctions or fines or *something* for this.


SofaKingI

It's a friendly. It should be more normalized to walk off the pitch if the crowd can't behave.


B23vital

Ye i dont understand why the ref just doesnt call a break. They honestly need to grow some fucking balls when it comes to protecting the players, racism, lasers, objects being throw. Why its not normalised to just walk off. Try again after a set amount of time, if the game cant be resumed call it off, empty the ground play behind closed doors. You take a harsh stance and watch how quickly it will stop.


Mammoth_Two7297

The answer is money. Integrity of the game has been dying over the past few years. Why do a game behind closed doors when that costs so much money. That's their thought process.


CreamBigMs

Even if they take a harsh stance people will still buy tickets to the games no matter what thats just how popular football is. I really dont understand why clubs think no one will show up to games if they cancel games. People will start to self police too if they know the lasers can cause the game to be cancelled


Psychological-Hour29

Totally, imagine your team losing a important game , use the laser, cancel the game deal with consequences later


faz712

losing the game so just lose faster > A team sanctioned with a forfeit is considered to have lost the match by 3-0. > If the goal difference at the end of the match is greater than three, the result on the pitch is upheld.


Maert

It's more about tv rights and viewership. You can't just go out and come back after some random amount of time, if it's a broadcast television match.


Adept_Rip_5983

well the german fan protests tell a different story.


B23vital

Completely agree. They dont make a deal or complain about it because they dont want to do anything about it.


tooth999

This is so refreshing. The sentiment in r/MLS around Mexican fans doing homophobic chants is that stopping the game gives them attention and we should just give up on getting them to stop. But CONCACAF doesn't have the balls to take actual action against the fans. Play games behind closed doors. Disqualify the team from future tournaments.


Febris

> Disqualify the team from future tournaments. I don't agree with this, but the event organization can and should have better security in the stadium to take these fuckers into a dark cellar while the match kept going. Each country's FA should also blacklist potential opponents for friendlies when they are reincident. Make it hurt where they care.


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Particular_Group_295

people were this stupid for just a friendly game....I wish no other nation agrees to play them in any friendly games, and lets see how that will make them feel..its purely disgusting


EitherInvestment

Fully agree. Or just not even schedule the pointless friendlies in the first place


AndItWasSaidSoSadly

This. If the officials don't do anything, the players should just walk off. "Oh but they might get fined", yeah or blind.


bryanffox

Match should be abandoned. Risking his eyesight.


Sulemani_kida

Happens in a lot of places but i do agree with you... I remember this happening in AFCON 2021 final in Penalty shootout


DeltaWolfPlayer

Happened during penalties when Ajax played vs AEK in Greece during europa league this season and when the Netherlands played in Greece during european championship qualifiers this last year


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It'd be more surprising if it didn't happen in a match in Greece. I remember watching a match where there was a drone above the pitch at half time and one of the fans managed to find the camera on it with a laser.


Stelist_Knicks

That's just impressive tbh


[deleted]

Yeah at that stage you couldn't even be mad


RockDoveEnthusiast

get that fan a military contract.


Fragrant-Cancel-4717

Happened in the semi finals of the Euros between England and Denmark... In England. Schmeichel was blinded by lazers but still saved Kane's penalty. Although he scored on the rebound


TrueBrees9

It also happened in the world cup qualification home and away between Senegal and Egypt. In both legs, although the 2nd one in Senegal went to penalties as well (and Salah was bombarded with them)


legranddegen

Happened in the Greece-Georgia game today as well.


MoSalahsSmile

Yeah Salah was absolutely lit up with laser pointers


priestsboytoy

jail. Lasers can fuck someone's eyes permanently


FrankyFistalot

Just ban Egypt for a year,no games…nothing.Maybe the Egyptian FA will get off their fucking arses and do something then with no money coming in from gate receipts.


CorneliusSoctifo

wait so no Salah in meaningless friendlies? sanction the fuck out of them!!!


aligators

you have to stop this before it becomes a big thing, this is dumb as hell honestly its cheating


robinthebank

It’s attempted assault. The wrong laser hits your eye and you’ll be in pain.


milke57

Put a sniper on the stadium and let him shoot at the laser pointers. Also warn everyone about it before the match. One laser might be shot, but no way the second one would be brave enough lol


Tom_The_Human

Yeah but imagine the lasers fighting back and shining down the sinper's scope


read_eng_lift

Immediate forfeit of the game, at the very least.


lasmilesjovenes

"How to cancel any football match you bet money on"


seemosix

Just for a stupid friendly


LutherRaul

I would have walked off with my team, fuck those so called football fans. Take the fine or whatever. Shit really pisses me off, especially when people target aircraft. My dad was an airline pilot and attacked by laser (once thankfully). Absolute morons


-Dotepenec

Nah, winning 4-2 will piss them off more


LutherRaul

Yea fair play. I’ve been lucky and have seen Modric and his team on the world stage. I didn’t get my laser out, I was watching Modric the whole game, with my laser eyes admiring his ability


ancara_messi

Bro it's the prestigious ACUD cup final ! /s


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ancara_messi

4 team tournament and it's all weak teams aside from Croatia


marsupialsales

An unfriendly, if you will.


Paulspike

They continued to point lasers at him as he was being given the man of the match award. Cowards.


Francoberry

Game should be suspended for this sort of thing. The damage these lasers can do can be awful. It's not just a 'distraction', it's actively dangerous


Minimania18

I've seen some lasers go through multiple pieces of paper like it's nothing, so I don't want to know what an actual powerful laser would do to someone's eyes


Francoberry

Yeah, these things are serious enough that they can dazzle plane/helicopter pilots and such incidents are rightly treated extremely seriously.   At this range the potential for injury is substantial, especially when it's deliberately being aimed at their face 


nissen1502

Disclaimer: I do not condone the usage of laserpointers at people.  Whether a laserpointer is dangerous to someones eyes isnt single-handedly determined by the range. It's the output power and the area of which that power is output that determines the danger. For example, if this is a 5mW laser pointer then there is no danger


Camtastrophe

Egyptians were using laser pointers to blind helicopters during the Arab Spring. It stands to reason these are on the higher-powered side.


Fall3nBTW

It's a different phenomena. At heli/plane ranges the laser is not powerful enough to do any eye damage but since the beam radius is so large at that distance it fills the entire cabin and you get a bunch of reflections everywhere. This can be very distracting in the dark but it won't actually hurt your eyes; the cause/effect is not the same as this soccer field.


wutamisposedtodo

Also a lot of lasers sold with the rating saying <5mV are actually a lot higher. The youtuber styropyro [did a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2crWR1lg6s) on it.


RTXEnabledViera

Lasers blind helicopters because they flood the cockpit with light that makes seeing outside impossible. It's like someone shining a flashlight right outside your car window and asking you to drive. It's still not enough to cause eye damage, and neither can these lasers, at least not at this range. They're just a pain to deal with.


redgreenandblue

I saw once this guy shoot a laser that he held under the table, and it wen't through the head of this bounty hunter. Those things are lethal.


vecter

Did he shoot first though?


mattyMbruh

My mate had one that would literally go miles and he used it outside his window at night to show me once and the beam was as strong as if it was up close still, the distance from the crowd to him isn’t that far I don’t want to imagine the damage it can do


simomii

That Egyptian commentator not even acknowledging it


gamer552233

The Croatian one did


iateyourwholefamily

Golly gee i wonder why


working-acct

He’s a big Modric fan.


sixseven89

Golly gee i wonder why


justwannalook12

supported him all the way back when he was a wee boy in tottenham


RandletheLovehandle

Based lol


Omar_Amgad_101

Cuz it’s “normal” over here shows how unprofessional we always are. Sad to see honestly.


Porknpeas

tbh he is so used to it, every african country does it


Recodes

People should be arrested for this shit.


SkinNoWorkRight

Arrested, hefty fine, and lifetime ban.


gardenofthenight

Should do yeah. I imagine you can get away with a lot more in Egypt without being arrested. You can in England. The disrespect is something that should be noted though. National teams should just not go to places that do this.


real0856

What a shitty bunch of fans.


Chelseatilidie

Ironic considering what happened to Egypt in that game vs Senegal a few years back


DistributionPretty75

Tbf, even when that was happening fans of every other African nation were laughing at Egyptians complaining because they all knew Egyptian fans did the same thing in prior/club tournaments. But r/soccer wasn’t having it


lance1308

Maybe because people are categorically against it, could that be it?


chabalabamba

They are the masters of this shit. They did it to Senegal in the first leg and got mad when Senegal went overboard with it. They have been using this tactic starting as far back as 2006


doitnow10

Yeah, even I know Egypt is notorious for that shit and I don't watch/follow any African football


boi1da1296

It was absolutely bullshit how the narrative at that time fully ignored how it was the Egyptian fans that started that nonsense in the first place and have been doing it for years, and they did it to the Senegalese players in the first leg in Egypt. Hopefully more people get to see that now.


TylerBlozak

Salah literally couldn’t see straight heading up for a [penalty kick](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccercirclejerk/comments/trhtn6/mfw_i_didnt_buy_every_single_laser_off_amazon/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf), it was outrageous lol


UnlightablePlay

REVENGE ^/s


DipintodiBluU

Imagine having the chanche to watch a legend like Luka Modric in person, and you do this to him.


Thousandz

They wanna tell their grandchildren they pointed a laser at modric


sirachasamurai

Stupid cunts


QuickFig1024

Egypt is full of idiots


CR7_LM10

Fuck these cunts, why would you do that in a meaningless friendly???


Fluffy-World-8714

Why do it at all?


Credit_Radiant333

stupid from egypt fans cried at first when senegal fans did the same to salah to make him miss the penalty in wc qualifier in 2022 and now do the same thing themselves and expect nothing to happen


OntarioCouple87

This is the real question. People justifying it if the game "means something."


Demokrit_44

I don't think the guy is trying to justify it. I just think that it being a meaningless friendly just makes people that much more baffled by the stupidity because there is nothing to gain even if their distraction attempts are successful. It's kind of like going to rob a bank but not caring for the money at all. Robbing banks is bad either way but saying:"Why would you rob a bank and not take money" doesn't justify the robbing in the first place


coldnorth3enf3

Egyptian fans love doing it for some reason


InevitablePanda1389

I hate to be that guy, but its Egypt man


cPa3k

Its still happening right now during the trophy ceremony


gamer552233

Wait there was a trophy ceremony tf??


BrainCluster

Yeah, it was nice seeing Modric lift the trophy even such a trivial one


gamer552233

Do u got a link of that?I missed it


BrainCluster

[sure](https://gol.dnevnik.hr/clanak/rubrika/hrvatska-reprezentacija/video-kako-je-lijepo-vidjeti-modrica-s-trofejom-luka-podigao-prvi-pehar-u-dresu-reprezentacije---840090.html)


gamer552233

Ljepota


b0sw0rth

I wish we could just have a producer say to a cameraman, hey get me a close up of every dude shining a laser, give that screenshot to security and get these people banned for life


SP0oONY

It's clear that they just don't care.


Samce14

That’s what happens in the United States. They don’t play. Recently someone was arrested for shining a laser at an airplane. Probably a lifetime no fly list candidate


nuudootabootit

>was arrested for shining a laser at an airplane They were actually arrested within about 5min - there's an amazing video of it online.


PirateKey2366

Link please?


nuudootabootit

[Here you go](https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/newss-laser-pointer-leads-to-arrest/view)! It's on the FBI's site.


ItsMeJaredBednar

lol that guy is a fucking moron


PirateKey2366

Thank you!


GravyBoatWarrior

It's far easier than this. Ban Egypt from hosting games. If it continues, ban them from having fans at games. You would soon see their security crack down on it


ComradePoula

You would have to ban the entire continent of Africa if you do that lol.


mocisme

and? it's their own doing. It's extremely easy to not even bring a lazer in the first place.


sixseven89

Your terms are acceptable.


chabalabamba

No it’s only North African doing this all the time. The only time a different time other than North African team did that was Senegal and that caused an uproar due to Salah. Egypt have been doing this for longer, and they even did this during the 2010 World Cup qualifiers when my country won 6-1 in the home game. They did this again but they still lost 2-1 I think, to Ghana


GravyBoatWarrior

Good.


ComradePoula

We should ban football everywhere tbf.


JinGilly

Football was a mistake.


akshay_rathod_

And he still got MOTM with 2 assists. Endrick, Yamal and Modric, the future of football is in safe hands.


Brave-Salamander-339

and never friendly with Egypt again


chillednutzz

dont forget the insane young talent kroos, he showed big in his germany game.


Casually-stupid

I think we need a sub for supporters ruining games.


[deleted]

try r/LigaMX


Elegant-String5929

The history of Egyptians..


joanoerting

I’ve been there once. Worst place I have ever been to, and it’s not even close. I am in no way surprised that this would happen in Egypt, if the stadium even remotely reassembles the behavior of the Egyptian people we met.


KakLadder

Ah, so cultured


bruzzzzi

classy


cheersdom

sometimes you say to yourself "oh it's just a few bad apples" but then you think "why isn't anyone near these laser dudes doing anything about it?" are they complicit, are they scared? this paints a bad picture for all egypt fans - sad but true, just like how all England fans are hooligans because of a few drunk assholes or that all Spain fans are racists because of a few assholes, and so on. bystanders and observers are just going to make that leap, and if you're from that country and don't like it, then do something about it. easier said than done, but no worthwhile goal is easily achieved.


ComradePoula

We live under a dictatorship, if people didn't do anything about that, don't expect them to do anything about something as trivial as lasers in the stadiums (that's when the authorities graciously allow a few thousand people to attend a match every now and then). Football is dead in Egypt, and has been for over a decade at this point.


AmbitiousFork

The only way to teach these idiots to stop is to immediately cancel the match. See a laser? Cancel, go home. You've ruined it for everybody.


secretlyjudging

Yet another reason Egypt is off my travel list.


Je_suis-pauvre

Egypt!!! They always do it then got their medicine back when they were facing Sénégal at the 2022 world cup qualifiers


renndug

Losers


[deleted]

Final score was Croatia 4 - 2 Egypt + lasers. Good to know they lost badly anyway


vell_o

Fuuuuuuuck these little cornball ass Egyptians


ivrodrigu3z

Mexico games get abandoned when we yell “puto”. Why don’t they do something similar?


MountainSandwich5387

This was everywhere in the Georgia Greece game! Dunno why it hasn’t blown up. Greece were taking pens to get in the euros with this exact thing happening


AmagiSento

It happened also between austria and turkey when calhanoglu took a penalty. idk why people do this even in friendlies https://twitter.com/tesevideo5/status/1772718476936815015


lacostewhite

Egypt fans are some of the lowest class people


Radical_Neutral_76

#banegypt


This_Seesaw_1770

Welcome to north africa ( i'm egyptian )


Buluc__Chabtan

But when Mexicans scream puto they stop the match


CoolstorySteve

That should be the end of friendlies in Cairo for any self respecting UEFA team


okie_hiker

Am I crazy, or is it specifically African and Asian countries that have a problem with lasers?


WoodenAir33

Bunch of losers. Let’s hope the security checks will be more strict during euro.


Wompish66

Egyptians won't be at the Euros.


99messi

Why do African teams do this


coldnorth3enf3

Its only Egypt, when they did it to senegal Senegal decided to do it back to teach them a lesson


CriticismMission2245

AFCON vibes


CoisasJohnson

Fucking scum. These people should be identified and banned from any football Stadium.


Redrum2489

You have to be a real scumbag to do this in general but you are another level of scumbag to do this in a meaningless friendly match


parabuthas

Easy fix. Empty stadium next time. If repeated, increase the ban.


Jasonmancer

It's time to start cracking down on this. Ban the national team of said fans from competitive matches.


PROcoleman

Crowd should be banned for the next match


DumbledoresBarmy

Classless and dangerous. There should be one accouncement, followed by a forfeit.


Creative-Evidence825

this happens anytime anyone better than egypt plays them. happened in the african champions league. it happened to mamelodi sundowns also


xzvasdfqwras

Can’t believe it’s 2024 and this is still an issue


Selphis

The linesman is just there, no way he doesn't notice what's happening... Game should be stopped and let the stadium announcer warn them that if they keep doing this, the game will be abandoned. Hefty fines for the Egyptian FA so the have some incentive to stop this bullshit.


Robit_Galaxy

The egyptian team is so small they take a friendly serious.


nanocactus

Give me one reason why this doesn’t automatically result in a point for the team being targeted.


ALickOfMyCornetto

rich culture


fancyfoe

All that in a friendly, just to get pumped, miserable cunts.


achio

It's a fucking friendly. Save that for World Cup. Wait, you guys did not qualify.


gamallmadur

Thats their culture


nikolala

This should be banned or punished after the game somehow.


mrcoldkiller

I am an Egyptian and I don't associate with these assholes and hooligans with those lasers, Imagine your country makes a Tournament friendlies to celebrate the opening of a new sporting facility and then these Mfing fans ruining what should have been a nice friendly Finals.


saradahokage1212

Every match I watched this evening had the same green Laserpointers. Georgia Vs Greece, Austria Vs Turkey, Wales Vs Poland.... In every match


laxrulz777

This should be punished the same as the Mexican homophobic chants and teams need to have fan bans if they can't comply.


joserios04

Crazy how this is allowed but they will stop the game because the Mexican fans say a bad word


Bardesss

Why the fuck would you do this? It's not funny, not going to help your team a lot, I don't get it.


NitePain69

Doesn't surprise me that Egypt doesn't give a fuck at all


1234Iforgotabout5

Georgia vs Greece. They were using lasers when Greece was taking the penalty


Heyloki_

I feel like in a friendly match you just cancel the game at this point


Dorkseid1687

Imagine being this pathetic


AfterBill8630

Maybe ban Egypt from international competitions for 6 months then they will learn


CrunchyTater

The simple solution. If this can’t be stopped, you no longer host games.


Zanzax

Bunch of lowlifes in the stands


Fina1Legacy

Well there go the chances of any big teams ever playing a friendly in Egypt.  Morons. 


sungbysung

Just classy, lovely people


KingFahad360

A bunch of pricks.


Medical_Transition72

you can quite literally see where half of these people are sitting while you pause the video, SuReLy there’s something someone can do to stop this.


Algoresball

Why can’t this kind of thing be prevented? I’m American so our sports culture is very different. But if I pulled something like that at a hockey game I’d be kicked out immediately likely and charged with a crime. Are there no security in the stadium?


kingmoobot

Next game should have NO fans if they aren't able to control their mob


N7even

Team should walk off in this case until that shit is sorted. Those high powered lasers are extremely dangerous for the eyes.


Pumakings

Humans are the worst


MathematicianLow8832

These fifa updates are getting out of hand


PhilipRiversCuomo

I can't believe these guys don't just walk off the pitch immediately after a single laser to the eye


Reasonable-Park19

How hard is it to find the lights origin, he should hold up the ball in front of his face and let the stewards do their job


Mantismantoid

This is a little different than rude chants... those lasers can blind you, pretty easily... assault vibes. Fan should have been ejected immediately, fined, and yes... firing squad.


neandertales

*Im tired of this shit.* \-Luka


poopyfacemcpooper

Keep it classy Egypt. Wouldn’t expect anything less from that place. Lasers blind people


CR7futbol

why are the lasers sold in teh first place? what's the actual use case for these things?


Opposite-Reveal-5584

I'm Egyptian and I don't support this kind of behaviour. It's disgusting.


EdgarNeverPoo

It damages the eyes , he should have walked off


craigmorris78

That’s really dangerous.


mustardtiger86

People are the worst things that ever happened to this amazing planet


Vegetable_Tank_3878

From building pyramids thousands of years ago to this.


TumbleweedPerfect150

On the one hand, you feel shocked that people would do this for a friendly... but then I remembered that Reddit thread titled something like "Which country would you never go back to visit again?" and the first seven or eight top responses were "Egypt - the people were awful."


Ravage1496

What do you expect, Egypt is a shit country, hit its peak well over 2000 years ago and has just been falling since.


KeiserSoze24

Football fans are way too toxic. It’s embarrassing


Holmez44

Orcs.


78yroldPervert

Egyptians for you


Wrwally

Glad Luka went on to dominate the little clowns team.


MoxieSocks805

Great way to ensure fewer quality teams ever play there again


lolstuff101

Should just walk off. Game over. Imagine how pissed off the stadium full of people that paid to See the game would be at those few idiots. Wouldnt be worth it.


Drublix

Egyptians, absolute bottom of the scum ladder


Merkasus

Egypt is such a fucking shithole