Plan your players' training schedule and perfect each position's tactics to lead you to a title. All transfers are updated for the 2008/2009 season. Choose your club from one of 8 different leagues and more than 200 teams. This is a mirror, a portrait of our nation," he said.Description: The first name in football management simulations on mobiles is back for another season! Real Football Manager 09 features a new, simplified interface and improved artificial intelligence for maximum realism. "Our mentality needs to change because managing football is like managing a country. Kurniawan, the commentator, said in the past violence at soccer matches had failed to bring change, but this time it had to be different. There were dead bodies in the prayer room, 17 bodies as I remember," he said, "Many of my fellow supporters were crying hysterically."įootball hooliganism and violence is not new in Indonesia – data from SOS shows that 86 people have died in soccer-related violence in Indonesia since 1995 – but the severity of this tragedy has shocked the nation. He said he took shelter in a nearby shop as the chaos unfolded, and returned to the stadium later. Home side fans invaded the pitch as the game ended, while the players rushed to the changing rooms, according to video footage.Īwang, a 52-year-old Arema fan, said he left before the final whistle blew. The home side conceded early in the second half, and its 3-2 defeat to the bitter rival on its home turf was the first in 23 years. In the match, Arema went two goals down to Persebaya in the first half but managed to draw level before the break. These are collective mistakes," Akmal said. No tickets were, however, sold to Persebaya fans, police said. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)Īkmal said the match went ahead at night with organisers printing 42,000 tickets for a stadium designed to hold only 38,000. A stampede for the exits has resulted in at least 125, media reports said, with many still injured in hospitals. Police fired tear gas to disperse fans who had invaded the pitch and began fighting when the match ended. A riot and stampede broke out at a football stadium in East Java on Saturday. MALANG, INDONESIA - OCTOBER 03: Shoes and belongings left inside the Kanjuruhan Stadium after the pitch invasion and stampede on Octoin Malang, Indonesia. Most of the deaths were near the stadium's Gate 13, one of those locked, some people said.Īlbertus Wahyu, a commissioner with the national police commission watchdog, said on Tuesday that some exits were locked but it was unclear who had locked them and why. Some spectators said at least three exits at Kanjuruhan Stadium were locked on Saturday night, leading to a crush and stampede. "People panicked and they were suffocated as they struggled to find the exits," he said. Yusuf Kurniawan, a respected commentator on football in Indonesia, said while the tear gas was fired to disperse fans who had invaded the pitch, it floated up to the stands. The use of tear gas, a crowd-control measure prohibited by world soccer governing body FIFA, has come under scrutiny and police have said the decision to do so was one of the issues being investigated. The victims were mostly fans of the local Arema FC team in Malang.Ĭomments from spectators, police and experts who spoke to Reuters as well as video footage indicate the disaster was caused by a confluence of factors – a crowd beyond the capacity of the stadium, angry fans, the firing of tear gas by police and, tragically, some locked exits. The chaos that erupted in the soccer-mad Southeast Asian nation resulted in 125 dead and more than 400 injured, plunging a sleepy town on the main island of Java into shock and mourning.
Fans were screaming and we couldn't breathe," said Habibi.
"I wanted to leave, but suddenly I heard explosions," he said, describing rounds of tear gas fired as Saturday's night-time match ended and fans invaded the field, angered by the home team's loss. It was the closing stages of the match, a soccer derby in Indonesia's East Java province, and 29-year-old spectator Ahmad Nizar Habibi said he had a gut feeling things were about to turn ugly.
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