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Default 10 Partai Derby Paling Panas Dan Ganas

10 Partai Derby Paling Panas Dan Ganas
05/03/2011

Oleh: Firman Prasetyo

Meski tidak melibatkan klub-klub besar, jangan remehkan rivalitas mereka.

Ahad besok stadion Anfield akan menjadi gelanggang yang menggelar salah satu kontes perseteruan paling Merah, besar, bersejarah dan terkenal di sejarah sepakbola. North West Derby adalah tajuk yang melabeli pertemuan antara sang tuan rumah Liverpool dengan Manchester United.

Derby bukanlah sekedar pertandingan sepakbola. Derby adalah partai yang mempertemukan dua rival bebuyutan dalam skala lokal yang umumnya berada dalam satu kota atau satu wilayah. Derby adalah hari di mana atmosfer stadion sesak oleh kepulan asap, bentangan spanduk raksasa, binar terang nyala flare, dan bising chant yang bergaung sepanjang 90 menit tanpa henti. Derby adalah pergesekan dua perbedaan, mulai dari budaya, agama hingga politik.

Lupakan El Clasico, Derby della Madonina atau Derby d’Italia, berikut ini adalah partai-partai derby di belantara Eropa maupun belahan dunia lain yang tidak banyak disorot media.

Old Firm Derby – Glasgow Celtics vs Glasgow Rangers

Salah satu rivalitas tertua di sepakbola. Agama adalah latar belakang sekaligus bensin yang membakar persaingan di antara mereka. Celtics mayoritas merupakan penganut Katolik dengan garis leluhur dari Irlandia sementara Rangers identik dengan Protestan.

Mengingat latar belakang perseteruan kedua kubu, tindak kekerasan adalah sesuatu yang lazim terjadi saat Old Firm berlangsung. Sebuah grup aktivis di Glasgow melaporkan tingkat hunian di rumah sakit meningkat sembilan kali lipat di pekan ketika Old Firm dipentaskan. Seorang jurnalis yang bernama Franklin Foer memberi laporan lain seputar kejamnya laga ini. Dalam rentang 1996-2003 saja, sebanyak delapan kematian terkait langsung dengan partai Old Firm. Laporan itu juga mencatat ratusan ribu tindak kekerasan lainnya.

East London Derby – West Ham vs Milwall FC

90% dari pembaca yang membaca tulisan ini mungkin sudah menonton film “Green Street Hooligans”. Ya, film itu memang menangkap momen rivalitas antara dua tim yang sama-sama bermarkas di sisi Timur kota London ini, meski Milwall pada akhirnya pindah ke bagian Selatan sungai Thames pada 1910.

Perseteruan ini bermula jauh dari lapangan hijau. Awal mula perselisihan dipercaya berasal dari persaingan antara dua kelompok pekerja galangan kapal yang berada di kedua sisi sungai Thames. Permusuhan meruncing pada 1926 saat pekerja di sisi West Ham mendapat serangan dan Milwall memutuskan untuk acuh dan tetap melanjutkan pekerjaan mereka. “Inter City Firm” yang membela West Ham akan selalu membuat kegaduhan dari tribun Bobby Moore di Upton Park. Teriakan mereka akan dibalas “Bushwackers” dan “The Treatment” dari sisi Milwall. Bukan suatu pemandangan yang aneh kalau lebih banyak polisi dibandingkan dengan pendukung tandang saat keduanya bertemu. Karena kekerasan adalah nama tengah dari East London Derby ini.

Istanbul Derby – Fenerbahce vs Galatasaray

Tolong jangan pernah remehkan intensitas laga ini meski Laut Bosphorus memisahkan kedua kubu. Ya, Fenerbahce berada di sisi Asia sementara Galatasaray menempati bagian Eropa di Turki. Atmosfer partai ini duhai luar biasa. 25.000 kursi di stadion Ali Sami Yen akan menyambut kedatangan sang lawan dengan salamnya yang terkenal, “Selamat datang di neraka”. Itu saja sudah cukup menjadi gambaran betapa berdarahnya partai ini.

Suhu kota Istanbul sudah mulai menghangat seminggu sebelum laga dan akhirnya akan mencapai titik didih di hari pertandingan. Sumbu yang konstan menyalakan udara panas sepanjang 90 menit siapa lagi kalau bukan barisan pendukung garis keras di kedua kubu. Fenerbahce memiliki “Genc-Fenerbahceliler” yang berarti Young Fenerbahce Supporters. Galatasaray diwakili oleh “ultrAslan”. Aslan adalah bahasa Turki yang berarti Singa, yang juga merupakan simbol klub. Satu insiden paling terkenal adalah ketika Graeme Souness menancapkan bendera Galatasaray di atas rumput Sukru Saracoglu pada 1996 silam sehabis timnya memenangkan Piala Turki.

The Superclasico – River Plate vs Boca Juniors

Partai ini tercatat sebagai salah satu momen dalam olahraga yang harus kamu hadiri sebelum mati. Dan suasana saat pertandingan memang hampir selalu bersinggungan dengan El Maut. Bayangkan gempa bumi lokal selama 2 x 45 menit saat sekitar 60.000 pendukung berlompatan secara simultan di tribun stadion. Ritual itu pun sudah memakan korban melalui insiden Puerta 12 yang terjadi di tahun 1968. Ketika itu salah satu bagian dalam stadion ambruk. Sebanyak 150 pendukung cedera dan 71 tercatat meninggal dunia.

Silahkan kesampingkan partai El Clasico di tanah Spanyol karena daratan Argentina memiliki Superclasico, sebuah partai yang membuat laga derby Old Firm di Skotlandia terlihat seperti sebuah pertandingan antar sekolah menengah.

Belgrade Derby – Partizan Belgrade vs Red Star Belgrade

Partai terbesar, terpanas dan terkejam di Liga Serbia mengambil tempat di ibukota. Mengingat standar di liga negara ini tergolong rendah, salah satu faktor penarik adalah perseteruan pendukung kedua kubu. Salah satu insiden terkenal dari laga ini terjadi di tahun 1997 lalu. Saat itu, seorang remaja berusia 17 tahun meninggal dunia setelah terkena lemparan flare. Perkelahian yang meninggalkan korban luka tusukan benda tajam adalah hal yang sudah dipersiapkan sebelum pertandingan.

Derby Paulista – Corinthians vs Palmeiras

Rivalitas tradisional di kota tertua Brazil, Sao Paulo. Salah satu hal yang unik dari derby ini adalah karena pertemuan keduanya bisa menentukan empat gelar juara di empat ajang berbeda. Tidak ada rivalitas klasik lainnya yang menentukan sebegitu banyak gelar juara di dunia seperti pertemuan di Derby Paulista ini. Pendukung tentu saja mengambil bagian penting di laga. Corinthians diwakili oleh legiun “Gavioes da Fiel” dan “Camisa 12”, sementara “Mancha Verde” dan “TUP (Torcida Uniformizada do Palmeiras)” adalah barisan laskar yang membela panji Palmeiras.

Rivalitas ini sudah dikisahkan ulang melalui buku dan film. Salah satu yang paling terkenal adalah adaptasi ulang Romeo dan Juliet versi Corinthians dan Palmeiras dimana kedua klub menggantikan posisi keluarga Montague dan Capulet.

Uruguayan Clasico/El Super Clasico – Nacional vs Penarol


Perseteruan keduanya sudah berlangsung sejak penghujung abad 19. Perseteruan yang memanggungkan dua klub paling sukses di kota Montevideo dan dua tim yang berperan besar dalam memajukan sepakbola Amerika Selatan. Partai ini juga tentu saja dihiasi oleh aksi brutal kedua kubu pendukung garis kerasnya yang dalam bahasa Uruguay dikenal dengan nama “barras bravas”.

Tapi partai ini justru dikenal dengan aksi para pemain yang justru lebih keras dari para pendukung paling garis keras sekalipun. Mau bukti? 14 April 1990. Skor akhir 0-0. Wasit menyebar 22 kartu merah, masing-masing kubu mendapat 11 (9 pemain Nacional dan 2 pemain yang berada di bangku cadangan). 26 November 2000. Skor akhir 1-1. 9 pemain dari kedua kubu harus mendekam selama sebulan di penjara usai laga yang tidak hanya mementaskan sepakbola, tapi juga karate dan tinju.

Athens Derby – Panathinaikos vs Olympiakos

Olympiakos dulu dikenal sebagai klub yang mewakili kaum pekerja ibukota sementara Panathinaikos didukung oleh kelas menengah di Athena. Sekarang kondisi sudah berbalik. Basis massa kedua kubu sudah berimbang baik dari segi finansial maupun kekuatan politik.

Satu yang menarik adalah nama barisan pendukung garis keras dari kedua klub yang tergolong unik. “Gate 7” adalah nama ultras Olympiakos dan Panathinaikos diwakili oleh “Gate 13”.

Seville Derby – Sevilla vs Real Betis

Salah satu derby dengan sejarah kekerasan paling kental di tanah Matador. Real Betis didirikan oleh barisan direktur Sevilla yang membelot pada tahun 1909 silam. Sejak itulah perseteruan kedua klub berlangsung. Tragedi paling terkenal adalah ketika seorang pendukung Betis melempar sesuatu ke arah pelatih Sevilla Juande Ramos yang membuat Ramos terkapar tak sadarkan diri.

Revierderby/Kohlenpott derby – Schalke 04 vs Borussia Dortmund

Laga yang manggung di area Ruhr ini dikenal sebagai derby paling terkenal di tanah Bavaria. Kedua klub lebih banyak menghabiskan waktu mereka di divisi atas Bundesliga dengan Schalke memenangkan satu titel liga lebih banyak dari Dortmund. Itulah salah satu akar masalah yang selalu membakar laga ini, baik di dalam maupun di luar lapangan.

sumber:http://www.supersoccer.co.id/liga-in...nas-dan-ganas/
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Klo ga sala uda ada tritnyah ya..
Klo gah sala lo ya, sempet baca koq gw di forum ini
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hooh ...
kayaknya yaa ...
ntar di search dulu deh ...

btw, nice thread ...
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Klo ga sala uda ada tritnyah ya..
Klo gah sala lo ya, sempet baca koq gw di forum ini
ga ada kok udah ane search dulu sebelum buat thread
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yup yup ...
ketinggalan di rumah lama kayaknya ...
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derby manchester ga ada?
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Oom Asmin ...
mungkin derby Manchester dianggap, bukan paling PANAS dan GANAS ..
apalagi khan melibatkan klub besar ....

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Meski tidak melibatkan klub-klub besar, jangan remehkan rivalitas mereka.
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derby real madrid getafe ataw united city
apa kurang panas yah?? hehehe..
coba ditambah, 25 derby terpanas & terganas
siapa tau salah dua klub LPI bisa masuk
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CELTIC & RANGERS : Old Firm, Old Enmity, New Century

Published on March 10th, 2011 by Mark
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Imagine different circumstances surrounding Manchester United’s defeat at Liverpool last Sunday. Leave aside Jamie Carragher’s nasty tackle on Nani, Nani’s ability to race to the referee before collapsing in an injured heap and the glorious sight, which may stay with me forever, of referee Phil Dowd, arms folded, watching from a distance like a disapproving dinner lady on playground duty at a primary school as players from both sides got their handbags out.

Imagine instead, that United had three players sent off and nine booked. Imagine Nani crossing three-parts of the Anfield pitch to the Liverpool bench to confront Kenny Dalglish et al after the first dismissal. Make Carragher’s tackle a genuine yellow card offence, rather than the red card offence it was and have Sammy Lee pointing an accusing finger at Paul Scholes as the team’s entered the tunnel at half-time.

Then imagine Wayne Rooney, already booked for raking his studs down the back of Dirk Kuyt’s leg with the ball elsewhere, sliding in on Luis Suarez in the last minute and dumping him into some pitch-side photographers before joining two-thirds of his colleagues in buffeting Dowd and attempting to snatch the yellow card from Dowd’s hand. Move on to the final whistle and imagine United’s players are into Dowd again, jostling him and threatening him, with Ryan Giggs sent off for his part. Then imagine Giggs walking half the length of the Anfield pitch, shirt off, ignoring police advice to head straight for the tunnel, before throwing his shirt to the United fans and being bundled away by said constabulary.

Meanwhile, back in the managerial technical area, imagine Dalglish embracing Mike Phelan but recoiling in anger at something Phelan says (with apologies to fans of the perennially mild-mannered Phelan, strong imagination needed here) then snarling in Phelan’s face and gesticulating threateningly. And finally, imagine that Liverpool become the focal point of all subsequent press criticism that doesn’t lump both sides together, while United’s thirteen cards of varying hues and generally appalling conduct on the pitch is largely disregarded.

You have to imagine it because it simply would not happen. However, substitute ‘Celtic’ for ‘Liverpool’ and ‘Rangers’ for ‘Manchester United (as I’m sure you all did long ago) and you have to imagine nothing at all. It is what has happened in the aftermath of Celtic’s recent Scottish Cup victory over Rangers, where there were twelve bookings and three dismissals, disgraceful touchline and dug-out scenes and stupidity of both green and blue hue. Some friends tell me I shouldn’t find it difficult to understand why Rangers provided most if the disgraceful behaviour, both on and off the Parkhead pitch last week, yet Celtic received most of the criticism. Rangers are the Scottish, protestant, ‘establishment’, Celtic the second-class, catholic, underclass. And even in the more homogenised modern football culture, such divisions remain intact.

I’ve never bought all of that. I’ve seen justification in many accusations of Celtic ‘paranoia’ over their treatment in Scottish football. As a kid I knew about the aftermath of Celtic’s 1970 Scottish Cup Final defeat to Aberdeen. The excellent 1987 Celtic club history The Glory and the Dream is littered with perceived injustices being meted out to the club, usually, though not exclusively, in contrast to the treatment afforded Rangers in the same circumstances. That book’s explanation of the events which allegedly conspired against Celtic against Aberdeen was a simple “the referee had a poor match.” And way more often than not, the injustices are perceived, not actual.

I do sometimes wonder, however. My first sight of Hampden Park on the telly begged the question “why is only one end covered?” The answer I got from an old Scottish guy I knew – “because it’s the Rangers end, son” – was the only definite one I ever received. And in the three decades since, I’ve been given no reason to doubt that explanation. For my sins, one of my reactions to last October’s controversy when referee Dougie McDonald gave Celtic a penalty at Dundee United only to change his mind because Dundee United players protested was “I can’t imagine that happening to Rangers.”

And maybe it was paranoia which led to my disbelief a couple of months back at the reporting in the English press of one midweek round of SPL fixtures. Rangers won 2-0 win at Hibernian, with Rangers striker Nikica Jelavic scored both goals and that they were his first after a four-month injury lay-off. Celtic, the SPL leaders, hosted third-placed Hearts, who were on a run which threatened to separate the old firm at the SPL’s summit for the first time. It was the big match, first against third could not have been bigger with second-placed Rangers playing someone else. It was the big story, Hearts genuinely challenging the SPL’s long-derided duopoly. And the match itself was a story, too, as Celtic won 4-0. Had I been asked as part of my journalism training to write a 400-word round-up of the night’s SPL fixtures, I’d have been taken to task for leading with the Rangers game. Yet the press agency report which supplied the English press did just that.

Paranoia? A minor issue? Well, maybe and maybe. Yet clearly Rangers were considered bigger news, despite the context and the SPL table. But I’ve never bought the theory that Rangers and Celtic are “as bad as each other.” As a kid, I knew that Rangers fans had rioted in Barcelona after the 1972 European Cup Winners’ Cup final. But I didn’t understand when my cousin told me Rangers had won. Surrounding Rangers loss in the 2008 Uefa Cup final in Manchester to Zenit St. Petersburg were what my Rangers-supporting mate mischievously referred to as approximately “120 isolated incidents” in Manchester city centre involving Rangers fans. Surrounding Celtic’s loss in the 2003 Uefa Cup final to Porto in Seville were approximately 120 fewer “isolated incidents.”

Yet last week, amid all the ‘even-handed’ ballyhoo surrounding the game, the focus in England was on Celtic manager Neil Lennon’s behaviour in the touchline clashes with Rangers soon-to-be-boss Ally McCoist and the lovable scamp El-Hadji Diouf, rather than Diouf’s and Bougherra’s behaviour on the pitch. The Rangers Supporters Trust has called for an investigation into allegations of racist behaviour by Lennon against Diouf, which must have been made by lip-reading experts among the Rangers armchair support, as the clashes between Lennon and Diouf took place in front of rows of Celtic fans, half the pitch away from the Rangers following at Parkhead. And, lest we forget, the clash also took place half the pitch away from where the game was stopped after the first Rangers dismissal of the night. Oh, and Diouf denies there was anything racist about their clash. By the way. Nonetheless, Strathclyde police are investigating. And doubtless they’ll be as thorough in those investigations as in those concerning the bullets sent through the post to Lennon this year, and the hoax nail bomb in the days after the game. That’s the bullets sent through the post to Lennon and the hoax nail bomb in the days after the game. By the way. I haven’t seen the Rangers Supporters Trust’s take on that, although I’m happy to assume there is one and that it is condemnatory. So what of the fact that Rangers had nine bookings and threeplayers sent-off during the evening? Well… so what?. The behaviour of Diouf and Majid Bougherra (the third player dismissed, Steven Whittaker, was unlucky, his first yellow card unjustified, in my opinion) apparently paled into insignificance alongside Lennon’s callous positioning of his post box in the path of an envelope full of bullets and a hoax nail bomb.

Diouf, apparently, was just being Diouf. And Bougherra apologised to the referee. So that’s all right, then. Time to get to the real question, which is, apparently: “Why are there Catholic schools at all?” This beauty came from the unlikeliest source, Jeremy Paxman on the BBC2 nightly Newsnight programme on March 8th. He chaired a brief end-of-programme discussion on the holding of the “Old firm summit” which was part of the response to last week’s match. With him in the studio were former Scottish first minister Lord McConnell, who had instigated a previous summit, and “writer and comedian” A.L. Kennedy who… er …well, it seemed to be her job to tut disapprovingly at the sheer ridiculousness of it all.

But the longevity and depth of the religious divide in Scotland was the focus of the conversation, especially compared to “other parts of the union”, which meant Liverpool in this context. Paxman was quick to blame “apartheid in education” and Catholic schools, hence his question. McConnell answer was “because they are successful,” a comprehensive debunking of Paxman’s offensive slur, itself the sort of sectarianism he described as “political immaturity” later in the discussion. This view was admirably debunked by Kennedy. But the damage was done. Even worse, though, was the filmed introduction to the discussion, which took great pains to detail the historical context of the Old Firm’s rivalry, leaving no issue unhighlighted, no sectarian attitude unexposed.

Except one. Rangers’ decades-long refusal to field Catholic players, which might, you’d have thought been a key component of that historical context. I know the response this article will receive. Much of it will be accusations of bias (my name hardly hides which side of the divide I come from on this issue). Much of it will be prefixed by “yeah but what about…?” and variants thereof, as I’m reminded of the many times Celtic have been guilty of misbehaviour, violence and singing shi’ite Irish dirges about some bloke from Galway nicking some corn in the 1840s.

But I’m not here to defend any of that. There was no good behaviour at Parkhead last week, with the possible exception of Pat Bonner and Neil McCann in the Sky Sports studio. But there were TWELVE bookings and three red cards. There were disgraceful touchline and dug-out scenes. And there was plain stupidity in both blue and green. It’s just that most of it came from Rangers, while most of the criticism has been directed at Celtic. And that is just plain wrong. 

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