‘Acquired the ball, ref!’ Followers joke on-line after seeing violent foul in Argentinian lower-division sport (VIDEO)

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Twitter is a good place to search out the bizarre within the sport of sport, and it served up a traditional piece of on-field soccer carnage, courtesy of CBS reporter Roger Gonzalez’s tweet of a lower-league sport in Argentina.

Gonzalez shared a video through his Twitter account displaying the wild scenes that adopted a reckless and violent foul throughout an Argentinian lower-division match.

The offending problem – a possible leg-breaker – noticed a participant come flying into the display as he lunged, studs-up and linked arduous on the participant in possession.

The fouled participant went to floor instantly, as gamers from his workforce instantly went after the opposition participant who delivered the foul, and the confrontation sparked a full on-pitch brawl between the 2 groups.

The foul itself sparked loads of amused chatter on social media.

“Acquired the ball, ref,” joked one. One other quipped: “Large overreaction… clearly acquired the ball,” whereas a 3rd provided: “Made a little bit of a meal of that, barely touched him.”

English soccer journalist David McDonnell joined within the enjoyable and adopted the phrase typically utilized by managers trying to defend their gamers after a very violent on-pitch episode, saying: “…he isn’t that sort of participant.”

And one other observer recommended the violent scenes most likely aren’t that unusual in lower-league South American soccer.