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One of Brazil’s [most / mostly] famous football clubs has won South America’s top club tournament. The Brazilian club Sao Paolo [won / winners] the final of the Copa Sudamericana. However, there are big questions about how they [got / get] their victory. They were [declare / declared] winners after the other team, Tigre from Argentina, refused [to / by] come onto the pitch for the second [half / third] of the game. The players and coaches from the Argentine club said they [afraid / feared] for their lives. Tigre officials said security guards at Sao Paolo’s Morumbi Stadium [beat / won] them and pulled guns on them as they went to the dressing room after the first [quarter / half] . The whole footballing world is now concerned about [safety / safe] and security at the FIFA World Cup in 2014.

Sao Paolo were winning the game two-nil before the referee [called / shouted] the game [off / on] . Sao Paulo president Juvenal Juvencio told the club's website that Tigre were afraid [of / for] losing badly so they started causing trouble in the half-time [break / snap] . He said: "They were going to lose [at / by] a big score. Our biggest victory is the [fact / fiction] that the Argentines ran [away / down] ." Sao Paulo goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni said of Tigre: "They came here to [flight / fight] , not to play." Tigre’s players totally disagreed. They said about 20 police and security staff waited [at / for] them and attacked them. Argentina’s newspapers were full of photographs of a dressing room covered in [bloody / blood] . Tigre coach Nestor Gorosito told Argentine television: “It was crazy.”

 


 
 

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