 "Next-level bad sportsmanship: Angry at red card, footballer shoots referee in Argentina")
Buenos Aires: An amateur footballer enraged by getting a red card in Argentina fetched a gun and fatally shot the referee on the pitch, police said Tuesday. [caption id=“attachment_2629688” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Representational image. Reuters[/caption] Cesar Flores, 48, was refereeing a match between local youth teams in the central city of Cordoba when he sent off the player for a foul. The youth took a revolver from among his belongings, went back on the pitch and shot Flores several times, a police source told AFP. The referee died later in hospital, the source said. The killer fled and was being hunted by police. AFP
An amateur footballer enraged by getting a red card in Argentina fetched a gun and fatally shot the referee on the pitch
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