Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 at 3:15 pm  |  181 responses

Video: China-Brazil ‘Friendly’ Cut Short by Brawl

We take you to Henan province in China where a ‘friendly’ between China and Brazil’s national teams degenerated into a melee. China was angry over a foul on Zhang Qingpeng which coach Bob Donewald, a former assistant with the Hornets and Cavs, protested via a chain of expletives. Two techs to Donewald later, and players were kicking and punching each other. China’s players wouldn’t let up, attacking the Brazilians on their way to the locker room. Several players were injured, and Brazil quickly decided to drop out of the tournament.

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  • Ronald

    @JTaylor: Yeah, but there’s no difference between being racist and making jokes that is based upon race. Especially for a person that claims everything against “black” athletes as a racist reaction. It’s obvious you don’t know the real difference between discrimination, racism and prejudice. @Jono: My bad on the team, I don’t know why I thought he played for Shanghai. I guess the word thug is a strong word. What I mean is that Yi has been in his share of scuffles/brawls and is definitely not a gentleman per se. Not saying that he’s not a decent guy, which he is. It’s true that he hasn’t been in any scuffles in the NBA. But, that’s because they are rare in the NBA imho. And Team China unfortunately already had the image of getting into fights. They have one recently at the start of the year if I remember correctly. Personally, whilst I do think that they went overboard I have no problem with teams getting into scuffles and fights. Stuff happens, especially when dealing with a bunch of testosterone filled athletes in a volatile environment where their livelihood and careers are somewhat on the line.

  • Ronald

    @Diesel: Whilst, I agree with some of your points. I do think you took an unwarranted shot at Allenp. I’ve read a lot of comments, and it’s obvious that issues related to race are a issues important to him. But, unlike JTaylor, he doesn’t cross the line. (and, when he does he has the decency to admit to it). It’s nearly impossible to deny that if there were black players in that team who are American it would get a lot more bad press. It’s just the way the American press works. I’m in Hong Kong and there’s been barely a blip about the incident despite it obviously being a “national disgrace” but if the tables were turned and the team that was attacked Team Hong Kong or China, I’m sure there would be an outrage and I would be hearing it 24/7.

  • http://slamonline.com Bryan Crawford

    Uhm… WOW at this thread.

  • Etheknickfan

    “BREAKING NEWS” Ron Artest leaves NBA for China.
    Ron states “It’s time for me to play where I can be free to be myself and promote my cds” In other news, Stephon Marbury is on youtube eating chinese vaseline and crying over this whole incident. Allen Iverson is choosing Turkey cause the chinese team dont have tats.”You cant do that stuff without tats man” Jermaine O’Neal Stephon Jackson Jermaine O’Neal Stephon Jackson Jermaine O’Neal Stephon Jackson

  • Jer Dawg

    This video was shocking to me. China has this prestine exterior exhibited during Olympics in 2008. Where everyone is well mannered and respectful of everyone. We all know no ethnicity is perfect and it isn’t fair to judge either. But, like I mentioned, I was shocked by how Team China was not backing down one iota. Never have I seen such barbaric behavior or testicular fortitude from the Chinese. Maybe the government will do something about this. Maybe not. But LOL on comments on Brazilian Jujitsu and how the hoopers don’t know squat how to fight. Chinese and their street fighting? Where’s the martial arts? I saw that one knee to the gut of the Brazilian player. wow!

  • JalepinoSausage

    Look at Crawfish salivating over the thread. Guess whos gonna blog about mass violence in their next article ? he he

  • JalepinoSausage

    I’m sure if you call it ‘ Kill All chineeze’ it should draw a little crowd of suporters. You welcome Brain. :-)

  • javy

    Wow, the Chinese team surely knows how to land some punches, here is a look at the final stats:

    Punches: 2 out of 200
    Kicks: 1 out of 100
    Slaps: 0 out of 3

    I think my sister fights better than them!!
    Just saying!!!!

  • aiiai

    IF the brazilian team did a dirty foul on the chinese player, then i guess its reasonable to get this angry. i know would if my teammate was purposely hit on the back of the neck. it can cause some serious injuries!!!

    But from this video, we can’t really tell if the foul was intentional or not cause it doesn’t show the foul.

  • http://google c_cantrell

    im not tryin to brag or anything but i honestly think i could take the whole chinese team by myself

  • http://cantbelievesomethinglikethiscouldhappen Stefan

    …. wow this is crazy….
    you really have to have bad culture in your country to want to almost kill someone over a dumb foul
    (and the crazy stomping). Fiba should really
    suspend china i think for the next three years
    i also feel bad for brazil after quiting the tournament due to the injuries the brazilians got in this fight.
    all i have to say is that that was really i terrible thing to do and should NEVER be done on a basketball floor.

  • http://cantbelievesomethinglikethiscouldhappen Stefan s

    …. wow this is crazy….
    you really have to have bad culture in your country to want to almost kill someone over a dumb foul
    (and the crazy stomping). Fiba should really
    suspend china i think for the next three years
    i also feel bad for brazil after quiting the tournament due to the injuries the brazilians got in this fight.
    all i have to say is that that was really i terrible thing to do and should NEVER be done on a basketball floor!

  • str8 from samoa

    ONG BUK.

  • http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/hoops-in-view Diesel

    Man I’m not even trying to debate whether or not Thug is a term associated with only black people. I’m trying to find out why it was brought up in THIS story. Is that what we’re doing now? Are we going to talk about race in every story on this site? @Allenp – No, I don’t like being stereotyped. But I am. EVERY SINGLE GROUP IS STEREOTYPED. Not just black people. I’m serbian. I hear people calling us dirty serbs and terrorists all the time. People were ripping on serbs in the other fight video. But I’m not responding to this video by saying “Those Terrorists!” because it has nothing to do with this clip and its just plain old stupid.
    @Jukai and Teddy – I never said Allen got his blog because he’s black or because of affirmative action. I said he got it because Slam didn’t want to look anti-black. Slam is notorious for not taking a position and never commenting on stories involving sex and race. So when these stories involving race & the decision/dan gilbert & runaway slaves get posted and slam staffers like Myles post comments saying race didn’t play a factor, that looks like Slam is taking a position. A position that most black people don’t agree with. In order to counteract that position, I think they brought in Allen. That’s what I was trying to say.

  • http://jayemmbee.blogspot.com Clutch Performer

    this makes the piston pacer brawl look tame
    when this happens in baseball its part of the game
    if this happened in the NBA it would be all over the News bout thugs fighting and how NBA is thugs playing ball or its hip hops influence

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    “you really have to have bad culture in your country to want to almost kill someone over a dumb foul”
    Wow. Comments like THESE almost make me feel ashamed to be a human being (but not quite; this is but one idiot). It’s funny that no one mods these type of ignorant @ss comments.

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    Diesel, you said: “In order to counteract that position, I think they brought in Allen.”
    That’s just another way of saying you still haven’t accepted ANY validity with Allenp’s points. It couldn’t have been that maybe Allenp raised some GOOD POINTS pertaining to the LeBron/race in media debate? It couldn’t have been that maybe it seems logical for this website to present both sides to an issue or argument?
    And Allenp didn’t even get his blog with SLAM because of the LeBron/race incident. He started with his (dope) posts on ’90s basketball players, ranking the players of each position and providing logical arguments with strong writing. He posted at least 3 of those gems before adding his commentary on the LeBron debate.
    Come on Diesel, I have nothing against you personally, and I agree that many other races besides blacks are targeted, but no one is disputing this! Where did you see Allenp refute this, especially after clarifying his points in response to my comment? You don’t have to agree with Allenp, but your overreaching suspicions on why someone black is given a position is both over the top and clearly crossing the line.

  • Scoonz

    When I watched this video for the first time…this song instantly became stuck in my head… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJw5ztH2gw8

  • blackpinoy

    why the hell all of a sudden everyone started talking about RACE!!! such jack asses.. it was a brawl between two teams and lets leave the race behind people.. but the red team is only getting the heat for this because at the part where both team seemed to have calmed down and the white team was about to just leave the gymnasium when the red team started throwing punches again.. THERE!! I USED UNFORM COLOR COZ I DONT WANT TO BE LABELED RACIST> or would that make me one?

  • http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/hoops-in-view Diesel

    Teddy I thought Allen’s first article was the Lebron one. That’s what I was basing my assumptions off of. So I can admitt that I was wrong for saying that. Allen I’m sorry for making inacurate assumptions about how you got your gig. That being said I still don’t know why race got brought up for this clip. That’s been the point I’m trying to make this whole time.

  • Mr. Robinson

    It’s over, Diesel.
    JT21, Diesel..

  • Danny_W_UK

    I’ve known ‘Resevoir Bob’ Donewald for about 15 years. That’s how he rolls. If I was dishing out the punishment? 2 year ban for Team China from all competitions, and friendlies. Plus a 10 year ban for any player seen to initiate any violence.

  • Ryan.T.

    Team Brazil needs to suit up the Nogueira brothers, Wanderlei Silva, Shogun Rua, Anderson Silva, Vitor Belfort, Murilo Bustamante, Jacare Souza, Demian Maia, & Thiago Silva.. I know all of them don’t get along, but I’m sure they’ll come together to whoop some @ss

  • http://sdklff.com Jukai

    Diesel: No, that sounds just as crazy. Allen’s pitch was still the ranking of 90s players, that’s what got him a job here. The letter to Myles was totally separate and was done well after Allen got the gig, but it sure seemed to have angered you

  • Rocca

    Imagine if these were Black ball players fighting like this…It would be a worldwide uproar with all types of stereotypes and slur being thrown around.

  • Mr. Robinson

    HHHEEEYYY. Diesel is jealous of Allenp.
    Its cuz hes BLACK

  • http://nasteedunx.blogspot.com Nasteedunx

    Wu Tang Clan ain’t nothin’ to…

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    I understand some of what you’re saying Diesel–I’m sure some of us do agree that race shouldn’t have been brought up here.

  • ethan

    lets agree that both teams fight like girls. no offense to girls

  • Johnny Martin

    I always had this preconcieved notion that the Chinese were generally a peaceful, rational group of people.

    Turns out they are just as susceptible to mob psychology as the rest of us…

  • http://gps00200@gmail.com Alex

    hello

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