Emerson Leao FIGHT: Brazil Coach Battles Reporter (VIDEO)

Emerson Leao, coach of Brazilian club Goias, got into a scuffle with a reporter after a 2-2 draw against opposing team Vitoria on Wednesday. After Leao was pushed away from the brawl, three of his players went after the reporter, one of whom got a few punches in.

The renowned coach immediately approached the referee after the final whistle to argue Vitoria's game-tying goal in the 89th minute. Several radio reporters tried to listen in on the conversation and that is when the fight began.

Leao had to be quickly restrained, but his players joined in and one pushed a reporter to the ground.

According to FourFourTwo.com, Leao and Goias striker Rafael Moura were brought to a police station for questioning. Scroll down to see the sequence of events.

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[bromasi]

02:46 PM on 07/23/2010

God I love soccer

[rus257]

07:31 AM on 07/23/2010

Football, basketball, baseball, hockey, nascar, golf, boxing, etc. All games played by men who act like men. We don't have time for a game played by children, or adults who act like children. Curling is more exciting and at least it has rules. Try to find 3 soccer refs who agree what offsides is, You can't.

[ColinZeal2]

09:40 AM on 07/23/2010

I'm not a soccer fan but of course all soccer refs know clearly what an offside is. I guess you are the one that cannot understand it.

[Ty LaRue]

06:06 AM on 07/23/2010

Just like the Wu-Tang, soccer coaches ain't nothing to mess with

[Dnietz]

05:47 AM on 07/23/2010

Sports reporters are the most annoying bunch of people I have ever met. I unfortunately work with them regularly.

They have egos that far outweigh their status and they think they are journalists. Excuse me but sports reporting is not journalism. It doesn't require any intellectual thought.

Just imagine being them. I mean, I love sports and I always have. I played some for fun. I talk about my city's teams regularly. But these guys talk about their sports information all day every day for like 10 hours a day....... EVERY DAY !!!!!!!

That can't be good for your mental health and it can't have a good influence on your view of the world.

[superpeople]

03:30 AM on 07/23/2010

I have such a mixed bag of feelings towards reporters.... On one hand obviously to get a story you need to go to where it is. But then like here we see them become the story.....

[Troff]

05:42 AM on 07/23/2010

Since reporters work for the ones they do everything that happens to a reporter is automatically deemed hundreds of times more important than if it had happened to anyone else. We see this time and time again. It's very silly but seems unavoidable.

That said: what were the players thinking?

[rengmz]

03:10 AM on 07/23/2010

Just "soccer" being "soccer".

[alfo]

01:05 AM on 07/23/2010

pushed to the ground???? that was a clear punch

[clintonius]

12:53 AM on 07/23/2010

Famed? I've never heard of him. Sounds like a Brazilian league manager "famed" domestically.

[Dnietz]

05:50 AM on 07/23/2010

Are you a big soccer fan or are you Brasilian?

Well then there is a good chance you wouldn't know someone that is a career Brasilian soccer professional.

I mean, do you think everyone in the world knows who Tommy Lasorta is? I can tell you that if you go to Europe, almost no one has heard of him (no one).

But he is legitimately famous in the USA.

[clintonius]

09:00 AM on 07/23/2010

I'm an avid soccer fan from the US. Have worked with premiership, serie a, la liga, and bundesliga clubs. I've never heard of this guy. I just think it's misleading for Huffpost to use "famed" when the guy is barely a blip on the radar internationally. In that context I could be "famed" in my home town, but it's misleading in a more general sense.

[lightist]

11:38 PM on 07/22/2010

The difference between kicking a head-sized ball around and kicking heads around is about 6 feet.

[ritual-reality-x]

08:16 PM on 07/23/2010

except the latter requires skill.

[lightist]

08:26 PM on 07/23/2010

Kicking heads requires more skill than soccer?
If that's what you're saying, that's funny.

[Stroodle]

11:14 PM on 07/22/2010

Criminals. All of em

[Stroodle]

11:12 PM on 07/22/2010

Seriously? Riot police on the field at a sporting event. Yeah you know when you're messed when....

[roger37]

10:41 PM on 07/22/2010

That's a lot of agitation for a diving competition.

[Macnos]

02:03 AM on 07/23/2010

Yet another soccer hater who likes to bash a sport he does not understand.

[Dnietz]

05:52 AM on 07/23/2010

They are just jealous that their number 1 sport doesn't even have 1/10th the audience and their favorite sport (MLB) is dying out.

[roger37]

12:02 PM on 07/23/2010

I am married to a Brit, have watched this sport for 35 years, and my bro-in-law owns part of a developmental team in the UK. So don't tell me I don't know the sport. The cheating has gotten to the point that it looks like a children's game with diving and grimacing and other histrionics, and the players make themselves ridiculous.

That's why American kids grow up playing this sport, then move on to a grown-up's sport when they turn about 12.

[Moti]

10:18 PM on 07/22/2010

The Brazilians may play great football but need to look to the English for pointers on how to have a good punch up.

[vinny]

10:50 PM on 07/22/2010

right O, good lads, let's have a jolly good punch up...

lulz

[cookerman45]

10:06 PM on 07/22/2010

his players should have taken the guy out.

[ptrgamb]

07:49 PM on 07/22/2010

I used to think since I spoke Spanish I could understand Portuguese, but besides stuff like "no se" and "porque," about the only thing I pick up here is "empujada," which means "pushed."

[ColinZeal2]

08:14 PM on 07/22/2010

Somehow is so much easier for a Portuguese speaker to understand Spanish than the other way around.

[Dnietz]

05:57 AM on 07/23/2010

That is true. My ex (Brasilian) learned Spanish just by watching some TV. All it was a few day time Spanish soaps and she had it down.

The other way around seems difficult for most people.

But weirdly, I learned Portuguese fairly quickly (I was motivated) but I have had the hardest time with Spanish. I think that may be mostly a dialect issue. If Hispanics here in Texas speak to me very slowly and deliberately, I understand everything. But as soon as they go full speed I get zero.

My plan is to find some "motivation" for my acquisition of the Spanish language.

[ontariogirl]

07:28 PM on 07/24/2010

The sound of a Brazilian speaking Portuguese and a Portuguese speaking Portuguese sounds totally different. I love the Brazilian better but that is just me.

[Swami Salami]

09:04 PM on 07/22/2010

"empurrada" not "empujada"