Every rivalry has an origin, a point where both sides can look back and point to as the reason why they absolutely can not stand the other team. Sometimes it boils down to geography. Other times, this can revolve around a single point in time.
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In Week 16 of the 2017 Apertura, videos emerged of brawls between León fans and Xolos fans in the streets near the Estadio Caliente in Tijuana. This was an unwelcome throwback to the bad old days of the barra riot in 2011.
“Honestly, we don’t really like (León) or welcome them here,” Xolos fan Jose Aguilar says.