Battle of Glasbridž

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Battle of Glasbridž
Date 3–4 August 2018
Location Glasbridž, Kingdom of Coria, Krasnocoria
Belligerents
Naldas
Zeleni
Marauders
The Red Army
Police
Armed Forces
Strength
~60,000

~40,000

~40,000

~20,000

~4,000
Casualties and losses
TBC TBC

The Battle of Glasbridž was a hooligan street fight that took place between the ultras and hooligan groups of four national football teams following a Copa Apollonia fixture between the national teams of Gerenia and Senya. Fighting soon encompassed the Krasnocorian police, army and the hooligan groups of Coria and the Florian Republic. The fight was notable for being both the largest hooligan fight in Micrasian history, as well as being the first visible sign of alliance within the hooligan groups.

Background

In the 2018 Copa Apollonia group stage, Gerenia and Senya had been drawn against each other in Group B of the competition, alongside Jingdao and Stormark. After their opening two fixtures, the situation was that a maximum of just one of the two teams could progress, after both teams failed to beat Stormark, with Senya additionally losing to Jingdao. During Senya's opening two fixtures, supporters had become increasingly aggrieved with their federation, FADESS, and had chanted against and attacked both the federation and their own team, including attacking the team bus following their draw with Stormark. This lead to the resignation of the head coach Draco Sanchez ahead of the fixture with Gerenia. Due to the increasing problems, the main Senyan ultras group, Naldas, had decided to vote to abandon their usual policy of anti-hooliganism to pressure change within the federation.

Similarly, the Corian ultras, Zeleni, were increasingly dissatisfied with their federation following poor results in their opening games of the tournament. This included frustrations about the banning of hooligan activities following incidents in their Confederations Cup fixtures against Shireroth. On the same day that Senya played Gerenia, the Corian national team faced the Florian Republic in Ravna.

Both fixtures carried intense rivalries already, with Gerenia and Senya sharing a fierce rivalry, whilst the Florians and the Corians had a rivalry stemming from their conflict in the War of Lost Brothers. All four groups had significant ultras groups with violent tendencies, namely the Naldas (Senya), Zeleni (Coria), Marauders (Gerenia) and the Red Army (Florian Republic). Prior to the Copa Apollonia, the Naldas and Zeleni declared a brotherhood which became colloquially known as the Apollonian Brotherhood.