USUALLY ONLY THE FOLKS IN THE STANDS ARE BEING TORTURED:

Brazilian player brutally murdered (Anthony Sormani, 9/25/08, SI.com, Goal.com)

Brazil is in mourning after former Vasco de Gama player Thiago da Silva was brutally tortured and murdered, allegedly by hired assassins on the orders of his ex-girlfriend.

Da Silva, 25, who had been playing for second-division team Estacio de Sa Soccer Club, died in a Rio de Janeiro hospital Wednesday night, six days after being mortally shot in an attack by three men on a soccer field.