Last night we had gone to this club in the city. Inside we saw this guy arguing with a coat check girl at the club, urging her to quit. It seemed like she was his ex girlfriend. She finally said that she had had enough of him and did not want anything to do with him anymore. He was ejected by the bouncer around 3:00 a.m. We heard him screaming drunken threats to shut this place down. He left but returned to the establishment with a plastic container with gasoline. He spread the fuel at the base of a staircase, the only access into the club, and then ignited the gasoline. The club had no fire exit, it only had one door. Some of those trapped punched a hole through a wall to an adjoining union hall in an attempt to escape. Eighty nine people died in the resulting fire, mostly from from asphyxiation or trampling.
I saw him after the 1998 World Cup where he had called a controversial penalty kick against Brazil for Norway. This was a friendly at Foxboro on September 12, 1998 between the US and Mexico's women's team that the US won 9-0 although he wasn't the ref but rather was there for some kind of award. I shouted out to him as he walked by "اسی چاکریم!" but he either didn't hear me or chose not to respond. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/...-builder-award Esfandiar "Esse" Baharmast, a former referee, player, coach and current instructor who has been involved in more than a dozen World Cup tournaments and Olympic Games, has been named the 2020 winner of U.S. Soccer's prestigious Werner Fricker Builder Award. The Iranian who officiated the first MLS match and first MLS Cup, and won the inaugural MLS Referee of the Year award in 1997, is the second referee to receive U.S. Soccer's highest honor after Gerhard Mengel in 2005. The Wern...
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