14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this month, Brazilian sports club Sport Club do Recife met Clube Náutico Capibaribe on the field for what was supposed to be just another football match.
The thing is that, contrary to custom, this one match did not end with the supporters of these two Brazilian sports clubs beating each other senseless. In fact, not one of the fans who came to see the match was arrested.
This is all the more surprising given the fact that, apparently, Sport Club do Recife fans are well known for being quite violent and for causing all sorts of trouble at nearly all the matches they attend to root for their favorite team.
Meet the fierce and quite frightful Security Moms
The reason nobody got into a fight or was arrested during last Sunday's match between the teams of Brazil's Sport Club do Recife and Clube Náutico Capibaribe was that the event was supervised by nearly 30 mothers wearing orange vests.
These women, shown in the photos accompanying this article, patrolled the stadium from the moment the football match began until it ended, and made sure that their sons and their friends were on their best behavior.
To prove that they meant business, the women, hired and trained by the Sport Club do Recife especially for this event, even called themselves Security Moms, Oddity Central reports. Not at all surprisingly, not one of the fans dared defy them.
It was more about psychological dominance, really
Talking to the press, Aricio Forter, the vice-president of the PR company whose idea it was to create a task force of Security Moms, explained that, at the end of the day, this move was about psychological dominance.
Thus, it appears that the event's organizers decided to have mothers supervise the match because they assumed that nobody would ever dare start or get involved in a fight in front of their own mom. As it turns out, they were right to make this assumption.
“The idea was to make the most fanatical supporters aware and help in some way to bring peace to stadiums,” Aricio Fortes explained in a statement. “At the end of the day, no one wants to fight in front of a mother, especially his own,” he added.
