Jose Riveiro agitated by disturbing violence that erupted after the Orlando Pirates & MC Alger Caf Champions League game - 'Football can't be dirty, it is unacceptable! Everything was a mess'

Orlando Pirates eliminated MC Alger from the Caf Champions League after a 1-0 aggregate win.

The lone goal of the meetings came in the initial fixture staged at the July 5, 1962, Stadium in Algeria.

Bucs forced a goalless draw in the second leg at the Orlando Stadium to make the next phase of the annual competition.

The celebrations by the home team at the Orlando Stadium were overshadowed by the ugly scenes.

Officials, players, and a section of fans were involved, with some trying to cool the situation while others looked like they were fueling it.

It was something that was not expected, as coach Jose Riveiro explains.

He believes football has no room for hooliganism but insisted he was not even aware of what caused the violent situation.

“I don’t really know what happened; probably we are going to the space to know who started the fight. I think it doesn’t matter for me, for us, or for my group; football is something special. It is something that cannot get dirty with this type of behaviour, which is something unacceptable," he told the media.

“Whatever happened, probably everybody was making mistakes outside, but those behaviours must be as far as possible from these types of spectacles, far from sport because we don’t really need it. We have to learn how to win, and we have to learn how to lose, we have to accept the result, whatever is coming.

“And again, I don’t really know what happened because I was just sitting on the bench when everything started. I was trying to understand the dimension of what we had just achieved a few seconds before, and all of a sudden, everything was a mess in front of me," Riveiro continued.

“We will see some sad pictures, and I hope that the people who find themselves in those pictures feel embarrassed enough not to repeat it again, and we can just have a normal football game every time we come to a football game.

"I don’t want to say much because I don’t have all the information right now, but hopefully, it is the last time that we see this type of scene in Orlando," the Spaniard concluded.

As respective authorities investigate the situation, Pirates are now dreaming of winning their second star.

They will be playing Pyramids of Egypt in the semi-final, hoping to go all the way and meet either Mamelodi Sundowns or defending champions Al Ahly in the final.