8 Most Hated Football Teams Of All Time

4. Estudiantes (1967-69)

The Argentinian club were the most successful in the country in the dying embers of the 60's, winning cup after cup and a league title along the way. The fact that they weren't universally lauded in South America is partially explained by the translation of the team's nickname-The Killer Juveniles. They were simply the dirtiest and most uncompromising team of the era. Osvaldo Zubeldia was fond of a simplistic style of play. Sadly for opponents, this simplicity involved dirty tricks and outright thuggery, with studs raking down the Achilles and vicious, thuggish tactics being used to intimidate the opposition into submission early on in the match before any football broke out. While such tactics do crop up in every country with annoying regularity, the execution is rarely as venomous as it was with Estudiantes. The most notorious match of the Sixties saw Estudiantes face Milan, themselves no shrinking violets, in the 1969 final of the Intercontinental Cup. Aguirre Suarez was amongst the filthiest players in a dirty team, and he made sure that Nestor Combin, felt his presence early on by launching himself at the unlucky Italian and shattering his cheekbone. Foul after foul followed, to the extent that the shocked and repulsed watching Argentian president had the entire team arrested for assault after the game. Suarez and goalkeeper Poletti were sent to jail and the reputation of the game as the most violent in the history of football was cemented, along with the notoriety of this Estudiantes side.