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A female football fan has shared pictures of horrific injuries she sustained during a brutal beating in front of her young daughter, in a campaign to get the thugs responsible taken to court.

Lorena Sabio, 33, from Argentina's Buenos Aires province, had taken her eight-year-old daughter Altea to watch her side River Plate beat opposing team Boca Juniors when she was spotted wearing her team's shirt by a rival fan.

She said: "He came up to me and I couldn't believe it when he just punched me in the head."

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The man - who she named as Miguel Angel Zienzonok and is nicknamed "Ketchup" because he likes making a red mess of rivals - and his fellow thugs then gave the young mum such as savage beating that doctors said she will always bear the scars on her face.

She said: "I was lying on the ground barely conscious, and he told me to stay there and warned me that if I went to the police, I would pay the price."

The story was backed up by other locals who told local media that the attack was unprovoked.

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But so far police have still not arrested the main suspect, prompting Loreno to post the pictures on Facebook and demand police act.

She said: "He has threatened me and his family have told me to stop the campaign, but what more can they do to me, they have already ruined my face.

"I have difficulty even managing to eat, and will need dozens of operations that I can't afford to return my health. My daughter has nightmares.

"The man is crazy, and unless somebody stands up to him he will probably carry on doing it and next time probably kill someone."