River Plate president Rodolfo D'Onofrio claims he has received death threats from hundreds of Boca Juniors fans such is the intensity of the rivalry between the two Argentinian clubs.
River and Boca will play the second leg of their Libertadores Cup final at Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium on Sunday after it was postponed last month following an attack by River fans on the Boca team bus.
CONMEBOL, South America's football federation, moved the game from Argentina to Spain amid fears of further fan violence.
Although exposed to intense scrutiny from fans of his own club, D'Onofrio said he has already received death threats from fans of their biggest rivals.
"You need to have adequate security," D'Onofrio told El Pais on Friday.
"If I go out in the street and say I don't want to attend games at our stadium anymore, the River ultras will send death threats to me, my daughter, my wife and all my family.
"It's happening to me now. I have 200 or 250 Boca fans who say they're going to kill me."
"It was the security system that failed, absolutely and totally."
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