MEXICO CITY - Thousands of fans flooded the streets of Monterrey in raucous celebrations of their team's first soccer title in 17 years, leaving at least two people dead and about 200 arrested Sunday. <br>
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The violence came after Rayados played Morelia to a scoreless tie to capture the championship. <br>
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The game ended just before midnight Saturday in Morelia, more than 850 miles from Monterrey. Thousands of fans rushed to the central plaza in Monterrey before the finish. Within a few hours, authorities said close to 15,000 fans had thronged the area. <br>
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A man died after being run over by a taxi and a teenager was stabbed to death by a group of people, Monterrey's police department said. <br>
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There were 194 arrests, most for public drunkenness or violating the city's open-container law, police said. <br>
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But radio stations in Mexico City cited public safety officials for Nuevo Leon state, where Monterrey is located, in reporting that five people were killed and that police briefly took more than 200 people into custody. <br>
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Monterrey, 435 miles north of Mexico City and about two hours by car from the U.S. border, is Mexico's third-largest city. Its only other soccer championship was in 1986. <br>
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Rayados is coached by Daniel Passarella, who led Argentina to the 1978 World Cup title. His team won the first game of the home-at-home series 3-1 on Wednesday and won the title on total goals.
