Pa. soccer thugs in garbage-lid slay

Police are searching for a group of soccer hooligans who beat a man to death with a garbage-can lid after an argument outside South Philly’s famous Pat’s King of Steaks early Thursday morning, police said.

A fight broke out at around 2 a.m. between two groups, in one of which at least seven wore yellow soccer jerseys like those worn by Mexico City’s Club America team, which had defeated the Philadelphia Union hours earlier in an international match, police said.

At one point in the rumble, someone struck the victim with the trash-lid. When he was wrestled to the ground, the assailants began punching and kicking him. He died of his injuries, police said.

The attackers fled in a white SUV. Cops said they have security-camera footage of the incident.

Police believe alcohol may have been a factor in the attack.