Day Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 An Argentine football player has caused outrage after admitting that he used a needle to hurt his rivals during a cup match on Sunday. Federico Allende, a defender for lower-division club Sport Pacifico, bragged in a radio interview about using the needle several times against strikers from top-division club Estudiantes. Allende said that players had to be clever in order to win. Pacifico's president Hector Moncada vowed to expel the player. "We are devastated. This incident has tarnished the team's good work. I will expel him from the club," Mr Moncada told Clarín newspaper. Pacifico won the match 3-2, knocking Estudiantes out of the competition in a major upset. The players were received like heroes in the small western town of General Alvear when they returned from Buenos Aires, where the match was played But the good atmosphere soon turned into bad news. Allende gave Cordoba's Vorterix Radio an interview on Tuesday in which he said "you need to play dirty" to beat big clubs like Estudiantes de La Plata. "I kept piercing the Estudiantes strikers with a needle," said the Pacifico defender. "We know that top division players don't like contact, they don't like if we waste time or if we play dirty. So that was the way to do it. Football is like that. Football is for the clever," Allende said. South American football expert Tim Vickery told the BBC that Allende had hidden two needles in his shin guards. One broke but, when the referee was at the other end of the field, Allende used the other to poke Colombian striker Juan Otero several times. Otero complained to the referee during the match but to no avail. Tim Vickery says there is "a beautiful romanticism" about South American football but there is also another side where you do what you can get away with. Allende said on the radio: "I completely nullified Otero. He must hate me." After hearing the interview, Otero described Allende as "a nasty man". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-40283286 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 "Football is for the clever" Wonder if he's figured out how they caught him yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Google Estudiantes v Man Utd back in 1968 . The Argies were cheating nearly as much as the Italians , even back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernow Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Needles to say, he won't be doing that again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTedd Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 He's a really clever man, now he doesn't have a job. Genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Thought Derby v Forest was a needle match? Blimey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggg Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 What a cock up he's made of his career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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