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Football players let ego get the best of them

Roar Rookie
17th August, 2010
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Roar Rookie
17th August, 2010
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Remember when scoring a goal for your club or country was for your team? Most players still do, but every now and then a player’s ego gets the better of him. And I’m getting sick of it.

After scoring a goal, some players feel the need to remove their shirt, throw it on the ground and parade in front of their fans in all their upper body glory.

Not only can it be considered time wasting, so much so that FIFA issued a directive that any player doing so will be yellow carded, I find it downright disrespectful to your club.

You should be playing for your shirt and the club whose emblem adorns it. Also the sponsor, who in part pays your wages are denied exposure in highlight shows around the world after your shirt has been dispatched to the grass.

But not only is it disrespectful to your club, it can also land you in hot water for no real reason other than stupidity.

Last season, Cristiano Ronaldo, while playing for Real Madrid, scored a goal to help his team defeat Almeria. It was a tap in but Ronaldo ran off like he had won the World Cup, removing his shirt and waving it around whilst flexing his muscles for the world to admire.

He received a yellow card for his indiscretion. Not five minutes later, he petulantly kicked out at an Almeria player after being dispossessed and rightly received his second yellow card and was sent off.

Now, he was lucky there was only five minutes remaining in the game and it had no bearing on the result, but Real were without him for the next match.

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And for what?

All because he wanted to run around like a maniac with his shirt off after scoring a tap in. He had disadvantaged his team for the next match because of his ego.

Bravo.

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