You tell yourself that cartoons don’t have a corrupting effect on your kids and then you see something like this.
Gastón Aguirre seems to have been unduly influenced by Dick Dastardly and Muttley during his ’80s childhood. The San Lorenzo striker is certainly a lot more effective at waylaying pigeons than the cartoon duo ever were. His wild shot in the first Apertura playoff game against Tigre sent feathers flying and left the referee with a nasty clean up job.
More dead birds - and I never thought I’d write this - can be seen here. Dick Dastardly aficionados will be sad to learn that there’s no pigeon killing in this video. The bird’s already a goner when the clip begins.
Last week’s Copa Sudamericana quarterfinal between Brazilian side Botafogo and Estudiantes of Argentina was a bad-tempered affair from start to finish. The angriest man on the pitch was André Luís. Referee Carlos Chandía did nothing to improve the Botafogo defender’s mood when he booked him in the second half.
Grabbing the yellow card prompted his second controversial expulsion of the year.
In June, during a Campeonato Brasileiro match, Luís gestured to Náutico fans as he left the pitch after being sent off. The police intervened and escorted him from the field of play. But only after fighting his Botafogo team-mates! Video coming soon.
Diego Maradona warms up as SS Napoli prepare to take on Bayern Munich in the semifinals of the ‘88-89 UEFA Cup. The Olympic Stadium PA is playing Live Is Life by Opus and the wee Argentinian seems to like it.
So, there you go - Maradona loves Euro-pop, Steve Nash loses his Garrincha’s Dog keepie-uppie crown, and Emmanuel Adebayor’s moves suddenly don’t look so hot.
While we’re on the subject of Martin Palermo spot-kick misses, the Argentinian striker’s claim to fame in world football is wasting three penalties in one game.
Colombia beat Argentina 3-0 in the 1999 Copa América match.