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Fair Play Alive and Well in Serie A

By: Daryl | October 3rd, 2008

Maximum respect to Reggina striker Franco Brienza, for reminding us what fair play looks like in professional football.

You can see in the video that Brienza is through on goal and ready to strike, but lets the ball run out of play instead when he sees that Reggina team mate Bernardo Corradi and Palermo defender Federico Balzaretti have clashed heads and are in a bit of trouble.

Palermo went on to win the game, but hats off to Brienza for putting the safety of his fellow pros ahead of his goalscoring stats.

[spotted on 101GG]

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LorenzoRosanero

For those of you that don't know, Ciccio Brienza came up through the Palermo ranks. He was with the rosanero for 7 years before he was bought by Reggina during last year's winter transfer window. Brienza has always been a class act, and this fair play should come as no surprise - even if it was against his old club to whom he is still deeply attached. He did the right thing.
Shane

The Palermo player was unhurt and the Reggina player respected what? HIS player being down while HE was on a breakaway? Dumb. Fairplay would have been if the Palermo player went down and he let the play die.
At the end of the day, Reggina lost. The point is to win, not rub each others asses.
Let the Ref decide when play is stopped.
Wayne

Great to see fair play. But really, come the end of the season he may have wished he knocked it in.

Those Italians sure know their fair play, huh? Di Canio first and now this guy.

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