Carlos Alberto Banned For A Little Slap & Tickle

Well, at least the slap, and it looks like a little tickle is attempted, making it as good a theory as any.

Carlos Alberto, enfant terrible for Werder Bremen currently on loan to Botafogo, was banned eight games (8!) for inappropriate activities with an opponent’s bottom. And not “I’m going to teach you a lesson” or “the safety word is tangerine“, but something else entirely, the motives of which I leave you to discuss amongst yourselves. Suffice it to say, hardly malicious.

As you’d expect, a couple people (or everyone) have done a double take at the suspension, but the commission won’t back down, saying it was “undisciplined and immoral conduct”.

Coach Ney Franco is in an uproar as well:

“That was not an issue for the disciplinary board. It was a joke! It’s part of the game. Even our opponents were laughing at it.”

Well, can’t say I’ve ever played football in Brazil, but I’ve never had anyone try and play where’s my finger? in any sport in any part of the world. But yes, eight games does seem a tad much.

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Category: South America, World Football