And the reason wasn’t always the game itself; sometimes the quarrels concerned women.
When you watch football on TV, you think that the team contains real friends, because they all celebrate the goals together and worry about the failures. But unfortunately, this is not the case. There was, is and will be enmity even in the best clubs.
You can argue a little with a colleague, as happens with football players during a match or in training, and then reconcile. But when people don’t even want to talk to each other and mock the enemy in every possible way Media – that’s something else.
Let’s remember the footballers who could never make peace.
El Hadji Diouf and Jamie Carragher
The Senegalese has made quite a few enemies during his career, but his rivalry with Carragher was particularly memorable.
“I came to pre-season training hoping to see the players who will make us champions. nuclear submarineCarragher wrote in his autobiography. — That same evening, I returned home depressed. Do you remember how, at school, you chose classmates for your team? We did it at Liverpool when we were playing five against five. And Diouf was always the last choice for a while“
And in 2015 he told Scouse Bird Problems: “The worst player I played with is definitely El Hadji-Diouf. Even though I really enjoyed kicking his legs when I played against him“
Diouf has repeatedly responded to such attacks, calling Carragher a “bloody loser” and saying Jamie looks like a huge turkey on the football field.
Emmanuel Frimpong and Samir Nasri
“The truth is I never liked that guyFrimpong told The Athletic in 2019. Even if he gives me five billion dollars, I still won’t like him.“
Frimpong’s animosity stems from an incident which arose after he received a red card in the Gunners’ 2-0 defeat to Liverpool. For Frimpong, it was only the second match in nuclear submarine for Londoners. After the match, everyone in the locker room was silent, but not Samir. He said the defeat was Frimpong’s fault. According to reports, Nasri even called Frimpong after Emmanuel criticized his decision to leave for Manchester City on social media. The men exchanged threats and insults.
Teddy Sheringham and Andy Cole
While on the pitch together, the pair scored a goal every 84.8 minutes, but tensions date back to Cole’s England debut, when the striker replaced Sheringham without them even shaking hands. hand.
“I’d rather sit and have a coffee with Neil Ruddock, who broke my leg in two places in 1996, than with Teddy Sheringham.“Cole once said.
Lothar Matthäus and Stefan Effenberg
The German duo, who played together at Bayern Munich, at least managed to maintain their professionalism on the pitch. But it is quite remarkable that Effenberg included an entire chapter in his autobiography entitled “What Lothar Matthäus Knows About Football”. After the table of contents, there was a blank page.
Craig Bellamy and Jon-Arne Riise
Before the match against Barcelona, Liverpool players had a team dinner. But Bellamy got completely drunk. He shouted that Riise would sing, but that was not part of the Norwegian’s plans. Bellamy called Riise to the microphone for a very long time, which led to a verbal conflict. At night, the Welshman entered Riisa’s room and started beating him with a golf club. And then he managed to score against Barcelona and celebrate by imitating shots with a golf club.
Arjen Robben and Robert Lewandowski
For some teammates, Robben’s style of play was simply terrible, because he did not pass, moved away from the flank and shot on goal. Since joining Bayern, the Poland international has been regularly frustrated by Robben’s ego and has struggled to connect – on and off the pitch – but Arjen has persisted in kicking and shooting, never giving in to anyone.
Jens Lehmann and Manuel Almunia
Lehmann did not like to play second fiddle. Just look at their battle with Oliver Kahn for the German national team’s main goalkeeper position. And Almunia, widely regarded as one of the nicest people in the Arsenal dressing room, has said he has no idea why Lehmann has such animosity towards him. However, it could simply be a Jens trait, as after his playing days ended he began to regularly get involved in scandals.
The German launched numerous attacks on Almunia in the press, stating at one point: “Sitting on the bench behind someone who only started playing at 30 is not even funny”Romario and EdmundoIn 1999, Vasco da Gama recruited Romario for the second time; Edmundo then plays for this team in attack. After Edmundo replaced his old friend in the Brazil team at the 1998 World Cup, Romario hung a huge portrait of Edmundo on the bathroom door of his Rio bar. The old friend didn’t like this joke.
They threw insults in the press and even began to compete for women in a nightclub. “
We arrived at the club and couldn’t share the girl. I was prettier and smarter, so we started to compete
“, Edmundo once said.William Gallas and Kolo TouréThe enmity between Touré and Gallas ran so deep that the two men did not even communicate when they entered the pitch together.
It was reported that the cause was Gallas’ famous sit-in protest at the end of the 2-2 draw against Birmingham, but Touré claims it started a long time ago. The Ivorian refused to reveal the real reason, saying: “
If we start talking about it, it will be a big story.
“Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Rafael van der VaartThe Swede and the Dutchman competed against each other for their national teams while they were already teammates at Ajax. And after the match, van der Vaart claimed that Ibrahimovic had deliberately injured him. Coach Ronald Koeman wanted to reconcile them, but Ibrahimovic during the meeting threatened to break van der Vaart’s legs if he did not apologize.
Maxi Lopez and Mauro Icardi
Maxie refused to shake Mauro’s hand after starting a relationship with his ex-wife Wanda Nara. As a result, Icardi tattooed the names of Lopez’s three children with Nara. It’s hard to understand why he did this – out of love for the children, to make peace with Lopez, or to make him angry?
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I don’t feel comfortable with tattoos like that.
Lopez told Sky Sports in 2016.Children are my strength and they know that I will do everything to protect them because they mean everything to me.“ Nara gave birth to two children to Mauro, and now she is suing and threatening to take as much money from him as possible. Now Icardi is simply in huge trouble due to the divorce proceedings with Nara. However, their relationship has always been scandalous.Diouf and Carragher
Diouf and Carragher
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