Champions League | Milan Rodic’s supersonic red card
The legend that some players are excluded to go first in the shower does exist. If you still doubt its veracity, Milan Rodic has just put an end to the debate.
As you know, some clubs have already started playing the Champions League. Too impatient to wait for the group matches, these teams relish the preliminary rounds, which are often tasteless. And the one played between Red Star Belgrade and Football Club Pyunik was no exception to the rule.
Very quickly, the Serbs lead 5-0 against very pale Armenians. Until then, we are witnessing a match without real confrontation, where one team easily takes over the other. But it was better to stay in the stands until the end of the meeting. And more precisely until this famous 90th minute.
The brilliant double inspiration of Milan Rodic
As the first leg of this preliminary round of the Champions League comes to an end, a player wants to be talked about in the newspapers: Milan Rodic. The Serbian left-back of Red Star Belgrade undertakes an ingenious project just before the gong. While the Armenians are trying to cross the halfway line for one of the first times in the game, Milan Rodic is guilty of a gross fault of antiplay. We repeat, we play the 90th minute and the score is 5-0. Some players really have no mercy in this world. And we like that.
The central referee does not even have time to put the yellow card in his pocket that he must already take it out. To whom? Always that devil of Milan Rodic. The referee is taken aback, as is the cameraman. No time to show the slow motion of the first fault that a second occurs as soon as play resumes. This time, we are entitled to a completely free sole from behind. Combined with a deep astonishment on his part at seeing the sanction. In the rules of art.
20 seconds that will make the legend of this king. King who a priori did not want to make the trip to Armenia.