The first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinal between Real Madrid and Barcelona was as cranky as you would expect from a Clasico. There were six yellow cards in all, but with Barca up 1-0 in the second half, Carles Puyol tried to keep it from boiling over.After Gerard Pique did a tremendous job with a sliding clearance to prevent a scoring chance for Cristiano Ronaldo at the post, he came up with Soldes Maillot de foot a lighter thrown from the Bernabeu crowd.
This month in Italy, AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng chose not to play on and led his teammates off the pitch in protest at racial abuse by opposing fans during an exhibition match against fourth-tier Italian club Pro Patria. Boateng picked up the ball,wear the , kicked it at a section of the crowd, took off his shirt and walked off with his teammates.
Altidore said that while he and Boateng reacted differently, they were both ''trying to send the same message in terms of saying racism should not be allowed and should not be tolerated at any level.''''He was trying to send the same message I was trying to send about the maillots football .''Altidore praised the response of the Netherlands Football Association, saying it has ''done a tremendous job.''
Pique held it out and was about to show the referee, but Puyol grabbed it from him, got the football shirt ,tossed it aside and told Pique to get in position for the ensuing corner kick. Either he wanted Pique to stay focused on the match and not on trying to get others in trouble or he just didn't trust him holding a lighter around his hair.Real Madrid went on to score in the 81st minute with a header from 19-year-old defender and Man of the Match Raphael Varane.