One of the things we always like to avoid is embarrassment. I remember being a child once – I must have been the only one – who had his head shaved off. So in a bid to hide it from my pals in a coaching centre, I decided to wear a winter skull cap.
As luck would have it, one of my friends looked at my less-than-graceful handwriting and spit the words, ‘your handwriting is just as messy as your hair.’ And that was it, the very next moment, another friend sitting beside me pulled the cap off and – blimey! – they saw what I was trying to hide as my shame was exposed in front of the other kids, including girls.
Terrible, isn’t it? However, what would have been even worse is if it was recorded on a camera and then shared on the internet for all to see. Footballers, however, are not as lucky as I was as some of their embarrassing moments are caught on camera.
From pranking Coentrao to sexually abusing Lionel Messi in the name of entertainment, here are 5 of the most embarrassing videos of footballers…
#5 Fabio Coentrao cries as a result of a prank
What happens when a prank goes too far, but you still end up laughing in the end? I do not know. However, what I do know is that this prank on Fabio Coentrao was pretty brutal and that the Portuguese left-back has a really, really soft heart.
Due to the lack of my Portuguese understanding ability and the absence of English subtitles in this video, it is difficult to say how things went down in an exact way. However, what can be interpreted is that two men dressed as police officer come to arrest Fabio Coentrao for a crime he didn’t do.
When his hands were cuffed, he tried hard to hold back the tears, but as soon as he started talking, he started weeping like a child. In the end, when the truth was disclosed to the former Benfica man, he was once again in tears, but, thankfully, he was all smiles in the end.
#4 Gary Lineker takes a dump on the pitch
Whenever I have a bad tummy, one of my biggest fears is that I might just unwantedly loosen up in front of many people. Of course, most of us know the drill. When the diarrhoea kicks in, something as little as a cough can release the foul-smelling kraken out of the back.
Gary Lineker, unfortunately, had to live this nightmare in reality — and that, too, in front of millions of viewers during a World Cup match in 1990 against the Republic of Ireland. After losing an aerial challenge against an opposition defender, the former England striker instantly went down on the ground and was seemingly dragging his behind through the grass.
Lineker, a lot of years later, went on to explain what really happened. Moral of the story: Italian food is not for everybody.
#3 Chris Waddle and Glenn Hoddle in a music video
There are a lot of footballers these days that are fans of rap music, nothing special given that most young wannabe gangstas of this age are also the same. However, the difference between footballers and these little wannabe OGs is that footballers have money – a lot of it – and can actually fund their way through to making songs.
This might seem like a thing today, but the trend of footballers doing music began a lot earlier and Chris Waddle and Glenn Hoddle were among the earliest exponents of it. These two are England football legends alright, but someone must have told them that they would be legends at whatever they do – and they took that way too seriously and made this mess of a music video as a result.
As you can see, the former England internationals are singing while a lady comes out of the darkness and does a little ballet around them. Watching this, I would say that people give this generation way too much stick for things that were actually inspired – and started – from the previous one.
#2 Kevin Keegan falls off his bike
According to Vedic scriptures, there is a tree in heaven called the ‘Kalpavriksha’, which roughly translates to a desire tree. The purpose of this tree is to give anything that a person standing in its shades desires. Like, literally, anything.
Kevin Keegan is basically a different type of Kalpavriksha that gives on giving fruits of laughter, even when the person is not really seeking it. There are probably 5 embarrassing videos of Kevin Keegan alone, but we will just focus on this one when he falls of his bike and makes me burst into laughter every time I look at it.
#1 Lionel being sexually harassed in the name of entertainment
And this is basically the most shocking of the lot. These days, someone even staring at kids for a little too long is frowned upon as a paedophile. And it’s not really the fault of the people as the world has really become a place worse than the coaching and management skills of Diego Maradona.
However, back in 2006, when Lionel Messi had just become an adult, a group of grown men thought it was okay to touch the player in his private parts in the name of entertainment. As you can see in the video above, the now five-time Ballon d’Or winner was visibly embarrassed – who wouldn’t be embarrassed at being groped by a group of men? – and wants to get away from the place as soon as possible.
Pretty sure that if this happened now, these guys would be in jail. Then it would be interesting to see them do the same with the police officers.
