#3 Pepe kicking Casquero
Apparently, this shook Pepe so much that he considered retiring from the game. Things were never really the same for the Portuguese after that incident. And he did himself no favours by stamping on Lionel Messi some years later, but the incident with Carlos Casquero was what truly put a black mark on his name.
The Portuguese defender always had a dark side to his game – and it all spewed out in this incident. As Madrid were losing and the ball was running out of play, Javi Casquero was chasing it and Pepe was chasing him.
What happened after that is truly something that we would never again want to witness on a football pitch. If Pepe did that anywhere outside the pitch, he would have been jailed for it. It was silly as well as vile.
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