The Didier Deschamps de Bayonne stadium , in France, has attended this Thursday an unusual gesture in the world of football, no matter how much it happened in a friendly match. A coach has unfairly understood the expulsion of an opponent and has decided to withdraw one of his players from the field to regain equal conditions.
Such a strange situation has occurred in a friendly duel that played Athletic and Toulouse in the Basque town. In the 74th minute of the match (which won the rojiblancos by 1-2), Unai López commits a foul in the center of the field. Iñigo Martínez , several meters from the referee, protests by opening his arms . Nothing special. However, the referee reacts by showing a direct red to the Biscayan center . Logic invites us to think that Iñigo told him something that the referee understood as inappropriate.
The fact is that, after a brief conversation, the international center went to changing rooms and the game continued. So far everything normal. However, and after talking with the lineman about the situation, Alain Casanova made a completely unusual decision a few minutes later. He called one of his soccer players, Quentin Boisgard, and told him to leave the field so that Toulouse also stayed with ten players on the field.
As explained by the French club itself on its website, Casanova first asked the referee to allow Athletic to replace the kicked out player so he could continue playing with 11. Obviously, the Thual referee refused , which led to Toulouse coach to make the decision that his team will also keep ten, if any voluntarily.
"The coach of Toulouse has had great detail in matching the game and finishing it ten against ten," said Athletic coach Gaizka Garitano , in statements to the media present in Bayonne after the match.
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