Bensebaini and Guirassy argue – The most legendary feuds among teammates: The enemy in my team
Don't take it, I'll take it: In the Champions League match in Turin, Dortmund's Ramy Bensebaini was designated as the penalty taker. His teammate Serhou Guirsassy, however, was not particularly interested. The defender and striker engaged in a heated exchange before Bensebaini was finally allowed to do his job and converted. The two rivals were by no means the first teammates to have gone at each other's throats.
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Strictly speaking, they weren't even the first BVB players! In February 2003, BVB almost conceded a goal in the Revierderby, making it 2-3, but it was offside. Jens Lehmann, however, couldn't care less. With his typical composure, he sprinted halfway down the field and tackled teammate Marcio Amoroso . The Brazilian shoved the keeper back toward goal, but he couldn't get there: Lehmann, who had already been booked, received his second yellow card of the game, was sent off, and received such a stinging reprimand from captain Stefan Reuter that Klaus Kinski's outbursts seemed like cheerful daisy-picking in comparison.
But it's not just the stadium that's causing a stir; things are also heating up in training: In the training camp before the 2002 World Cup, Sweden's Olof Mellberg tackled his teammate Fredrik Ljungberg so hard several times that the latter lost his temper. No big deal, though. A short time later, the press went to him, and Mellberg said: "Freddie is a great guy. My toughest fights on the pitch were often against him." We wouldn't have guessed that from these pictures.
Rafael van der Vaart and Zlatan Ibrahimović once proved that teammates don't even have to play on the same team to get at each other's throats. The two Ajax youngsters faced each other in matches against Sweden and the Netherlands, and their cool relationship was already well documented. The Swede finally made the Dutchman a peace offering in the form of a foul so hard that van der Vaart subsequently complained, not without reason, that Ibrahimović was trying to break his leg. "Back then, I was the best player at Ajax. Then he came along and thought he was the best player at Ajax," van der Vaart later said. But we can hardly imagine that happening with Ibra.
An underestimated conflict: coach versus player. The 2010 World Cup went so badly for France, both on and off the pitch, that French President Nicolas Sarkozy personally apologized to the entire Grande Nation. Raymond Domenech fell so out of favor with his players after questionable personnel decisions that Nicolas Anelka lost his temper at halftime of the group match against Mexico. The striker felt he had been misused by Domenech and, according to L'Équipe, expressed his opinion matter-of-factly and calmly in the dressing room: "Fuck you, you son of a bitch!" After the group stage, it was over for the 2006 finalists.
Wonderful, a modern classic: In 2009, Lukas Podolski was so fed up with captain Michael Ballack during a World Cup qualifier in Wales that he actually slapped him. Poldi later explained his motives: "It started in the first half, when Michael should have passed to me. In the second half, one thing led to another. I haven't spoken to him in the locker room yet; we'll sort it out at the hotel."
In December 2016, Preston North End were down to Sheffield Wednesday despite having a man advantage. Instead of working together to equalize, strike partners Eoin Doyle and Jermaine Beckford had nothing better to do than get at each other's throats . Both were sent off, their team lost, and the away fans were reimbursed for their travel expenses. At least!
Mauro Icardi and Maxi Lopez were once teammates at Sampdoria Genoa. But love separated the two. In 2013, Icardi married Wanda Nara, the woman Maxi Lopez had recently been dating. From then on, Lopez refused to shake hands when they met, and Icardi also demonstrated a great deal of style when he later tattooed the names of Lopez and Nara's children on his body.
The absolute monster gem among the comrade fights: As if the 3-0 deficit against Aston Villa at their home stadium, St. James Park, wasn't proof enough for the Newcastle fans that something was wrong with their team, teammates Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer also went for each other's throats. And they really did. No big shoving, the two just let their fists fly. The fight erupted, of course, because Bowyer hadn't been passed to by Dyer on several occasions. Dyer later told the story in his own words : "The reason I didn't pass you the ball? Because you were just really shit." Logic that convinces us.
Former teammates David Batty and Graeme le Saux were in no way inferior when the then Blackburn Rovers players briefly got hungry for cheek fodder in the European Cup match against Spartak Moscow.
If you're going to lose the derby, you're going to lose it big. The Gunners succumbed 5-1 to rivals Tottenham in the League Cup, and as if that weren't enough, Emmanuel Adebayor also delivered the rare feat of a headbutt to his royal teammate Nicklas Bendtner. That the two had little affection for each other is also evident here.
The best argument ever. And Norbert Meier.
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