Like any team sport, high command and hierarchies must be respected by the players, since they receive instructions from the managers and coaching staff, so they must follow them, however, in football rebellions have never been absent and They occur on many occasions.
For this reason, in the following list we remember some of the best-known rebellions by some footballers who have committed them and that have occurred on and off the field of play.
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His crazy lifestyle was well known as he combined it with being one of the best offensive footballers of the 60's and 70's.
The Englishman squandered his fortune on drugs, sex and alcohol. His popularity made him lose his apartment and he lived eccentrically. In 1971, Best He was suspended by his club, Manchester United, for two weeks after intentionally missing the train that would take him to the stadium. Stamford Bridge to spend a weekend with the actress Sinéad Cusack.
His life did not improve after his retirement and he continued to have out-of-control moments that led to legal problems until his death in 2005 at the age of 59.
During years Maradona He battled addiction to drugs, medications and alcohol, which ended up significantly marking most of the moments in his life after retiring from football.
Throughout his career he had many controversies regarding his unsportsmanlike behavior. In the 1984 Copa del Rey final between Barcelona and Athletic Club in the Santiago Bernabeu, the meeting was surrounded by great tension, both
in the days before the meeting, with insults exchanged, and during the meeting. In the end, he won Athletic 1-0, but the worst came at the end of the match.
When the referee whistled the end of the game, Maradona attacked the Athletic player, Miguel Angel Sola. The players of both teams engaged in a pitched battle, including punches and kicks, before the eyes of all the spectators and the main Spanish authorities who were in the box.
After the scandal that arose, several players were heavily sanctioned: the Spanish Football Federation imposed Maradona a three-month sanction without being able to play in Spanish competitions.
That sanction that kept him away from the Spanish playing fields until December 1984 was one of the reasons that pushed the president of the Barcelona, José Luis Núñezto accept an offer from Napoli to transfer the Argentine.
Eric Cantona He was able to cover almost all aspects of rebellion inside and outside of football. On the pitch he left one of the most spectacular images that can be remembered, when, after being sent off in a match of the Premier Leagueresponded to the insult of a fan of the Crystal Palace with an acrobatic kick directly to the fan's chest.
120 hours of community service and eight months of sanction were his punishments.
“For many people, kicking these types of hooligans is a dream. So I did it for them, so they would feel happy.”commented Cantona years after the attack.
The former Brazilian goalscorer has revealed hundreds of anecdotes regarding his nightlife while he was a professional soccer player. His indiscipline throughout his career was quite a few.
One of them was the occasion in which he took 15 days of vacation more than the rest of his teammates in 1994 while he was part of FC Barcelona at the beginning of the season when the squad was presented, the annoyance escalated to the technical director, in that then, the same Johan Cruyff, who exhibited the player's lack of respe
ct for his teammates and club.
In 2003, Cuauhtémoc Blanco He punched the then TV Azteca sports commentator in the face, David Faitelson.
The journalist is known for generating controversy with his criticism that, at that time, according to the player, the television station was campaigning against him to affect his image.
After América's 2-0 victory against Veracruztempers flared and as the players from both teams headed to the locker room of the Luis 'Pirata' Stadium Fountain the assault occurred.
The attack was captured on video and was recorded when a hand came out of the Veracruz locker room window and hit the commentator's face without knowing who committed that act. After a while it was learned that it was the former forward of the Mexican team. Cuauhtémoc Blanco.
It is an open secret that the decline of the talented Brazilian's elite career was caused by his indiscipline with parties, both in Barcelona and Milan, which caused the coaches to not be comfortable with his attitudes and behaviors, for which was falling lower and lower in level.
There is talk that he arrived sleepless and drunk to training, he arrived late or even did not go, likewise, he did not make the maximum effort. In fact, it became known that, during his time in Mexican soccer with Querétaro, he had Mondays off and went to train whenever he wanted. Among other things out of the ordinary.
The feud between the Spanish coach Pep Guardiola and the Swedish striker rose during the attacker's spell in Barcelona. When the Swede arrived in 2009 he had all the world's star status, however, the Spaniard did not consider him that way, which is why he gave him fewer minutes than he expected. Finally, the attacker left the team a year later.
“When I met Pep Guardiola he told me: 'remember, the players here don't come with Ferraris'. What did I do? Of course. I brought my damn Ferrari the next day and shouted 'You don't have any, dog! You can go to the hell!”the former player revealed in his autobiography.
Things between the attacker and Guardiola They remained tense, so much so that Zlatan He ended up leaving the team to play for AC Milan, who paid 24 million euros by the Swede's letter.
During his first years as a professional, the Italian Mario Balotelli He was known for his multiple indiscipline and bad behavior on and off the court. His dark period at Manchester City would begin with a gesture of arrogance.
One of them was in a preseason match in the United States, instead of trying to score a goal correctly, he wanted to do it in a “luxury” way and ended up failing in an embarrassing way, which caused the coach's anger. Roberto Mancini who sent him to replace him and in the end they ended up in a heated argument. That would be just one of the many tense situations that both of them went through at the club.
The Chelsea goalkeeper at that time disobeyed the Italian coach Maurizio Sarri by refusing to come off as a substitute in the League Cup final in 2019.
The Italian coach decided to punish him by refusing to be substituted in extra time. Carabao Cupjust before the penalty shootout against Manchester City.
CR7 He has been one of the best footballers of recent times and one of the best in history, his career is full of successes with many collective and individual awards and it could well be an exemplary career for any professional who is starting out.
However, in the last years of his career, derived from bad personal moments and sporting ups and downs, he was forced to explode with frustration in his second stage with Manchester United and in Saudi Arabia with Al-Nassr.
During the European transfer deadline in the summer of 2022, the player did not manage to leave Manchester United and after a period of inactivity due to the coach's decision, it did not sit well with the scorer, which is why he had several out-of-character attitudes when he disobeyed the instructions. from dutch Eric Ten Hagleaving early to the locker room and aggressive behavior with fans.
On October 21, 2022, he was removed from the team for disobeying the coach. Ten Hag and in the end he ended up leaving the club at the end of the year to arrive at Arab football.
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