Atletico Junior’s Emerson “Piojo” Acuna is a dirty cheat
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Last week we exposed Dynamo Kiev’s Olexandr Aliyev as a dirty cheat for a shocking dive at Arsenal during his side’s Champions League match.
Diving is not exclusive to Europe however, as evidenced by possibly the most incredible dive ever, committed by Atletico Junior’s Emerson “Piojo” Acuna last weekend in Colombia.
The action arrived in the first half of his side’s match with America de Cali, as Acuna, building an attack, picked up the ball on the right hand side passing to a teammate with the intention of receiving a quick one-two in return. And in fact that is exactly what happened, as Acuna continued his run into the box, at which point he was supplied with the through-ball he craved.
Roll Platoon.
Inexplicably, the forward, without a single defender around him in any shape or form, then decided to take an incredible tumble in the box when he was clean through. But that was only half of the story, as the referee immediately pointed to the spot, calling a foul on Acuna, which allowed Palacio to then slot home the opener for the hosts.
However karma then set in, and proving that cheats don’t always prosper Acuna then received his marching orders 15 minutes later, receiving a straight red in an unrelated incident.
Video evidence that Emerson “Piojo” Acuna is a dirty cheat can be seen here.
(Credit to Off The Post)
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
i bet he learnt that from cristiano ronaldo
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
That’s no worse than the Denilson dive v Chelsea. Are we going to get a “Denilson is a dirty cheat” story too, or is it just non-Arsenal players?
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
It’s a despicable dive, which happens all the time as exile noted. But really, the referee? You can see him watching the play develop, and then he makes either a tremendously incompetent or corrupt call. That’s just a terrible standard of officiating.
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Ha!
You cant be serious 101?
Your readers are not that stupid.
Its hardly breaking news worthy of a blog article that someone dived.
Maybe you should release a compilation of dives instead and save us from reading this lame attempt to cover up your mistake in the Aliyev article.
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
This guy should definetely be included…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZjvFdPGFfg
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Yeah the the ref had a perfect view of that one. It had to be rigged. And yes the Denilson dive was kinda bad but have you ever watched a game with Drogba. enough said.