Fernando Marcal received a yellow card for an unusual offense during Thursday’s Brazilian league match. The football player of the famous Botafogo tried to shoot down a drone with the ball.
In the 72nd minute of the match against Goias, when the game was interrupted due to the treatment of one of the players, a drone was hovering over the pitch, recording the action on the pitch with a camera.
He apparently upset the 33-year-old left back Marcal, who also played in Europe for Lyon and Wolverhampton, so much that he tried to hit him with the ball.
However, referee De Oliveira did not understand Marcal’s play and showed the captain of Botafogo a yellow card for unsportsmanlike conduct.
The summer signing from the Premier League has already received his third this season, which according to the rules of the Brazilian top league means that he will miss the next duel with Palmeiras, the leader of the table.
However, Marcal’s mood was certainly improved by the fact that a minute before the end of the meeting with Goias, Del Piage decided his team’s victory 1:0.
The club from Rio de Janeiro is ninth in the table after him.
