World’s Strangest Sports Penalty: Stripping Rivalry

The never seen. A forward enters the area, faces a defender and suddenly he grabs his shirt and pulls it up. He is about to take it off completely, stripping her from the waist up, but the garment gets caught. … on the attacker’s head, preventing him from seeing.

It happened in the 65th minute of the Alavés-Real Sociedad match corresponding to the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey. The locals won 2-1 and such a strange play forced the match referee, the Andalusian Quintero González, to go to the VAR monitor to analyze what happened.

Seeing, never better said, the peculiar scene, the coach declared a penalty for Caleta-Car’s foul on Toni Martínez inside the area. Toni himself prepared to take the maximum penalty. He hit with his right foot, and Remiro, the San Sebastian team’s goalkeeper, stopped the ball. And in that stop his team’s comeback was cemented. La Real won 2-3 and qualified for the Cup semifinals.