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DTotD: Goalkeeper banned four years for viciously kicking opponent in the head

A series of bad decisions has resulted in a goalkeeper receiving a four-year ban from the Chilean Football Association after he brutally kicked an opponent in the head during a third division match. The reason Claudio Abarca kicked Diego Diaz in the head, breaking his jaw in the process, is because Diaz decided to punch him in the balls.

Now, punching people in the balls is a bad idea no matter what the circumstances, but it’s especially bad when you’re already lying on the ground. You don’t want to royally piss someone off while you’re already in that much of a vulnerable position. That doesn’t excuse Abarca for his overzealous retaliation, but it does explain it.

Abarca was arrested by police right then and there. According to ESPN FC, he had to spend a night in jail. Diaz, meanwhile, was taken away on a stretcher and treated at a hospital for his broken jaw.

As awful as this situation was, hopefully it taught these two men that ball punches and head kicks are not good things to do.

This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events. 

DTotD: Brazilian defender sent off for kicking opponent in the face

Just before halftime in Saturday’s match between CRB and Bahia, defender Flavio Boaventura decided that he needed to test his leg extension after making a clearance. It just so happened that as he was doing this, Bahia striker Hernane was coming his way, resulting in Boaventura planting his studs into Hernane’s mug.

Boaventura was sent off for his poorly timed leg stretch, but CRB still came back from 1-0 down to finish with a 2-2 draw despite only having 10 men for the entire second half. Perhaps it helped that Hernane played on with his face smashed to the back of his skull.

This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events. 

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DTotD: Burkina Faso player punches opponent in the face

During an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Botswana, Burkina Faso defender Steeve Yago decided to utilize a highly effective method of defense: punching his opponent in the face. This approach succeeded in getting the Botswana player off the ball. It also got Yago a red card and a knockout, since his victim was carried off on a stretcher.

Burkina Faso won the match 2-1 as two other red cards were shown on the day.

This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events. 

DTotD: Neymar gets tackled by pitch invaders during Brazil training session

Almost single-handedly winning Brazil’s first ever Olympic gold in football is apparently a good way to get yourself lovingly mauled by pitch invaders, as Neymar found out during a training session in Manaus. Amidst a sustained chorus of joyful shrieks, several pitch invaders evaded security to hug Neymar to the ground.

Neymar couldn’t help but smile during the hug attack and urged security to go easy on his assailants.

Of course, if he wins a World Cup for his country next, he’ll have a couple hundred million people trying to hug him at once.

DTotD: Gervinho is stomping on people in the Chinese Super League

Gervinho now plays for Hebei China Fortune and he’s making his mark there — namely on the crotches of his opponents. With his side down 1-0 in the 82nd minute, Gervinho had the ball taken off him and then tried to get it back by stomping on the genitals of his downed opponent. His tactic worked, but it also get him sent off. His team went on to lose.

But hey, now he knows you can’t do that in the Chinese Super League, either.

This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.

DTotD: Ezequiel Lavezzi tackled by advertising board, breaks elbow

It turned out the pitchside advertisements put up more of a fight against Argentina than the U.S. did in their Copa America semifinal. Ezequiel Lavezzi, who opened the scoring in Argentina’s 4-0 win with a 3rd-minute goal, fell backwards over the pitchside board in the second half and broke his elbow.

The injury will prevent Lavezzi, who scored twice in the tournament, from playing in the final.

The advertisement went unpunished. It had just as many shots on goal as the U.S.

This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events. 

DTotD: Pittsburgh Riverhounds player viciously kicks opponent in the back

A Red Bulls II player who was sent off during a USL match against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds ended up having to be taken away on a stretcher after being kicked in the back. With the Red Bulls up 3-1 late in the game, a scuffle broke out, resulting in New York’s Karl Ouimette and Pittsburgh’s Romeo Parkes both getting red cards. Presumably figuring that he had nothing left to lose, Parkes kept jawing at Ouimette as he walked off before kicking him in the back like Leonidas in 300.

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DTotD: Marouane Fellaini elbows Robert Huth, gets his hair pulled

Marouane Fellaini delivered his 1,872nd elbow to an opponent’s head (which entitles him to a free small coffee!) as Man United hosted Leicester City. Though Fellaini’s elbow didn’t seem to hurt Robert Huth’s jaw of steel, the German defender did give Fellaini a taste of his own medicine with a hair pull.

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