14 years later, former Milan player Alexandre Pato told in detail how the legendary brawl went down in training between the two giants Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Oguchi Onyewu: “He took Ibra and knocked him out as if he was taking a glass of water, he then jumped. on top of him and I shouted at him: ‘Stop, you’ll kill him’.”
There are episodes in the life of a footballer that are still in print more than others and, for those who had Milanello i on the evening of November 5, 2010 participate in thecoach of Milan Massimiliano Allegrithere is definitely one among them the brawl between two giants like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Oguchi Onyewu has become mythological. So far, many of those present have spoken about the Rossoneri environment considered the ‘fight of the century’ ma no one ever went into detail about what happened on that dreary Friday in early November 14 years ago as did former teammates recently Alexandre Pato on the Voci di Calcio podcast.
The 35-year-old Brazilian was released after his last experience at São Paulo was first revealed the origin of the conflict between the two:”Zlatan took the ball, then went to mark it Onyewu accidentally hit Ibra’s leg. Except that Ibra’s leg is huge, right? Onyewu’s entrance is not exactly peaceful, you understand? He didn’t hit that by chance, he grabbed Ibra’s ankle. Onyewu continued to play. we realized Onyewu did so, but without malicehe did it because he wanted to catch the ball. He was just coming back from injury. Imagine that you run and you are a little scared, you are a little unsure. You tackle and you tackle badly.
A few seconds later Onyewu controlled the ball from behind and we see Ibra coming in with his feet on Onyewu, really ready to miss and I said, ‘Damn, what happened?’ They both fell to the groundOguchi became calm, he was very good, with a heart of gold. It’s not that Hebrew it was not, but it is more impulsive and he stood up immediately and started insulting him in Swedishsometimes we didn’t understand anything” Pato said that, despite the amount of time that has passed, it seems that everything that happened in that exciting training match at Milanello is clearly imprinted in his mind.
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It was what happened immediately after that that affected everyone, the team mates, the staff and the very small group of fans (around 30) who were attending the training session that in Milan. But, the version of events offered by Pato seems to contradict each other the one told by Zlatan Ibrahimovic himself in his autobiography ‘I, Ibra’ which reads word for word: “Onyewu began to pray to God with tears in his eyes as he crossed himself. I got even angrier, it seemed like a provocation. Allegri’s intervention? It didn’t help, I pushed him out of the way and ran back towards Oguchi. My teammates stopped me, I think it’s a good thing“.
According to the Brazilian striker, in reality, things went differently: “Ibra tried to grab Onyewu by the collar, he grabbed him to throw him down and what did Onyewu do? He grabbed Ibra and ‘bam’. He knocked it down. I think there was a camera filming everything, but they had turned it off. For Onyewu it was as simple as lifting a glass of water. Imagine Ibra, the man is huge, on him he grabbed him, turned him, threw him down and jumped on top of him, blocked him and raised his hand. When I saw it I called out to him: ‘Stop, God, stop, you’ll kill him’” Pato said matter-of-factly.
What happened next is history: “It was one of the scariest moments in my entire life. It was not better to see two men weighing 100 kilograms each arguing” he said indeed some time ago Massimo Ambrosiniof which the disclosure was then made Rino Gattuso (“They spent 25 minutes on the ground fighting with no one going there. They weighed a hundred kilograms each, I saw slaps that killed me” the words of the current coach of Hajduk Spalato) and the words of the third goalkeeper of AC Milan at the time Flavio Rome (“It took the whole group to share them, with the risk of injuring ourselves as they were two giants!”) until the moment it was possible calm the fight and make peace between the two giants.
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