Playing football with your friends is one of the best things ever, even when there are fights between players. However, when you make it pro, you are forced to treat the opponent as a rival, right? Well, in Spain, one of the most known countries for their football teams, even friends become enemies on the football pitch.
Moreover, some of the most heated football fights between football players have occurred in el ”Clasico.” Yep, you guessed it! Real Madrid and Barcelona have this historical feud on many levels. Therefore, the tension has been manifested through players, fans, an coaches.
5- Mourinho VS Tito Vilanova
As we were saying, coaches have also joined the heated on-pitch fights with their team players. In fact, many people will remember that time Jose Mourinho coached Real Madrid, due to various incidents. Tito Vilanova was the assistant-coach of Barcelona at that time, during one of the team’s best eras in football.
During the fight between the players, Mourinho couldn’t resists and was captured putting a finer inside Vilanova’s eyes. In 2014, villanova died from cancer, and Mourinho paid his respects to the family of deceased.
4- Cristiano VS Messi
The ultimate comparison of the century in the football world. Everyone is defending one player over the other. Actually, the players have had multiple discussions over the years. Although some were heated than others, the entire world secretly looked forward to their clashes.
3- Pepe VS. Diego Costa
Also another story involving a Real Madrid player. Pepe has been called the hero of the Whites by the fans, along side Alvaro Arbeloa. Nobody stood up for their teammates as much as they did. Diego costa, who played for Atletico de Madrid during a time where tension was at its highest between the capital teams. Pepe and Diego Costa have had some crazy fights for years.
2- Zidane VS. Materazzi
Who wouldn’t remember this moment? The World Cup final between France and Italy, as millions watched the match. France’s super star Zineddine Zidane lost control and kicked Materazzi with his head. Since then, that moment became iconic to the point that they made a statue of it. Zidane got sent off with a red card, and France lost the World Cup.
1- Ramos VS. Puyol
The worst fight in Spanish football in the past few years, goes hands-down to Sergio Ramos. The current captain of Real Madrid wasn’t this wise, nor had many leadership skills. One of the most heated fights between football players witnessed Ramos throw Puyol really hard on the ground, and then hits Gerard Pique. The worst part? both played together for the Spanish National Team, and were supposedly ”friends” at that time. Needless to say, after this fight, things were never the same between the two players.
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