Felipe Melo: “I would step on him again”

“If I could go back in time, would have stepped on Robben again “. Words of Felipe Melo in an interview three years ago at Balloon TV, when they asked him if he he regretted his behavior unsportsmanlike it cost him the Red card in the 73rd minute of the loss to the Netherlands that eliminated Brazil from the competition in South Africa. Philip had already marked, 20 minutes earlier, the Dutch draw goal in own door.

“I do not regret and I don't have to apologize to anyone. I would step on him again if I had to, because it was a learning moment “, The midfielder stated that, at 37 years, follow playing and messing it up on and off the pitch. Little did his personality change from his times in Turkey, when, between orafter controversy, attacked to his Galatasaray partner Albert Riera, sending him to the hospital, and he got out of hand with another partner in the middle of the Turkish Cup final. Now in the Palmeiras, started a brawl in a game of Libertadores against Peñarol, he fought with a rival and was expelled from the final of the Paulista Championship and publicly insulted the coach himself, Cuca.

Lately he's gottenor also in politics and is militante declared of Jair Bolsonaro, appearing in advertising campaigns of the current far-right government. His latest controversy was to organize a party for over 70 guests during quarantine.