Leonardo Bonucci was one of the protagonists of Italy's victory over Spain that qualified them for the final of the European Championship. His was one of the goals of the batch and he had to suffer the great game of a Dani Olmo that drove the Italian defense crazy. “It was one of the toughest games of my career”, he came to say after the crash. But the Leipzig attacker was not the only tough opponent he had to face on the London night, as had to get away from a security guard who mistook him for an amateur.
The surprising situation took place at the end of the match, when the Juventus central defender went to celebrate the victory with the tifosi who gathered in the stands at Wembley. When trying to return with his companions, a security guard apparently did not recognize him, prevented him from moving in the first instance and asked him to return to his seat, making it clear that he thought the Italian was a fan who had jumped onto the pitch.
Bonucci's face was a poem, because he did not believe the request and social networks did not take long to make such a hilarious moment. “Classic Wembley security,” one tweeter joked, while another added: “I'm glad, for the security guard's sake, that it wasn't Giorgio Chiellini”. The video of the moment has not been slow to circulate on Twitter, being described as “one of the strangest moments of Euro 2020”.
A simple anecdote that is surely remembered with a smile by the 34-year-old defender, which now awaits a rival in the grand final. England or Denmark, who play the second semifinal this Wednesday (9:00 pm), will be in charge of trying to frustrate Mancini and his team in the same way that Wembley security tried to block Bonucci's advance.