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VIDEO: Serie D coach kicks football onto pitch to stop opposition striker from scoring

Published 01:10 21 Dec 2014 GMT

Darragh Murphy
VIDEO: Serie D coach kicks football onto pitch to stop opposition striker from scoring

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Fair? No. Innovative? Certainly.

Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do to keep your team in the game and that's obviously a philosophy that was held by a coach at Serie D side Jesina this morning. When an Amiternina striker was bearing down on goal with the match level at 1-1 in injury time, Jesina coach Daniele Amaolo took the initiative that his defenders couldn't by hoofing a second football onto the pitch to force the referee to stop play. Genius. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1XGlKzDf4I

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VIDEO: Serie D coach kicks football onto pitch to stop opposition striker from scoring