Tanzania youth team captain Abraham Morris was floored over the weekend by the type of kick which would appear more at home in the MMA octagon than on a football pitch.
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As some older football fans will recall, what constitutes a ‘bad’ tackle nowadays would be considered fairly tame back in the good ol’ days of the beautiful game – especially when you consider what the likes of Ron ‘Chopper’ Harris would do each weekend to forwards unlucky enough to line up against him.
Even a player of Harris’s legendary grit might see fault in this particular challenge though, which took place in an underage game between Burundi and Tanzania this past weekend.
With Tanzania leading 2-1 in injury time, Morris deftly lifted the ball over and opponent but was immediately felled by what we can only describe as a spinning back kick. To add insult to injury, the Burundi player appears to stamp on Morris’s leg as he lies on the ground.
Remarkably, neither a red nor yellow card was issued by the referee.
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Morris would have the last laugh, however, as his side ended up winning the game – even if he has a few bumps and bruises as a memento.
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