The defender who mowed Dabour apologized

In the last league round in Germany Mons Dabour was already on his safe way to score goal number 5 this season, after taking control of a ball and a tap towards Wolfsburg’s exposed goal deep in extra time (the Greens’ goalkeeper went up to the corner to equalize) but then came defender Paulo Ottavio who committed an offense Ugly and aiming for the Hoffenheim striker on the verge of entering the pitch, he saw the red card.

The brutal offense earned the Brazilian defender a four-game suspension and turned him and Dabour into a viral hit, with the video of the move spreading across the net like wildfire. Today (Friday) the Wolfsburg defender addressed what happened in the final seconds of the game in an interview in Germany.

“The truth is that I went through difficult days. I did not think my offense would produce so much noise. It was distributed all over the world and I received a lot of messages, some encouraging and some negative, “he said Otavio Who explained what caused him to commit the offense: “The problem was that on the clock in the stadium was written 90 minutes and not how much time passed from the extension, I thought that if I avoided a goal then we might be able to compare later, I did not know there was not enough time.”

“It is important for me to make it clear that my goal was not to injure Dabour, not at all,” the Brazilian clarified. “I wanted to talk to him right after the game but unfortunately he has already left the stadium. I got his number and wrote to him. It was very important to me that he is a colleague. I apologized. He thanked me for it and replied that everything was fine. It made me happy and was very important to me. He was angry on the field mainly because I prevented him from scoring, I can understand him and wish him to score many more goals. “

Finally, the Wolfsburg defender said that his friends in Brazil laughed at him following the incident: “They wrote to me that in Brazil they changed the name of the game ‘Stone, Paper and Numbers’ to ‘Stone, Paper and Paolo’. “My mother was also very nervous about me and told me that if she was on the field she would pull me from my ear to the room and close me there for two hours so that I could think about what I had done.”

Paolo Otavio removed (Reuters)