Canadian Hutchinson runs around the field with a tampon in his nose: the scene that depopulated the net – Football

One of the scenes of the World Cup that we will hardly forget. It’s 11′ into the second half of Croatia-Canada of the World Cup. Atiba Hutchinson, midfielder of Besiktas and the North American national team, quickly returns to the field while his team is taking a corner kick. On the nose a swabwith a dangling string. Shortly before, after a plane crash, the player started bleeding from the nose. He ran towards his bench, where the medical team contained the small hemorrhage in this way. Shortly after, once the epistaxis is over, Hutchinson gets rid of the cumbersome tinsel and goes back to playing with his nostrils free.

Hutchinson, the man of records in Canada and beyond

Hutchinson is the man of records, for Canadian football and beyond: he is the oldest outfield player in Qatar 2022 and last November 23, taking the field in the match lost against Belgium, he became – at 39 years and 288 days – the oldest outfield player to participate in a World Cup match since Roger Milla, who in 1994 was the protagonist with Cameroon at the age of 42. Not only that: in the following game, the defeat to Croatia, Hutchinson reached 100 caps for Canada, becoming the first player for the country’s men’s national team to do so.

The similarity with the film “She’s the man” from 2006

The network went crazy for the midfielder born in Brampton on February 8, 1983. But not for his longevity. He who runs around the field, with the swab and the fluttering string, reminded many of a scene from a 2006 comedy, title She’s the maninspired by Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. It is the story of Viola, a girl who, taking advantage of her resemblance to her twin brother, takes his place at a United States university to play on the men’s soccer team. When she is among her companions, however, an internal tampon falls out of her bag: “I often lose nosebleeds and this is perfect for stopping the bleeding. Have you never seen a tampon like this? Yet Beckham always uses it. I’ll show you how to use it”. Viola slips the object into her nostril and voilà, the still image, brought closer to the photo of Hutchinson in the field in Qatar, composes a perfect photo.