He ‘Draw’ Martinez He took the defeat badly Argentina in view of Colombia in a World Cup qualifying match and he paid for it with a TV cameraman who was trying to do his job by hunting players on the pitch to get statements. But he came up against the Aston Villa Argentine goalkeeper, who slapped him away to push the camera away.
Yesterday, Colombian associations had already protested and filed a complaint. And the cameraman who was attacked by the goalkeeper also wanted to speak out after the incident. “They blew the final whistle and, as a steady-state camera operator, I always go looking for reactions. I simply go onto the pitch and look for reactions. I see ‘Dibu’, I see him greeting a substitute goalkeeper, I think, and I approach him. And out of nowhere ‘Dibu’ throws me down,” said the operator, who fell to the ground after the blow.
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“I was angry, very angry, because I was working, just like he was doing, he was making saves and I was operating my camera, I wasn’t even playing football against him. But I didn’t say anything to him,” he added. “I wanted to tell you to stay calm, brother. In life, at some point, everyone has lost a game, and suddenly that defeat meant a lot to you. But keep going, Dibu.”
