At first glance, it looks like an April Fool's Day.
It even follows its contours, but, on closer inspection, it is not!
Kaio Wilker, a 28-year-old attacking midfielder, playing at Botafogo PB, will long remember this date, which was conducive to jokes of all kinds around the world.
The Brazilian player laughed yellow, or rather red.
He was, in fact, sent off just 17 seconds after the kick-off for having launched, both feet forward, at the head of a defender of Treze, Thursday, in a match of the Nordeste Championship, in Taguatinga, Brazil.
🇧🇷 Only in Brazil?
Red card ten seconds after kick-off in a @CopaDoNordeste (Northeast regional cup) rivalry match between Botafogo / PB and Treze.pic.twitter.com/UNPWOdErzW https://t.co/E0yOerKozF
- The CampeĂŁo (@TheCampeao) April 1, 2021
This gesture, to say the least dangerous, intervened eight small seconds, only, after the engagement.
The referee needed barely that much time to reach for his pocket and point the offender into the locker room.
Prematurely reduced to ten, his club recently relegated to the Brazilian Serie B, for the record, resisted well in numerical inferiority before lowering the flag, at the end of the game, on a goal from Treze striker Joao Leonardo in the 79th minute (1-0).
This is clearly one of the fastest expulsions in football history.
The record, in the sad matter, still belongs to Fernando Tobio.
In October 2017, the defender of Rosario Central was "invited, to leave the field" after only 9 seconds.
Against Godoy Cruz, in the quarter-finals of the Argentinian Cup, he had the clumsiness to miss a raise that had ended in the feet of the opposing striker Santiago "Morro" Garcia, quickly cut by a tackle from behind just in front. the surface.
In France, one of the fastest red cards was brandished after 39 seconds in front of Toulouse's Maxime Spano for a foul on Lille's Divock Origi in 2014.