Former Manchester United defender Marcos Rojo has been given additional and strange punishment by the Argentina FA simply days after he was given a purple card within the Superclassico.
Rojo, as it was reported here before, was given his marching orders within the dying minutes of his facet’s conflict towards their bitter rivals River Plate.
In true Rojo vogue, with the sport nearly coming to a halt, he launched a kung-fu kick that related squarely with Nicolas de la Cruz within the face.
The problem was deemed to be too excessive and extreme – because of this, he was despatched off.
Nevertheless, that didn’t spell the tip of the 32-year-old’s woes because it has now come to move.
Rojo has since been hit with further punitive action because the Argentina FA dominated that he shouldn’t put on the captain’s armband for Boca for a month.
The weird punishment signifies that the star, who gained the Europa League with United, will solely have the ability to captain his facet from October 12, once they face Sarmiento.
Talking about his troubles Rojo mentioned, “‘It doesn’t trouble me.”
“The classics are like that, will get somewhat an excessive amount of.”
He added, “I made three fouls in the entire recreation, we didn’t make as many fouls, we made some tactical fouls, it’s not that we had an aggressive recreation or unusual issues.”
“We’re calm with the issues we did, how we confronted the sport and the way we gained it.”
As anticipated, he was neither apologetic nor remorseful.
