Athletic Bilbao played a charity game against 100 spanish schoolkids to bid farewell to forward Joseba Etxeberria who is leaving the Basque club after 15 years.The 20,000 crowd, and most of the players, struggled to keep track of the ball as the La Liga superstars’ rigid 4-4-2 diamond formation was swamped by the youngsters’ 20-60-19 headless chicken system. …!
The kids,despite their slight numerical advantage,lost the game 5 -3.
The referees were also seen having quite a bit of problem correctly interpreting the offside rule. Most of the linesmen gave up in despair and went home and watched the game on telly….!
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