ONE football fan took it upon himself to grab the TV camera mid-game and turn it to show his own face.
Just 36 minutes into a Copa clash between Acassuso and Gimnasia LP, the instinctive supporter took his chance.
A fan in Argentina interrupted a match to turn the camera on himself Credit: X
The man was on live TV for several seconds before the director cut away Credit: X
Footage broadcast to those at home on TyC starts to become rocky as the camera is first taken by the man.
With play progressing for Gimnasia on a counter-attack, the picture does not follow the ball up field.
Instead, it starts to shake and moves up to show more of the stand opposite than the game.
Then, after a few seconds, the turns round fully to show a bloke’s face at close range.
Smiling away and shouting into the lens, the bald fan looks overjoyed to have caused such disruption.
The TV director quickly found another shot to cut to, shifting to a view from pitch level and behind one of the goals.
Rather than showing the horizontal picture most are used to, it instead tracked the ball and a few players whilst the incident in the crowd was dealt with.
The man was still in shot for around five seconds and seemed to have control of the camera for 10 seconds before it was dealt with.
And those online weren’t sure what to make of it, with one writing on X: “Now all the idiots are gonna start doing the same thing in the next matches.”
Another said: “It’s the most Copa Argentina sequence I’ve ever seen in my life”.
A third wrote: “Only in Argentine do these things happen”.
Somebody else replied to a post showing the clip: “It reminded me of [Heath] ‘s Joker when he grabs the camera with the fake .”
With the score still at 0-0 in this cup game, nothing much was missed.
And Gimnasia went on to win 3-0 with all the goals coming after half-time.
Eze Chidiebere Paul
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