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We all know how much of a show-off can football players be, even during crucial moments the most arrogant ones tend to do things that they end up regretting later. This is the case of Graziano Pelle, a successful Italian striker who plays in the Premier League and has made it his life mission to become a world-class striker. Despite being 30-years of age, Pelle has finally made it to the Italian national team and performed really well at this Euros.
But that arrogance got the best of him against Germany last Saturday, during the penalty shoot-out he hinted at a Panenka shot gesture to Manuel Neuer and failed miserably. This brought a defeat to Italian football and soon after, Pelle was feeling responsible for what happened. After the game he wanted to apologize for what he had done, something that he could've saved because it was unnecessary.
He told reporters that: "It is not important to me now that it was a good tournament for Italy overall. I am very sad and I would like to apologize to all of Italy. I want to say sorry to my team-mates, to the coach, to the fans and to anyone else who wished me the best. I had just one job and that was to score the penalty. I would have become a phenomenon had I done that. I was a nobody when I arrived at the Euros and I am still a nobody now. But I have always given my all for the jersey of Italy.
"I did not want to disrespect Neuer. I wanted to deceive him. I saw that he dived before the penalty takers had hit their shot and he seemed to be flying to the corners. I tried to make him stay in the middle of his goal a bit longer by making the Panenka-gesture."
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