On This Day – 2nd November
Football does have it’s fair share of comedy moments but I’m sure Mancini wasn’t laughing after this particular incident! It was on this day back in 2011 that Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini had a bit of an accident in an away game with Villarreal in the Champions League.
Dugouts have changed their appearance over the years and are now made up of about 20 luxury comfortable padded seats. It seems an age ago that they were just a small hut that the manager, his assistant, a physio and a couple of substitutes could cram in to.
Roberto Mancini, then manager of Manchester City took his side over to Spain to face the 2006 Champions League semi finalists Villarreal. After being used to the luxury and splendour of the posh seating along the touchlines in the Premier League, the City coaching staff had to slum it in a small, narrow dugout with a low roof at Villarreal’s Estadio de la Ceramica.
At some point in the first half, Mancini leapt up in animated fashion…and promptly thumped his head on the roof above his head!
As if the pain and embarrassment of the incident being seen by his backroom staff wasn’t enough, he then had to spend the rest of the game with an ice pack on his head!
Luckily for Mancini, his boys did the job of the pitch and City won the game 3-0. I don’t think that the Italian manager will want to go back to Villarreal any time soon!
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