Well, someone had to try it.
During the 2024 Copa America’s third place match between Canada and Uruguay this Saturday, The Maples’ goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair was given a booking for doing the unprecedented during a penalty shoot-out.
Canada’s Dayne St. Claire reads and hides Uruguay goalkeeper’s penalty cheat sheet
In a thrilling 2-2 that saw the national teams take their match into a penalty shootout after 90 minutes, Canadian goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair was shown a yellow card for taking Uruguay goalkeeper Sergio Rochet’s water bottle and towel, containing a ‘cheat sheet’ for Canada’s penalty takers.
Before the third penalty take of the shootout, Rochet and the referees ran to St. Clair following a series of whistles, with the goalkeeper appearing to have read and hid the Uruguay keeper’s notes.
A Uruguay national team staff member looked to have stopped and noticed St. Clair taking Rochet's belongings, giving the water bottle and towel back to Rochet after the Canadian keeper was shown the yellow.
Dayne St. Clair receives a yellow card pic.twitter.com/YiPQbshfFM
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) July 14, 2024
Pure shithousery from St. Clair.
Sheets containing a list of opposing team’s penalty takers (and their preferred placement of the shot) has become increasingly popular in recent years, with the latest being England’s Jordan Pickford who went viral this summer after using notes to send England to the Euro 2024 semifinals after saving Manuel Akanji’s penalty in the shootout.
Pickford did his homework #EURO2024 | #ENGSUI pic.twitter.com/NQpeuNqVw3
— UEFA EURO 2024 (@EURO2024) July 6, 2024
Like Pickford, Uruguay’s Rochet would go on to to save the only penalty of the shootout, with Canada sealing their loss after captain Alphonso Davies failed to convert his penalty and Uruguay claiming third place.
ALPHONSO DAVIES MISSES THE PENALTY
URUGUAY TAKES THE 3RD PLACE FINISH: ✅✅❌✅❌
: ✅✅✅✅ pic.twitter.com/8d83AWfnBi— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) July 14, 2024
Soccer in the 21st century, ladies and gentlemen.
