DTotD: Owl kicker now kicking other footballers

Category: Football

Publish Date: 04-11-2011 12:28 PM -0400

You probably know Deportivo Pereira's Luis Moreno as the manifestation of pure evil that kicked Junior Barranquilla's live owl mascot into a state of shock that eventually killed it. Well, he has apparently decided that murdering winged creatures is not enough to satisfy his need to mercilessly assault living things with his feet, so in Sunday's match against Deportivo Cali, he moved up to kicking his fellow man.

When Andres Escobar was pushed to the ground near the corner flag, Moreno delivered a hard kick to his ribs while he was down. Moreno was sent off and, somewhere, the ghost of an owl mascot wept.

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