At first, it seemed like such an innocuous moment in an otherwise scintillating night of Champions League action.
Real Madrid was beating Bayern Munich 3-2 in the second leg of their quarterfinal. The scores were level on aggregate and extra-time seemed a certainty with less than five minutes left on the clock.
Then, in the 86th minute, Los Blancos midfielder Eduardo Camavinga barely fouled Bayern striker Harry Kane to give away a soft free kick. Play should have just carried on without any hassle. Only, it didn’t.
It actually turned out to be the defining moment of Los Merengues’ season.
After the foul was given, Camavinga decided to temporarily stop Bayern’s players from taking the ball, briefly dribbling it away from the opposition before picking it up with his hands. It’s something that happens a lot in soccer; a way of slowing the restart of the game down, allowing the defensive side to get back in position.
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