The World is a Ball: Jorginho’s autographs ruin American player’s fan shirts

If you’re a Chelsea fan, you’d probably like to have Jorginho’s autograph on a Chelsea shirt.

It was not the case, however, of a fan who was hunting for a signature in the vicinity of the place where the English club trained during its pre-season in the United States.

The team, one of the most famous in England and tormentor of Palmeiras in the most recent Club World Cup, will play friendlies in the USA against América de México and against Charlotte, which disputes the MLS (Major League Soccer).

Justin Ruderman did what all autograph seekers do. He approached the path athletes take when they leave training and waited, optimistic and anxious. He had two shirts in his hands.

Noticing his presence behind the big guard, Brazilian midfielder Jorginho, who has Italian citizenship and won the Euro 2021 with Squadra Azzurra, approached, already with a pen in his hand, and in a matter of seconds he left his mark. in clothes.

Here’s a lucky fan, right? No, on the contrary.

Justin was taken by surprise and couldn’t tell Jorginho that it wasn’t his signature that he wanted.

He wanted the autograph of a specific player, of his idol, the American Christian Pulisic, a colleague of Jorginho at Chelsea.

One of the shirts, with the number 10, belonged to the USA team. The other, with number 22, from Borussia Dortmund, the German team that Pulisic defended before moving to London. Both had the American player’s name above the numerals.

It remained for Justin to lament, in a tone of indignation, in a post on his account on a social network.

“I tried to get Pulisic to sign both USA and Dortmund shirts in Chelsea training. Instead, Jorginho surprisingly approached and immediately signed both without asking. I have no idea why. [fez isso]. My shirts are now ruined and I am very disappointed.”

Another fan asked why he didn’t stop the Italian-Brazilian from “ruining” the shirts, and Justin agreed that he should have acted that way, but that he was out of action at the time.

“I’m sorry I didn’t, but I was shocked. I didn’t expect this at all.”

If Justin can’t, with a wash, delete Jorginho’s signatures, they’ll be permanently where they never should have been.

And what should be remembered as a day of commemoration, which would have provided an achievement that would cause envy in acquaintances, will be remembered, only as an unfortunate day, of disgust, of mico.

But the narrative didn’t end there.

Justin posted on Thursday night (14) new information about the case. He returned three days later to the same place where he unintentionally collected Jorginho’s autographs.

The account of his misfortune somehow reached the Chelsea squad, and this time Pulisic went to him and added his signature to the shirts, telling his admirer, “Oh, so it was you!”

Justin will have to settle for having Jorginho’s name where he didn’t want to, but at least his idol’s is there too, and he even had the opportunity to meet the ace in person.

That is, a story with an ending, if not exactly happy, at least satisfying.