Los Angeles Galaxy, “turkey shoot” for – La Gazzetta dello Sport – La Gazzetta dello Sport

On Saturday a hapless New York pigeon has chosen the wrong time to do the usual stroll on the field of Yankee Stadium: the field there were in fact the Los Angeles Galaxy players for the pre-game warm-up, it was thus transformed into a real “turkey shoot”, with the poor bird centered in the middle of the return pass of Jelle Van Damme to Ashley Cole. It now remains to see how the blow was intentional, although the general feeling – increased by that “They killed him!” ( “They killed him!”) Is that Van Damme has deliberately tried to hit the innocent pigeon and , he caught, it is then realized the stupidity committed, so as to give himself relief to the wounded bird, handing it in the locker room, as he later told the journalist Adam Serrano on Sun

tHE BACKGROUND – it is unknown if the pigeon has survived the blow, but there is no doubt that Van Damme and Cole went well (much less so to Galaxy, defeated by New York for 1 to 0 with a goal from David Villa): if someone in the audience had called the police to report the incident, the two could have been found in handcuffs, as happened in 1983 to baseball champion Dave Winfield, arrested on charges of cruelty to animals for killing a seagull during heating before the game between the New York Yankees and Toronto (it was released after the payment of $ 500 and the charges were later withdrawn). Another similar incident happened in 2001 instead of the pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Randy Johnson: on that occasion to losing your skin (in every sense) was a dove, shot to death on the 7th of the challenge inning against the San Francisco Giants.