World Cup-Sized Crowd Invades Tiny Soccer Game A video
by Luke McKinney 11,088 110 06/21/2010 10:34 AM 4718 views
You know that the World Cup crowds are in South Africa, watching football and inexplicably not throttling Vuvuzela-blowers to death. That's why the incomparable prankster Remi Gaillard brought a World Cup to the south of France: it's the last thing they were expecting.
Coachloads of terrifyingly dedicated fans descended on the unsuspecting spectators at Le Cres FC, a tired little regional game. Unfortunately, football fans aren't the most stable souls, especially when they've been provoked for a stupid stunt, so the unfortunate game descended into a madness of smoke and streakers.
Before football was invented, face-painting and organized chanting meant you were invading a country, and this prank wasn't much different, ending in a massive pitch invasion that shut down the game entirely.
Whether this was a prank gone wrong, or a terrifyingly accurate parody of real sports fans remains unknown. Either way: hilarious.
This is the hardest I've laughed all day. Seeing the overweight streaker hit the field was comedy gold, especially since no one even bothered to chase him.
I couldn't figure out why the camera cut away right after the streaker scored a goal. Then I realized what happens if he throws up his arms in victory.
I looked at other prank videos by this guy and realized that it's the same guy who pulled an amazing stunt on French football a few years ago. This was before Youtube even existed; back then, going viral meant you had to get on TV and this person succeeded in a big way.
In 2002, at the end of the final game of the Coupe de France, Remi Gaillard put on a jersey of the winning team of Lorient and sneaked past security to be among the players as they went in the stands to receive the trophy. Remi's jersey wasn't even the exact same one as the ones the players were wearing, and he was wearing white running shoes instead of soccer cleats, yet he managed to hoist the cup with the players and shake hands with the French president, who congratulated him for his performance during the game. He then went down to the field, celebrated with the players, gave an interview on TV and signed autographs.
You know a stunt like that is a success when its author receives more media exposure than the team who won the Cup.
The video below comes from a French talk show; it's all in French, but it is pretty easy to follow.
The first clip with the green gang my comment is that they all must have had their wheaties for breakfast! "It is the breakfast of Champions."
The second clip with the guy wearing the orange jumpsuit and racing around like he just won a personal team victory--at first it seems like he was a part of the team but then it quickly becomes like a delusional stalker on the brink of insanity and people are shocked and disallusioned what to do with a man that is acting so outrageously out of his wacked mind. I think he was thinking everyone was there for him and it was his show. Some were actually mindless to get his autograph. What's up with that?
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