Everton linked with midfielder who went viral for brandishing corner flag during huge brawl
Everton-linked player Angelo Preciado once ‘starred’ in an online video that went viral, showing him wielding a corner flag at enraged opponents. During David Moyes’ first spell in charge at Goodison Park, Blues supporters used to lap up fan favourite Tim Cahill’s goal celebrations when the Australia international would punch the corner flag.
But Preciado’s incredible act certainly puts the current side’s post-match brawl at Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday into perspective.
Tuttosport and Bolavip have both stated that Everton are in for the Ecuador international, who has been capped 44 times for his country. Reports claim that the Blues are set to launch a £5million bid for the right-sided player who can operate as either a full-back or winger.
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The 26-year-old has been in Europe since January 2021, spending two-and-a-half seasons in Belgium with Genk before joining Czech side Sparta Prague for €2.5million in September 2023.
However, it was back in February 2018 when playing in his homeland for Independiente del Valle against Uruguayan side River Plate Montevideo that Preciado had his most infamous moment.
The incident occurred in the semi-finals of the Under-20s edition of the Copa Libertadores on February 21, 2018.
As Bolivian referee Ivo Mendez blew for full-time, with Preciado’s side having triumphed 3-2 in their opponents’ home city, a fracas ensued, and several River Plate players chased after him.
However, having been able to escape the pack, he made a bee line for the corner flag, pulling it out of the ground and the tables were quickly turned as he brandished it like a spear towards his would-be attackers.
Moyes once compared trying to compete with Sheikh Mansour petrodollar-fuelled revolution at the Etihad Stadium as like "taking a knife to a gun fight" but in the previous year to his extreme reaction, Preciado revealed in a newspaper interview he dreamed of playing one day for Manchester City while his dad Miguel, who at the time was in prison, watched him from the stands.
