An internet star is destroyed for outrageous behavior after the World Cup final. Who did he think he was?!
Argentine football players have come a long way to get the opportunity to touch the most important award in football at the end of the 2022 World Cup. Albiceleste captain Lionel Messi managed to lift the World Cup over his head only after the fifth tournament. Being a world-class star, until recently he did not have the moral right to even touch the trophy.
Against this background, the act of social media star Nusret Goekce looks even more wild and brazen. The cook simply spit on all moral principles, imagining himself equal to the champions.
And pissed off millions of fans around the world.
impudent cook
The FIFA World Cup is perhaps the most valuable trophy in modern sport. More than two hundred national teams begin to fight for it in the selection, 32 teams reach the final stage and only players of one get the opportunity to touch the main football prize with their bare hands once every four years! After enjoying the victory at the stadium, the athletes return the FIFA award, and they themselves go home with a bronze copy.
There is nothing surprising in the fact that interaction with the World Cup is limited to a very rigid framework. In addition to the world champions themselves and their close relatives, heads of state have the right to touch the football shrine – as a rule, we are talking about the leaders of the countries hosting the World Cup. Has the opportunity to pick up the FIFA President trophy. Of course, other people also interact with the World Cup. After all, someone has to transport it to official ceremonies, and just brush off the dust from time to time. However, in this case, rare lucky ones do the necessary manipulations with gloves.
In the finals of the 2022 World Cup, it was assumed that the rules for interacting with the trophy would also not be violated. Argentine football players received a valuable prize from the hands of the Emir of Qatar, and then enjoyed the victory in the company of their wives and children. However, Turkish chef Nusret Gokce, known to the general public for his deft salting of steaks, appeared on the horizon. And this character decided for some reason that no rules were written for him.
“Salt Guy” was not included in the championship team of Argentina, as well as in the composition of the previous winners of the world championships. He was not the emir of Qatar or the head of any of the recognized states. Gokce, it seems, was not a wife, mother or child of any of the Albiceleste players either. However, this did not prevent the extremely arrogant citizen from grabbing the Cup with his bare hands, and then kissing it with his lips!
The main face of the final
The 39-year-old Turkish restaurateur of Kurdish origin, chef, owner of a chain of steakhouses and just a butcher is a very famous person. Probably, in his professional activities, he can consider himself a kind of analogue of Lionel Messi. For a decade and a half, Goekce has come a long way to get closer to fame.
Once he mastered the basics of handling meat in Argentina, working on a voluntary basis. Now it can boast of an international chain of restaurants where all kinds of celebrities have visited: from Al Pacino to Diego Maradona. However, all these professional successes and even imaginary closeness to football stars did not give him any right to share a moment of glory with world champions.
Perhaps if Nusret remained just a good chef and a successful businessman, he did not dare to such madness. But media fame turned the culinary head. In 2017, Gokce recorded a series of videos where he really deftly handles meat, and overnight turned into a walking Internet meme, and at the same time into a social media star. Only a few years have passed, and the star chef is already importantly walking around the football field after the World Cup final, feeling almost like the main character.
Gokce boasted to his subscribers of a collection of photographs. Here is FIFA President Gianni Infantino pointedly pointing at a chef who looks at the world as if he had just won the UFC championship belt. Here Leandro Paredes repeats the signature gesture of the Turk, while the steak master himself examines the gold medal. But Nusret holds the hand of Lionel Messi, like an old friend. It is not yet clear for whom this is a great honor …
Photo: © Personal archive of Nusret Gokce
“Your place is in the kitchen”
In addition to the accounts of Nusret himself, there are other sources of information on social networks. Thanks to them, it was possible, for example, to see how an annoying Turk begs Leo to take a photo with him. Messi refused, and fair misunderstanding was read in his eyes. It’s easy to see how Nusret is digging into other Argentines celebrating with the World Cup.
Almost all of them were unenthusiastic about the cook’s attempts to grab the trophy, but, probably, out of politeness, they did not make a scandal. Unless the little son of Christian Romero was sincerely indignant when an unfamiliar citizen clutched at the golden Cup in front of his eyes. But not only little Romero did not like the behavior of the intruder. Commentators on social networks were not shy in their expressions, assessing what had happened:
Your place is in the kitchen, not on the field.
Who are you to lift this trophy? You are not from Argentina, not from families of footballers. And I highly doubt you’re such a close friend of theirs.
– In the photo you can see the very bottom of this World Cup.
“But how can they put up with this smoke seller taking credit for others?”
Argentines were especially outraged on social networks. But Nusret’s compatriots were also not too happy with the act, although he, perhaps, became the first Turk to touch the World Cup with his bare hands.
“We Turks are ashamed of this man. We are sorry.
“A man who cooks stupid steaks and sells them at unreasonably high prices … How did he manage to get there and what is he doing there?
How did this clown manage to get so close to the players?
– What a disrespectful act towards the players. I would have kicked him in the same second.
Let’s cancel this guy.