Australia goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne has been ridiculed in Peru since he denied the Peruvian national team qualification for the World Cup after helping his country win a penalty shootout during their June qualifier.
During the last meeting between the two teams to draw the qualifying role for the World Cup, the Australian goalkeeper managed to block the opponent’s ball, granting his country a visa to play in “Qatar 2022”.
Redmayne saved a final penalty kick by Peruvian Alex Valera, after he managed to distract the player by dancing and performing back and forth movements around the goal.
Since then, the Redmayne dance has become a laughing stock in Peru, with performers trying every time to laugh at the goalkeeper who prevented them from qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The last of these satires, witnessed a recent show in one of the circus halls, where clowns re-simulated the same incident, but in a ridiculous way from the Australian guard.
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Artists in Peru try to mimic Redmayne’s same movements, even his facial expressions, and his laughter, and they are keen to present their performance and install artificial beards to get closer to the image of the Australian goalkeeper.
In mid-August, Redmayne was also taunted by a clown during an entertaining period at a traditional Peruvian rodeo, which sees competition for cohesion on the backs of bulls.
A video clip showed the clown standing with his hands on his hips and expressions similar to Redmayne’s reaction when he saved his goal and took Australia to Qatar.
The clown was also dancing, trying to stop the bull carrying the usual goalkeeper goal in football fields, in another reference to the Australian national team’s den.
The Peruvians have not yet accepted the exclusion of their team from the World Cup next November, as supporters there were almost certain to qualify at the expense of Australia.
Prior to last June’s match, some charlatans held a spiritual ceremony in the hills of Lima in Peru to bring the curse of the Australian team and give their country the victory.
And the “witches”, according to the expression of the newspaper, Daily Mail The British engraved the image of the Australian team on one of the rocks, and performed a kind of “spiritual ritual” on it, to bring misfortune to the opposing team.