“He has 6 fingers. It stops almost everything”: Italian media recall Guillermo Ochoa’s meme to praise him for his good performance in Serie A

Guillermo Ochoa did a great job last tuesday Kit, when he held off numerous attacks from Milan and saved a point for salernitana enduring the final 1-1, so his speech did not go unnoticed by the Italian press and one of the most famous sports publications in the country praised him in a rather peculiar way.

La Gazzetta dello Sport commented on the match and stressed that ochoa practically Denied victory to the opponent, since that was a factor in the draw because he made at least two clean shots on goal, one of them in the last stretch of the match against a shot from Zlatan that if he had hit the goal, Salernitan would no longer be given time to recovery. For this They alluded to the well-known legend of the “six fingers” of the goalkeeper.

“Ochoa for almost everything, one of the evenings when he has six fingers: cancel Origi, Teo, Ibrain honor of the two fans who arrived wearing his shirt, gloves and wig,” the newspaper wrote.

Thanks to this show Ochoa and Salernitana have three matches without defeat, despite being a modest team that started the campaign by fighting for relegation. Salernitana are currently in 16th place in the league, 7 points above the red zone, so the goal is achieved so far. Their next game will be on Saturday 18 March at home against Bologna.

Why is Guillermo Ochoa said to have six fingers?

In a recent interview with the same newspaper that congratulated him this time, Paco Memo said this a few days ago.before his first exit from Liga MX heading to Europe, was about to sign with Olympiacos and that he believes the April Fool’s joke in Mexico stopped negotiationsgiven that A fabricated image circulated in which the goalkeeper assumes he has 6 fingers, and this became a strong rumor in Greece that Ochoa suffered from polydactyly. in his hand, that is, he had more fingers than usual.

“It was a rumor that had spread throughout Greece at the time when it looked like he was going to get to Olympiacos. December 28 is April Fool’s Day in Mexico. Newspapers amuse themselves by making up news, and one of them mentioned me and my supposed six fingers on one hand. In my country, they laughed at it, not in Greece, and that is how the legend was born, ”Paco Memo said in an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport.