The joys of winning leave some feeling they can do whatever they want. After all, being on Cloud Nine can do that as emotions get the best of some people.
One of those people is UCONN soccer player Noriana Radwan. After a thrilling 3-2 victory over USF in penalty kicks in the American Athletic Conference title, deadspin.com captured the freshman from Wappingers Falls, New York flipping off the camera after the victory.
Radwan has been indefinitely suspended following the gesture and will not participate in the school's NCAA College Cup games this upcoming week. Radwan didn’t play in the game Sunday, but has 9 appearances throughout the season equalling 102 minutes. Head coach Len Tsantiris issues this statement:
"The University of Connecticut and its women's soccer program would like to apologize for an inappropriate gesture a UConn student-athlete made to an ESPNU camera following today's American Athletic Conference championship game. In particular, we apologize to the American Athletic Conference, our opponent and host school USF and to the members of the television audience. The gesture showed poor judgment and sportsmanship and does not represent what we want our program and University to stand for. The issue has already been addressed by the coaching staff to the student-athlete. The student-athlete has been indefinitely suspended from all team activities, including participation in UConn's upcoming NCAA tournament games."
In reality, Radwan probably wasn’t going to be used much in the upcoming tournament, but it is still a hilarious situation - especially since a moment of joy spurred the gesture. Surely it is a moment she'll wish she had back, but we all make mistakes (especially as freshman in college). Here are some other famous instances where athletes let their hand do the talking, whether they meant it in a bad way or not.
Sometimes it can be an accident or even a joke - a.k.a. "The Charles Barkley":
Sometimes you completely mean it and you could care less what people think - a.k.a. "The Johnny Manziel":
Sometimes, certain people can just get away with it - a.k.a. "The Mike Ditka"
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