Colombia Captain James Rodriguez Annoys Fans With Rude Gesture

As captain of your country it's your role to best represent the players for the patriotic national fans and bring honour to the country in a sporting sphere, or some other nonsense like that. James Rodriguez definitely hasn't done that.

In England we get a little bit obsessed with who should captain our national team. Should it be Wayne Rooney when he can't get in the team, what about Jordan Henderson, Gary Cahill or Joey Barton? At this point we should just give it to the player with most caps on a game by game basis!

_{Gary Cahill considers life, the universe, death and of course the England captaincy. Image: PA Images.}

Really how much does a captain in football really do anyway? He gets to speak to the ref but then so do most players when the men in black so rarely take action for players surrounding them or giving them abuse, apart from in Sunday League football when a simple question can get you booked.

As all managers speaking in cliches will tell you they want 11 captains on the pitch at any time, so naming one just seems pretty pointless if you ask me.

_{James Rodriguez reacts to missing a shot, that's actually what's happening here- he really cares about Colombia! Image: PA Images.}

Colombia only have one captain that wears the armband and it is of course James Rodriguez. Despite the Real Madrid player being arguably their best player he has pissed Colombia fans off by giving photographers at the training ground the finger!

Rodriguez was showing his displeasure at journalists at the training ground ahead of the country's game against Ecuador on Tuesday night in the latest World Cup qualifier for 2018.

Colombia were criticised at the end of last week despite winning their last match. The team beat struggling Bolivia just 1-0, with Rodriguez grabbing the 83rd minute winner from the spot, but fans and the media weren't impressed.

And Rodriguez and co need to up their game as they play fifth place Ecuador away next week with Jose Pekerman's team level on points with Ecuador in fourth and only the top four countries in South America guarantee qualification to Russia.

Should the Real midfielder be punished?

Ryan Sidle

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