😮 From scapegoat to fan favourite: Cucurella with another classy act | OneFootball

In Germany, people generally do not like to remember the man who got away with an unpunished handball in the penalty area in the quarter-final of the home Euros two years ago. The penalty that should rightly have been awarded was not given, and Germany were knocked out.

In recent days and weeks, however, Marc Cucurella has repeatedly made positive headlines, and not solely because of his outstanding performances for world champions Spain at the World Cup.

Now the 28-year-old has delivered his next act that you simply have to celebrate.

Before joining his new club Real, he shared his World Cup triumph with someone he likely got to know quite literally over the garden fence during his time at Chelsea in recent years.

According to a report by The Sun, Cucurella chatted with his postman Gary about the final victory and even let him hold the winner’s medal.

According to the report, the postman shared photos of the moment online and wrote: “Had the pleasure today of chatting with local world champion Marc Cucurella while delivering the mail.”

He added that Cucurella was a nice, down-to-earth guy and that he was especially delighted by the gesture with the winner’s medal: “I think I’m the first Englishman in 60 years to hold a World Cup winner’s medal.”

He also posted a photo of the medal around his neck as well as a selfie of the two of them.

Fans praised the Spanish international heavily for it. And slowly but surely, we probably have to ask ourselves whether even the German fans might finally be able to forgive him for what happened in that quarter-final two years ago.

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