There are certain situations in life where you cannot get away with stealing an extremely prestigious football medal.
And this undoubtedly includes when you are standing right next to the Russian president just after an explosive World Cup final.
However, shocked fans would have sworn on the bible they spotted a Fifa official doing just this and couldn’t believe what they were seeing…
This woman steals a World Cup winners medal and laughs it off like nothing happened! #WorldCupFinal pic.twitter.com/qIzQZqG4J9
— Armchair Sports (@armchairsports_) July 15, 2018
The presentation was in full swing, with Vladimir Putin in full meme mode as he managed to bag the one gigantic brolly on a apocolyptically wet day in Moscow.
Those receiving medals from both sides were soaked through to the skin, hair plastered to their faces as a comfortably dry Vlad lowered medals around their shivering necks.
On first watch, we were all preoccupied with who was receiving which medal and why. And – of course – the sight of French president Emmanuel Macron and Croatian president Kolinda Grabar looking like soggy cats next to Big Brolly Putin.
Therefore, many of us completely failed to notice the smartly dressed woman with short blonde hair whispering in Mr Putin’s ear. And then, as casual as you like, slipping a medal into her blazer pocket.
Woman steals world cup medal!!!#FifaWorldCupFinal pic.twitter.com/MTYzI0kILY
— King Penuel Mlotshwa (@penzoid) July 16, 2018
The woman can then be seen chuckling in the downpour, as if delighted her dastardly plan was all coming together. Surely she couldn’t be brazen?
The drama of the match forgotten, fans took to Twitter to try and figure out what was going on.
Some thought she was planning to eBay the treasure later, while some even speculated she was pinching the medal for President Putin himself as some sort of high end gift shop souvenir.
This may sound far fetched, but Putin was actually suspected of doing this with a $25,000 Super Bowl ring from the Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft back in 2005.
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