River Plate recognised Marcelo Gallardo as the most successful coach in the club's history with the unveiling of a statue at the weekend, but a prominent bulge in the crotch area of the huge bronze has attracted as much mockery as veneration.
The towering statue, which is eight metres tall and weighs 6.3 tonnes, stands outside the Monumental Stadium and depicts a famous image of Gallardo lifting one of the two Copa Libertadores trophies he won with the Buenos Aires club.
"I exaggerated that part and I understood that it has to do with a gesture towards the fans," told the Argentine newspaper La Nacion. Savall said the special feature of the statue had been requested by the official overseeing the project, who wanted something similar to the sculpture of the Charging Bull in New York's Wall Street.
"This is football, fans always ask the players and the manager to 'put a lot of eggs into it' and it was like a subliminal message through the sculpture," Savall added to the Infobae website.
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