Gervinho had a private plane waiting to take him from the Ivory Coast, where he played for the national team, to Roma, where he had to join back up with his club. It was simple -- he and a pilot making the flight and getting the player back.

That is until Gervinho tried to smuggle a woman onto the flight.

When the Ivorian showed up for the flight, he had a girl with him. He reportedly bribed four members of the airport staff to let the girl past security, which they did, and then tried to convince the pilot to let her on. But the pilot said no and the woman was left at Felix Houphouet Boigny Airport, while the four staff members were all fired.

There is no word yet on whether Gervinho will face any punishment for his role in the incident, or how he could possibly be punished because this isn't exactly a common footballer problem.





In his defence to be fair

this guys lack of brain goes beyond football

Gervais you legend

Come back to Arsenal, all is forgiven mon frere

What was the problem with letting the woman fly with her? She didn't have a password / visa?

I dunno, seems pretty minor to me. Feel sorry for those staff that got fired.

why would you feel bad for the staff.. they took a bribe and got punished for it.
if they didn't want to get fired they shouldn't of taken the money.

This pilot has not a romantic bone in him ffs.
The girl was feeling like in a movie when Gervinho looked her in the eyes and said with determination: "Go away with me! Let's run away, right now. I've got a private plane waiting that will bring us to the Ivory Coast"

Hapless_Hans wrote:This pilot has not a romantic bone in him ffs.
The girl was feeling like in a movie when Gervinho looked her in the eyes and said with determination: "Go away with me! Let's run away, right now. I've got a private plane waiting that will bring us to the Ivory Coast"

they were already in Cote d'ivoire

i'm pretty sure that " smuggling "someone from italy to Civ would've flown under the radar

ah right damn. I misread that.

I thought he was taking a girl with him on his trip to the national team for recreational purposes.

lmfao wtf

Strange.

Plot twist

She was a drug mule

What does he need such a giant forehead for if his brain has the size of chickpeas? What a waste of ressources.

Kinda wish the pilot had let her get on the plane with him....whatever she was gonna do with him may have made him play better than he did last night.