A bizarre petition calling for World Cup winner Julian Alvarez to split up with his girlfriend has received over 20,000 signatures.
The Argentine forward returned to Manchester City’s training ground this week earlier than expected despite being given additional time to celebrate his World Cup triumph by Pep Guardiola.
Alvarez helped Argentina to a third World Cup win over in Qatar, scoring four times as La Albiceleste went all the way and beat France on penalties.
But the 22-year-old has recently been the subject of an extremely unusual petition set up. One fan took to Change.Org to demand Alvarez split up with his other half Emilia Ferrero, who hails from the same village as Alvarez.
Alvarez was paraded in his hometown of Calachin, 65 miles from Cordoba, while perched on the roof of a fire engine. The manic celebrations saw over 10,000 people descend on the small town.
At one point during the partying, Emilia was filmed preventing the baby-faced Alvarez from posing for a photo with a group of adoring young fans. And one raging supporter vented his fury by launching an online petition calling on Alvarez to dump the gorgeous brunette.
That riled up some folks online and a petition titled, “Julian, break up with Mary Jane”, was set up, as per The Mirror.
‘Mary Jane’, the name of Spiderman’s love interest, is referring to the fact the former River Plate forward is nicknamed ‘La Arana’ – which translates to ‘The Spider’.
20,000 people signed it but it doesn’t look like Alvarez will be listening to the outside noise as he posted a picture of him and his girlfriend enjoying the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Manchester.
Alvarez signed for City in a £14 million move and has scored seven and assisted two in 20 appearances in all competitions for Pep Guardiola’s side.
