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'Dying'! UK fitness model takes heat 'like a boss' after similarly-named Brazilian scores own goal

The 2014 World Cup kicked off today, and Brazil’s Marcelo Vieira had the honor of scoring the first goal. Unfortunately, it was an own goal. Whoops.

Needless to say, some people were pretty pissed about it, and they took to Twitter to slap Marcelo around. But as it turns out, they made a pretty big blunder of their own:

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Yeah … they got the wrong guy. See, that’s Marcello Ferri, a London-based fitness model. And even though he had nothing to do with Brazil’s mistake, he still got punished for it. Quite harshly, in fact:

https://twitter.com/_JasrajSanghera/status/477192727936118784
https://twitter.com/CuteNiggerDavid/status/477182416726286337

It didn’t take long for others to jump on the bandwagon, both in genuine anger and in jest:

https://twitter.com/calhuntington/statuses/477191043558150144


https://twitter.com/calhuntington/status/477191043558150144
https://twitter.com/RollsReus/status/477189011480805376
https://twitter.com/JordaanBroown/status/477191363612921856


https://twitter.com/SpeijderMan/status/477192865248854018

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https://twitter.com/Bilaaaaaal187/status/477193446844018688

Dude.

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/477193713803067392

Totes hilarious.


https://twitter.com/MJBreezyMarsian/status/477194532501872640


https://twitter.com/Conman__/status/477194258295042048


https://twitter.com/ageannn/status/477188850801188864

He’s definitely been having fun with it:

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That’s how it’s done.

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