Soccer-Ukraine's Yarmolenko joins bottle bad boys at European Championship


Soccer Football - Euro 2020 - Group C - Ukraine v North Macedonia - National Arena, Bucharest, Romania - June 17, 2021 Ukraine's Andriy Yarmolenko celebrates scoring their first goal Pool via REUTERS/Robert Ghement

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Ukraine skipper Andriy Yarmolenko became the latest player at the European Championship to mess about with sponsors' drinks bottles at a post-match news conference on Thursday in a trend amusing social media users but disconcerting organisers.

Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo started the fad by moving aside bottles of Coca-Cola and pointedly grabbing water instead as he sat down to speak to the media on Monday.

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