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An Argentine footballer's bad luck with cars has continued after his brand new Ferrari was reduced to a pile of smouldering metal after it caught fire as he drove to training.

Ever Banega, 24, was on his way to pre-season training with his Spanish club Valencia yesterday when he noticed smoke blowing from the back of his $290,000 360 Italia sports car, as.com reports.

It was reportedly the first day Banega had driven the car.

He quickly exited the vehicle and went to the Valencia training ground where he tried to collect water to extinguish the blaze.

"These things happen, once again it's happened to Banega," Valencia player Pablo Hernandez said at a press conference.

"He hasn't had the best of luck lately, it's been a shock for him but the important thing is he left the car unscathed."

The Ferrari was abandoned in the middle of a narrow road, blocking access to the training grounds and forcing his teammates to get there on foot.

Banega escaped unharmed this time but in February he broke his ankle when he forgot to apply the handbrake as he filled his car with petrol and it rolled backwards on him.

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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8508542/fire-destroys-footballers-new-ferrari

I would suspect the glue they use caught fire.
 
That is very unfortunate that his car failed him on the first day of driving it. If this isn't classed as pure bad luck then I don't know what is.
 
MSTER232
That is very unfortunate that his car failed him on the first day of driving it. If this isn't classed as pure bad luck then I don't know what is.
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Not just that but also this in February he broke his ankle when he forgot to apply the handbrake as he filled his car with petrol and it rolled backwards on him.

Is it a Ferrari 360 as well?
 
If I were Valencia, I'd hire him a chauffeur.
 
eSZee
What's a 360 Italia? How is a 10 year old car BRAND NEW?
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Maybe brand new as in the sense it just came out of the factory? It would like me getting a blueprint for an old car and building it. It would be new in the sense of it just being build, but old in the sense as the original design was from a long time ago.
 
The picture is very clearly a 360 Modena, so unless the story has grabbed a random picture off the internet, it's neither an "Italia", nor is it "new". Maybe new to the footballer, in the same way "look at my new car" can mean "look at the 1999 xxx I just bought".
 
It's probably a random photo grabbed for the story.

Still, sucks for him. And worrying for Ferrari since another 458 caught fire. I'll blame sheer Spanish heat for this one though.
 
sumbrownkid
It's probably a random photo grabbed for the story.

Still, sucks for him. And worrying for Ferrari since another 458 caught fire. I'll blame sheer Spanish heat for this one though.
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WHy does it say "Banega's Ferrari ablaze." under the picture?
 
Grayfox
That is a footer, you could put eSZee's ferrari if you got to the HTML code.
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So they used 2 pics of the same 360, while burning and after fire was put out, that didn't belong to the footballer who the article is about? There's half a dozen or more other pics from various articles stating that was his 360.
 
New revelation: It was actually a VW golf! Really, though, WHAT KIND OF FERRARI WAS IT? Sorry for the screaming, but it annoys me that the author couldn't be bothered to check what kind of car caught fire, or proofread the article.

I do feel sorry for the footballer, it has to suck seeing a Ferrari turn into a fireball.
 
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An Argentine footballer's bad luck with cars has continued after his brand new Ferrari was reduced to a pile of smouldering metal after it caught fire as he drove to training.

Ever Banega, 24, was on his way to pre-season training with his Spanish club Valencia yesterday when he noticed smoke blowing from the back of his $290,000 360 Italia sports car, as.com reports.

It was reportedly the first day Banega had driven the car.

He quickly exited the vehicle and went to the Valencia training ground where he tried to collect water to extinguish the blaze.

"These things happen, once again it's happened to Banega," Valencia player Pablo Hernandez said at a press conference.

"He hasn't had the best of luck lately, it's been a shock for him but the important thing is he left the car unscathed."

The Ferrari was abandoned in the middle of a narrow road, blocking access to the training grounds and forcing his teammates to get there on foot.

Banega escaped unharmed this time but in February he broke his ankle when he forgot to apply the handbrake as he filled his car with petrol and it rolled backwards on him.

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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8508542/fire-destroys-footballers-new-ferrari

I would suspect the glue they use caught fire.
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his only car to buy is a fiat 500
 

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