Petition Calling For City Star Julian Alvarez To Dump Girlfriend Hit 20,000 Signatures

A bizarre petition calling for Manchester City's Julian Alvarez to dump his girlfriend has surpassed 20,000 signatures.

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.

It came after a video where a group of youngsters asked for Alvarez's signature went viral. Emilia, who plays hockey and has 177,000 followers on Instagram, appeared to only let the fans take a group picture.

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.

Source: Sportbible