An Egyptian football player was subjected to a cruel prank with a huge monitor lizard in the middle of the desert.

Egyptian and English Stoke City footballer Ramadan Sobhi became the victim of a cruel prank on local television. The TV crew made it sound like the car in which Sobhi and his girlfriend were traveling began to sink into quicksand.

While they were thinking in horror about how to escape, a man in a realistic costume of a huge monitor lizard began to approach them.

The football player did not appreciate the joke and attacked one of the organizers