🚨🗣️NEW: Zlatan Ibrahimović on FIFA’s new mouth-covering red card rule: as Almiron was given a red card for covering his mouth in the game between Paraguay and Turkey
“I have seen football at its highest level, the real football. Not this watered-down version they are serving us now. What happened with Almirón? A straight red card for covering his mouth? This is not football anymore. This is a circus run by bureaucrats in suits who have never felt the fire of the pitch.”
“Covering your mouth is now a red card? What is this, Big Brother on the field? FIFA wants to read lips, punish thoughts before they even become words. Next they will put muzzles on players like dogs. Players cannot even talk, cannot even breathe passion without some VAR robot or referee deciding your emotions are illegal. This is dystopian. Football is dying.”
“This rule was born because some players cry every week. One incident in the Champions League and suddenly the whole world must change. But elbow a man, break his leg, or spit — sometimes you get a yellow and a pat on the back. Two-tier football. Protect the protected, punish the rest. I have played in every league and I have seen it.”
On the softness of the modern game:
“Maradona would be sent off in the tunnel. Roy Keane? He would laugh at the referee and walk off with a smile while the stands burn. Pepe would have collected five reds before half-time. Today? Players are becoming actors, not warriors. They fall, they cry, they hide behind rules. Where is the masculinity? Where is the character? Football is not ballet. It is war. And they are turning it into a polite conversation with red cards as punctuation.”
“I, Zlatan, have scored goals that made stadiums shake and said things that made opponents tremble — without hiding. This generation is being raised soft. If you cannot handle words on the pitch, how will you handle life? FIFA is not protecting football. They are burying it. And one day, the real fans will rise and say: enough. Bring back the game.”
@F1 This. These stats are the problem. We live in an era where success is measured in KPIs. Everything must be quantified, and decisions are justified with statistics warped to support our claims. We are trained not to believe what is right in front of our eyes.
@M416Stef@starsforyoongs Croatia would be nothing without Hungary, and vice versa. While Zrínyi knew this and fought for our unity, you're blinded by hate. Your argument falls apart when you realize your 'Slavic brothers' killed way more of your people than Huns ever did. You're dishonoring him.
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@DuhTaron@chriscbrown@rbrblis@humanmale1984 So he had more chance to be the winner, yet couldn't win more races than Verstappen? He is not as efficient? I mean yea I can see the points, I can see that he is the WDC. All I'm saying is that the "legend" and "most dominant, Verstappen prime beater" is a bullshit.
@chriscbrown@rbrblis@humanmale1984 I think if we go down that road it will never end. Was it Max's fault that he didn't get the championship? He never did a 0 by his own or the teams fault. He was knocked out by Kimi once. Lando was never knocked out by someone else. 8 pole, 8 win, most laps lead. Consistent?
@prancingwhores Yea, also the sound, slowing down, shifting is not in sync with the video. Plus I saw it live, sure as hell did not looked like this :D
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@overtakelizz@WorldHallOfFun@Uncommonsince76 Hmm that's a huge sample size, than this must be the case everywhere around the world. Especially places in Africa where there are no criminal gangs Oh and I almost forget that these places are famous for their accessibility to modern technology, and international media platforms