🚨🗣️NEW: Thierry Henry 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 understand why football wants to fight discrimination. Nobody disagrees with that. But when you start handing out straight red cards because a player covered his mouth while speaking, you’ve crossed into dangerous territory.
“This is exactly what I feared football was becoming, a game played by robots, policed by suits who’ve never felt the heat of a tackle or the fire of a 50-50. Miguel Almirón gets sent off for covering his mouth? In a World Cup? FIFA calls it progress. I call it the slow death of the sport we love.
Football was built on emotion, confrontation, mind games, personality. Now we’re acting as if every private word exchanged on a pitch is a matter for a courtroom investigation. The game is starting to feel less like football and more like a surveillance project.
The Miguel Almirón incident is exactly why people are uncomfortable. We don’t even know what was said, yet the punishment arrives before the evidence. Since when did covering your mouth become a crime worthy of expulsion? If that’s the standard, we’re no longer judging actions—we’re judging suspicion.
What worries me most is the precedent. Today it’s covering your mouth. Tomorrow what is it? A sarcastic comment? A heated argument? Football has always been a pressure cooker. If you remove every ounce of fire, don’t be surprised when the sport loses part of its soul.
And let’s be honest, would the legends of previous generations survive in this environment? Maradona, Keane, Pepe, half the icons people celebrate today would spend more time explaining themselves to officials than actually playing. The game that once rewarded personality now seems obsessed with policing it.
The irony is that football claims to want authenticity, yet it keeps creating rules that encourage players to become robots. Fans don’t fall in love with robots. They fall in love with characters, rivalries, passion and drama.
This rule may have been created with good intentions, but good intentions don’t automatically make good rules. Right now, it feels like football is trying to put a lid on a boiling pot instead of understanding why it boils in the first place.”
"La infancia que tuviste puede explicar tu pasado, pero solo tus decisiones y tu esfuerzo definen tu presente. Culpar a los padres o a la vida de grandes es maduro de palabra, pero de chicos en la práctica. Toca hacerse cargo."
En Estados Unidos, la izquierda mato al único tipo que estaba dispuesto a debatir con ellos cuando sea y donde sea. Es más, lo mataron debatiendo.
Por lo que leo, parece que la etapa del debate se termino. Van con todo.
HUÍA SIN PAGAR 🔴
➡️ Un conductor fue reducido por trabajadores de una estación de servicios en el barrio Vista Alegre de Asunción después de ser reconocido como el mismo hombre que había huido de otras gasolineras.
⛽ En esta oportunidad, un trabajador del lugar lo identificó cuando ingresó al local para realizar compras.
📹 Gentileza.
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