Frederick Damanik

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[Frederick Damanik @Fredericdamanik]

Melihat Series #SpongebobSquarepants dari kacamata orang dewasa.

[Inside Reality Football @RealityLfc]

🚨Wayne Rooney on the false penalty against Egypt vs Argentina.

🗣️“It’s really disappointing to see the VAR keep mute on the decision there, in a crucial game like this and there’s still favorites in the game.”

“A lot of Argentine and Lionel Messi fans won’t like what I’m saying but that’s the fact to be discussed here in today’s game.”

“This shouldn’t have been a penalty but the world and every Egyptian fan is glad after the miss. It’s just so bad to see this happen in to the African nations, especially in a decisive game like this.”

[SethOfficial @UTD_Seth001]

🚨Fabio Capello on the officiating in Argentina vs Egypt:

🗣️ “I have no problem accepting defeat when the better team wins.

What I cannot accept is inconsistency.

Egypt scored a goal that looked perfectly legitimate, yet VAR searched every possible angle until it found a reason to rule it out. Later, when Egypt were asking for major decisions inside Argentina’s penalty area, that same level of investigation disappeared. That is what frustrates players, coaches and supporters.

Football is built on trust. If one incident deserves three minutes of review, then every major incident deserves the same attention. You cannot apply one standard to one team and a different standard to another. That is where people begin to question the integrity of the decisions.

Argentina have world-class players. Nobody doubts that. Messi, Martínez and the rest have enough quality to win matches on their own. But when controversial decisions repeatedly fall in one direction, it becomes impossible to ignore the conversation. Egypt earned the right to lose because Argentina were better—not because the biggest moments seemed to be interpreted differently.

The saddest part is that tonight people will remember the referee more than the football. Egypt leave with disappointment, but also with unanswered questions. And whenever supporters spend more time discussing officiating than the players, football itself has failed.”

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨New: Gianni Infantino looks STRESSED with Argentina losing

[JustBizarreFooty | B @JBFootyX]

🚨🎙️| Zlatan Ibrahimović on Argentina eliminating Egypt from the World Cup:

🗣️“I’m a big fan of Messi, but let’s be real for once. This feels like pure robbery. Every controversial decision somehow goes Argentina’s way. FIFA keeps acting like they want Messi to lift every trophy possible. At this point, it’s becoming too obvious. Egypt deserved more from that game, but when the biggest football organization in the world has its favorite, what can you do?”

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Pepe on the controversial officiating decisions in Egypt and Argentina game, Messi and Argentina are being favored:

“Today the whole world watched the same match.

Egypt scored a perfectly good goal, celebrated it, earned it, and then VAR suddenly turned into a time machine. They went so far back looking for a reason to disallow it that I thought they were reviewing the pyramids being built.

That is my first question.

If VAR can travel that far into the past to cancel Egypt’s goal, why could it not travel five seconds into the future when Egypt were screaming for penalties?

Funny, no? One team gets forensic investigation. The other gets silence.

Egypt were leading. Egypt were controlling the game. Egypt were making Argentina uncomfortable. Then came the intervention that changed everything.

The disallowed goal.

The moment that shifted the entire momentum of the match.

And after that? Two penalty appeals. Two. Not one. Two opportunities for the officials to show consistency.

Nothing. No urgency. No transparency. No explanation that convinced anybody.

Then Argentina go down the other end and score the winner.

Football is a game of moments. The referee’s team decided which moments deserved attention and which moments deserved to disappear.

People tell me Argentina showed champion mentality. I agree.

But champion mentality and controversial officiating are not mutually exclusive things, Both can exist at the same time. What I cannot accept is the inconsistency.

When Egypt scored, VAR searched every grain of sand in the desert looking for a foul.

When Egypt asked for penalties, suddenly everybody became blind. That is why the Egyptian bench exploded. That is why cards were flying everywhere. That is why millions of fans left the stadium angry instead of simply disappointed.

Because losing to Argentina is one thing. Feeling like the rules changed depending on who benefited is another.

And this is what football fans hate the most. Not defeat. Not mistakes. Selective scrutiny.

The feeling that one decision was examined with a microscope while another was viewed from outer space.

Maybe Argentina would still have won. Maybe they would not. We will never know. Because the game was not allowed to reach its natural conclusion.

Instead, Egypt leave the World Cup with questions.

Questions about the disallowed goal, Questions about the ignored penalty appeals, Questions about consistency, Questions about why VAR looked like a sword against one team and a shield for another.

And when football leaves people talking more about the officials than the players, that is not a victory for the sport.

That is a failure.

Today Egypt lost 3-2 on the scoreboard.

But the debate over what really happened will win headlines for much longer than Argentina’s comeback.”

[Darren @MUFCDarren_]

🚨 José Mourinho on Argentina vs. Egypt:

“This is daylight robbery. It’s a shame what football is becoming. How do you let the play continue, allow the goal to be scored, and only then decide to go back and cancel it? If there was a foul, stop the game immediately. Don’t wait until after the goal.

Then I ask another question—why wasn’t Argentina’s first goal reviewed with the same attention when it looked very close to offside? Why was every incident involving Argentina checked, while Egypt didn’t seem to get the same treatment?

VAR is supposed to bring fairness, not confusion. Today, it looked like every important decision went in Argentina’s favour. Football deserves better.”

[MatchReport @MatchReportH]

🚨🇦🇷🇪🇬 Rio Ferdinand: “Football Needs Fairness, Not Different Rules For Different Teams”

🗣️ “I’ve sat here and watched football for many years, both as a player and as a pundit, and what frustrates supporters the most is inconsistency.

When Argentina go down under a challenge, the whistle seems to come immediately. The officials are quick to spot the foul, quick to stop play and quick to protect them. But when Egypt are on the receiving end of similar incidents, suddenly the game is allowed to continue and everyone is told to move on.

That’s the issue people have tonight. Not the result itself, but the lack of consistency in the decision-making.

Then you look at the build-up to Enzo Fernández’s winning goal. Egypt were screaming for a foul, their players were surrounding the referee, and millions watching expected VAR to at least take a proper look at it. Instead, it felt like everyone in the VAR room had gone to sleep.

What exactly is VAR there for if not to review the biggest moments in the biggest matches?

If that incident happened against Argentina at the other end of the pitch, do you honestly believe it wouldn’t have been checked? I find that very difficult to believe. We’ve seen much softer incidents reviewed throughout this tournament.

That’s where the frustration comes from. Fans just want the same standard applied to every team.

And let’s talk about the disciplinary side of the game. Argentina seem to get away with an awful lot. There are challenges that would normally bring yellow cards, yet the referee appears reluctant to reach for his pocket. It’s almost as if officials are afraid of making decisions that might upset Argentina.

When you look at some of Argentina’s matches in this tournament, there have been several moments where opponents felt hard done by. One incident can be debated, two incidents can be debated, but eventually people start noticing a pattern.

Football cannot afford that perception. The integrity of the game depends on supporters believing that every nation is treated equally.

Whether you’re Argentina, Egypt, Brazil, France or anyone else, the laws of the game should not change depending on the badge on your shirt.

The officials tonight had a responsibility to be fair, balanced and brave. Instead, they have left millions of people questioning why some decisions are given so easily for one side while similar incidents involving the other side are ignored.

Football deserves better than that. The players deserve better than that. And the fans certainly deserve better than that.”

#ARGEGY

[SethOfficial @UTD_Seth001]

🚨Javier Zanetti on Argentina’s penalty against Egypt:

🗣️ “For me, that is never a penalty.

I’ve watched it several times, and I still don’t understand what the defender is supposed to do differently. There is minimal contact, both players are competing for the ball, and the Egyptian defender doesn’t make a reckless challenge. Football is becoming very dangerous when incidents like that are enough to decide matches.

The referee has to understand the context. This is the World Cup, not a training session. Every little touch inside the box cannot become a penalty. If that’s the standard now, defenders may as well stop tackling altogether because every attacker will be looking for the slightest contact.

I know people will say, ‘There was contact.’ Of course there was. Football is a contact sport. The question isn’t whether there was contact—the question is whether the contact was enough to bring the player down unfairly. In my opinion, it wasn’t. The attacker was already looking for the decision before the challenge was even completed.

I feel for Egypt because they had worked incredibly hard to stay organised against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. To see all that effort threatened by a decision like this is frustrating. These are the moments that leave players and supporters wondering whether football is rewarding good defending or simply rewarding players who know how to sell a situation.

I don’t like seeing games of this magnitude decided by soft penalties. Let the football decide the match. Let quality decide the match. Don’t let a decision like that become the biggest talking point.”

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Penalty to Messi misses
ArPentina the penalty

[The Touchmine | 𝐓 @TouchmineX]

🚨LIVE: There's a petition on the internet demanding the resignation of Gianni Infantino for his corruption and favouritism for Argentina! 😳

Argentina has simply robbed Cape Verde and Egypt in the World but their is no action against the refrees. ❌

Is he the cancer to football? 🤔

[ᜰ 🇦🇷 @markklfc]

Roy Keane on The referee disallowing Egypt’s goal after a VAR review:

🗣️ “I don’t agree with that decision at all. That’s a World Cup knockout game, and you’ve just wiped out a massive goal for something that, in my opinion, doesn’t justify overturning it. Football is becoming obsessed with finding reasons to disallow goals instead of rewarding attacking play.”

“The referee has made himself the biggest talking point of the match. If you’re going to cancel a goal in a moment this big, it has to be absolutely obvious. For me, that wasn’t clear enough. The players have done their job, and now they’re paying the price for another controversial VAR intervention.”

“This is exactly why fans get frustrated with VAR. Instead of talking about Egypt’s brilliant finish, everyone is debating the officials. Decisions like this can change the entire course of a World Cup, and if they’ve got this one wrong, it’s a decision that will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.”

[كأس العالم™ @TrendEPL]

🚨🗣 الحكم السابق في البريميرليغ غراهام سكوت:

" قرار إلغاء هدف مصر غير صحيح. التحام عطية مع ليساندرو مارتينيز في بداية الهجمة التي سبقت هدف زيكو كان احتكاكًا عاديًا ويجب اعتباره كذلك، وليس مخالفة. ـــــ كما أن الواقعة حدثت على بعد 100 ياردة من المرمى، وكان لدى الأرجنتين الوقت الكافي لإعادة تنظيم صفوفها والدفاع، لذلك من الطبيعي أن تشعر مصر بالظلم."

[ᜰ 🇦🇷 @markklfc]

Quaresma on the referee disallowing Egypt’s goal after a VAR review:

🗣️ “This is unbelievable. Egypt have been punished by a decision that will leave people talking for years. You work so hard to score on the biggest stage in football, and then it’s taken away after endless reviews. If that’s enough to cancel a goal, then we’re forgetting what football is supposed to be.”

“From what we’ve seen, Egypt will feel completely robbed. The referee has taken away one of the biggest moments in these players’ lives, and the frustration is impossible to ignore. Instead of celebrating a brilliant goal, they’re left wondering why the officials wanted to become the center of attention.”

“VAR was introduced to correct clear and obvious mistakes, not to search for tiny incidents until a goal disappears. Tonight, the officials have overshadowed the match. Egypt deserve answers, the fans deserve consistency, and football deserves better than another controversial decision dominating the headlines.”

[- @LMDiddy14]

The robbery against Egypt was even worse than the one against Cape Verde.

It reached the point where the players and coach openly called out Messi and Argentina for the blatant corruption.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[DREN!! @City_Dren]

🚨 Didier Drogba Blasts VAR Decision in Egypt vs Argentina:

I finally believe Argentina always find the easiest route to progress in the World Cup, and VAR made it obvious tonight.

Thank God VAR didn’t exist in our era. Look at the beautiful run from Hassan and Salah to create that chance - where was the referee then? Was the whistle missing from his hands? He only woke up after they scored.

You could see the reaction from FIFA President Gianni Infantino. I guess he wished he could reverse the second goal by Zizo.

The funny thing is that some fans are already saying Argentina is playing in the African Cup of Nations because they’ve faced mostly African teams since the start of the tournament. But I think yes, they have - and they’re experiencing it well, because Egypt won tonight for me.

Sometimes I blame African teams for not holding onto their leads until the final whistle, but how can they when the referee and VAR always seem to be against them?

We Africans deserve better.

[Chief @Chiefofbridge]

🚨 Peter Drury Breaks Silence: Questionable Calls, Cancelled Goals & FIFA Favouritism – Has Football Become a Scripted Show?

🗣Peter Drury

“After years spent analyzing football matches and commentating on the game at the highest level, I can honestly say that what we witnessed today between Argentina and Egypt was unlike anything I’ve seen in my entire career.

How that was awarded as a penalty remains a complete mystery. The contact, if any, looked minimal at best, yet the decision stood. It’s becoming harder and harder to watch the sport without feeling that the beautiful game is slowly turning into something of a joke for millions of fans around the world. The officiating has been strangely “clean” almost suspiciously so yet it leaves serious questions about consistency and impartiality.

Then there was Egypt’s goal, ruled out for reasons that still aren’t entirely clear. Why was it disallowed? In the same match, when Argentina scored their decisive goal, there appeared to be a clear foul in the build-up that neither the referee nor VAR chose to review properly. These are the moments that make supporters feel the outcome is no longer decided purely on the pitch.

There’s a growing narrative out there and it’s hard to ignore that Lionel Messi is being protected as FIFA’s golden boy. With Cristiano Ronaldo no longer part of the international scene, some believe the powers that be are determined to keep Messi’s story alive for as long as possible because his presence still drives massive global interest and viewing figures. Whether that’s true or not, the pattern of decisions in key moments only fuels that conversation.

passion, and the unpredictable nature of who wins on any given day. But when decisions repeatedly go one way, when valid goals are chalked off and questionable ones are given, and when VAR seems to miss obvious incidents, it starts to feel like something else is at play. The game deserves better. Fans deserve transparency, consistency, and the simple belief that the result is earned not influenced.

These are the moments that test our love for the sport. And right now, that love is being stretched thin.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“

[Gakpo Era 🇳🇱 @Szobo_baller]

Jurgen Klopp 🗣️" Today we have witnessed a game where officials are willing to do anything for one side to win , ruling out that Egypt goal was injustice!"

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Iker Casillas on the controversial officiating decisions in Egypt and Argentina game, Messi and Argentina are being favored:

“As a goalkeeper, I’ve always believed football should be decided by players, not by controversies that leave people talking about referees for days.

I watched Argentina against Egypt, and honestly, I understand why Egyptian fans are furious, what I don’t understand is the consistency.

Egypt scores a second goal. The ball is in the net. Then VAR starts digging deeper than an archaeological expedition. Suddenly we’re reviewing incidents from so far back in the move that it feels like the goal was disallowed by history itself.

Fine.

If that’s the standard, then apply that standard everywhere. Because when Egypt were screaming for penalties late in the game, where was that same energy? Where was that same determination to find the truth?

Where was that same microscopic attention to detail? That’s the question millions of people are asking. One moment receives a full criminal investigation. The other gets a missing-person report. And football fans notice these things.

People will say Argentina showed the mentality of champions. I agree,they fought until the end, they punished every mistake. But let’s stop pretending that the officiating didn’t become a major part of the story. The disallowed Egyptian goal changed the emotional temperature of the match.

Then came two penalty appeals, Two opportunities to prove consistency. Two opportunities to reassure everyone that the same rules applied to both teams.

Nothing.

No moment that convinced Egypt they had received equal treatment. Then Argentina score the winner. And that’s when the frustration exploded. The bench erupted, cards came out, Coaches lost control of their emotions. Not because Egypt were losing. Because they felt the game was slipping away through decisions they could not understand.

That’s the difference, Fans can accept defeat. What fans struggle to accept is uncertainty.

The feeling that one team’s actions are examined frame by frame while another team’s incidents are viewed at highway speed.

Football cannot survive on trust if supporters leave the stadium believing the standards changed depending on the shirt being worn.

Maybe Argentina still win if every decision goes Egypt’s way. Maybe they don’t. We’ll never know. And that’s exactly why the debate will never die.

Because Egypt didn’t leave this World Cup talking about tactics. They didn’t leave talking about missed chances.

They left talking about a disallowed goal, ignored penalty appeals, VAR consistency, bookings on the bench, and a feeling that every time they climbed the mountain, somebody moved the finish line.

Argentina advance. Egypt go home. But the biggest winner tonight wasn’t football.

It was controversy.

And whenever controversy becomes the star of the show, the sport has failed the people who love it.”

[Lemon @Lemonbryz]

🚨 🎙️Ronaldo Nazário on the controversial refereeing in Argentina vs Egypt;

Interviewer: Ronaldo, what did you make of that dramatic comeback by Argentina today?
Ronaldo Nazário: Look, Argentina are a very strong team with real champions’ mentality. To come back from 2-0 down like that shows quality and character — no doubt about it. But if we’re being honest, the refereeing had a big influence on how this game unfolded.

If it was a different team playing against Egypt today, ask yourself if those decisions could have been different. Be honest with yourself and that’s all you need to know.
Let’s go through them one by one. First, Egypt score on the counter — Zico finishes it brilliantly after Salah’s work. They celebrate, the momentum is with them, and then VAR steps in and disallows it for a so-called foul in the build-up. A soft little challenge on Martínez, nothing clear and obvious. In most games, that goal stands. Tonight it didn’t.

Then the penalty awarded to Argentina. Marginal contact at best. You see those incidents week in, week out and they’re waved away. Here it was given. Messi missed it, okay, but the decision itself shifted the psychological balance when Egypt were in control.

And it wasn’t just those two. Throughout the match, the consistency wasn’t there — fouls called one way, advantage not played at key moments, little things that add up. Egypt were fighting for something historic. They went 2-0 up with real quality and heart. With fair, consistent officiating, this match could easily have gone either way — and without all the controversy afterwards.
Argentina showed they can win ugly, but football deserves better. The big calls shouldn’t feel like they’re protecting one side. Respect to Egypt — they played a great game and pushed the champions all the way.

Interviewer: Strong words…
Ronaldo Nazário: I say what I see. That’s it.

[LBW @losblancoswrld]

Chicharito you legend.