🗣️ Interviewer: The Argentina team has faced cheating and refereeing allegations since the group stage. Do you think the officiating has been fair, or do you believe there’s been some favoritism?
Zlatan Ibrahimović: To be honest, this World Cup feels like it’s already been prepared for Argentina to win. The refereeing has looked heavily biased in almost every match they’ve played. It started in the group stage when Messi stepped on an opponent, then there were controversial moments against Cape Verde, Egypt, and now Switzerland.
At this point, it doesn’t even feel like a genuine competition anymore, it looks like a show designed for Argentina to win without having to struggle. There have been several highly questionable decisions. Incidents that would normally be called against other teams are ignored when Argentina is involved. On top of that, Argentina’s players seem to avoid yellow and red cards for reckless challenges that would usually be punished. From my perspective, that’s unfair and goes against the spirit of the game.
When Cape Verde started taking control, every major decision suddenly went Argentina’s way.
When Egypt looked ready to go three goals clear, the referee found a reason to wipe one off.
When Switzerland threatened to complete the turnaround, a Swiss player was conveniently sent off.
You can look away all you want, but the pattern is becoming impossible to ignore. The favouritism is glaring, and the stench of corruption is everywhere.
I have to be honest: I can’t take this World Cup seriously anymore.
3 outcomes now directly impacted by very questionable VAR interventions.
Croatia, Egypt, and now Norway.
A goal taken away because VAR intervened over a dive, and a goal scored against them because a ball hit a cable and they didn’t.
As an impartial observer, the outcome no longer feels legitimate.
🚨 JUST IN:
After thorough review, FIFA released a statement which says the Egypt second goal against Argentina shouldn't have been canceled.
🗣 "The VAR had it wrong and we apologize to Egypt national team and the country at large"
it’s always “no one watches women’s sports” instead of “the men in charge have systemically smothered women’s sports in every possible way for all of history and justify it by claiming no one will watch (despite all the actual evidence to the contrary)”
URGENTE: Parlamento Europeu solicitaram a abertura de uma investigação contra o presidente da FIFA, Gianni Infantino, por suposta violação do princípio de neutralidade política da entidade.
🚨🇪🇬 OFICIAL! FEDERAÇÃO EGÍPCIA ACIONA A FIFA!
A Federação Egípcia de Futebol protocolou oficialmente uma queixa junto à FIFA, solicitando uma investigação sobre as decisões de arbitragem na derrota por 3 a 2 para a Argentina 🇦🇷 pela Copa do Mundo.
A entidade egípcia quer que os lances mais polêmicos da partida sejam analisados e que a atuação da equipe de arbitragem seja revisada.
O confronto segue repercutindo fortemente, e a reclamação oficial aumenta ainda mais a pressão sobre a FIFA para esclarecer os episódios do jogo.
@geglobo
🇪🇬 JUST IN: FIFA has demanded the removal of the stars on Egypt's jersey that symbolize their 7 African championship titles.
This will go down in history as the worst tournament ever...
Why is Messi crying !?! What the fck are you crying for !? Your cheating Bastard of a country has robbed another Nation a chance of a World Cup.
Not even an ounce of shame.
People dick riding a country that played like shit for 80 minutes, and missed two penalties with a rigged ref calling this a deserved win is crazy to me
Those folks don’t like women & especially don’t like women who play sports better than them so unfortunately, the crazy success of our women’s National team often goes unnoticed 🤦🏽♀️