“Piu Avanti!!
No te des por vencido, ni aún vencido, no te sientas esclavo, ni aun esclavo; trémulo de pavor, piénsate bravo y arremete feroz ya malherido.
Los cambios inentendibles, teniendo a Sanabria, Pitta le terminas poniendo a Bobadilla y Alonso, era jugarse a ganar, no a ser conformista y empatar para ver si se da clasificar.
🚨🎙️New: Thierry Henry on FIFA’s new mouth-covering rule:
Almirón gets sent off in the Paraguay & Turkey game. Bellingham gets away in yesterday’s game between Ghana and England. Same rule, different treatment:
Let me be clear: I have always believed in the beauty and integrity of this game, but what we are witnessing with this new FIFA rule is deeply troubling. On paper, it aims to curb unsportsmanlike behavior. In reality, it exposes a system rotten to its core — selective enforcement that protects the privileged and punishes the rest.
Jude Bellingham, covers his mouth while confronting a Jordan Ayew, clashes with the bench, and walks away unscathed. Almiron does the exact same thing? Straight red card. Same tournament, same gesture, polar opposite outcomes. This is ‘rules for thee, but not for me’ in its purest form. Star privilege activated, while smaller nations pay the price.
FIFA and IFAB claim they want to protect the game from insults, yet the rule is applied like a precision scalpel against players from Paraguay or Ghana and like a blunt instrument ignored for European stars. Bellingham can tell the Ghana bench to get lost, engage in confrontations, and still receive the Hollywood treatment.
One English player, a white European star is shielded. Paraguayan and African players? They face harsh punishment for the same actions. FIFA no longer hides its bias: European football sits at the top of the pyramid, and everyone else is beneath it. This isn’t equality; it’s systemic double standards that echo far beyond the pitch.
This hypocrisy is why so many have grown disillusioned with modern football. New rules designed to ‘stop insults’ are weaponized only against non-stars. The little guys get crushed under the weight of the system, while the elites operate above it.
Football is passion, emotion, and raw human fire, the intensity of two players facing off, the words exchanged in the heat of battle. FIFA is turning it into a scripted, sanitized spectacle reserved for the chosen few. One rule for Bellingham and his ilk, another for everyone else. Paraguay loses a key player for ‘hiding words,’ while England escapes consequences for open confrontations. Fair play is not just dead under this regime, it has been executed and buried beneath layers of hypocrisy and selective justice.
Even VAR, meant to bring clarity, plays its part in the farce. It goes for coffee when England needs scrutiny — missed penalties, unpunished reds versus Ghana — but becomes hyper-vigilant the moment someone like Almirón steps forward. Smaller nations get the full weight of the book thrown at them, while the big teams receive the benefit of every doubt.
The game we love deserves better. Until FIFA applies its rules with true impartiality — an iron fist for all, not just the powerless — the soul of football will continue to erode. Fans see through the facade. The players from Africa and South America feel the injustice every time they step on the pitch. And no amount of new regulations can mask the truth: in today’s game, some are far more equal than others.”
🚨🎙️New: Zlatan Ibrahimović on FIFA’s new mouth-covering rule:
“Almirón gets a red. Bellingham gets nothing. Same rule, different treatment”:
“I don’t understand football anymore. FIFA tells us there is a new rule: cover your mouth during a confrontation and you can be sent off. Fine. A rule is a rule. But when the same World Cup gives us two similar situations and only one player pays the price, people are going to ask questions.
“I don’t understand football anymore. FIFA tells us there is a new rule: cover your mouth during a confrontation and you can be sent off. Fine. A rule is a rule. But when the same World Cup gives us two similar situations and only one player pays the price, people are going to ask questions.
When the law is a spider’s web, the small flies get trapped while the big ones tear straight through it. Every new football rule is sold as justice, but justice that changes shirts depending on who wears it stops looking like justice at all.
Football fans are not blind. They see a Real Madrid superstar and England’s golden boy getting the benefit of every doubt, while smaller nations get punished before they can even explain themselves. The badge on your chest should not be a shield against the laws of the game.
And please don’t tell me VAR sees everything. VAR can spot a blade of grass being offside from 50 cameras, but suddenly develops tunnel vision when certain players are involved. It’s amazing how technology becomes a microscope for some teams and a blindfold for others.
The danger isn’t the red card. The danger is the message. If supporters start believing that England, Europe, and football’s biggest brands play by a different set of rules, then trust in the competition starts collapsing like a house built on sand.
Football was supposed to be the world’s game. Now many fans feel it’s becoming a VIP club. The stars sit in first class while everyone else is told to follow the rules from economy.
If the gesture deserves a red card, then give it every time. If it doesn’t, then stop pretending. Because selective justice is the quickest way to kill fair play. And when fair play dies, football becomes nothing more than a blockbuster movie where the ending is already protected.”
💣🚨 BREAKING: Paraguay 🇵🇾 Files an Official Complaint to FIFA Over Inconsistencies.
Paraguay Football Federation files official complaint to FIFA over alleged inconsistent application of the new mouth-covering rule at the 2026 World Cup.
In a strongly worded letter, Paraguay officials cited the England vs Ghana Group L match, pointing out multiple instances most notably involving Jude Bellingham where England players appeared to cover their mouths during heated confrontations with Ghana opponents, yet no red cards were issued.
This comes just days after Paraguay’s own Miguel Almirón became the first player in World Cup history to receive a straight red for the exact same offence against Türkiye (refereed by Iván Barton).
> “The rule must be applied equally to all teams, or it loses all credibility.” Source close to Paraguayan FA
FIFA has confirmed receipt of the complaint and says it will review the incidents. More to follow…
What do you think fair complaint or sour grapes? 👀
⁉️💥 ¿Cuándo se produce la polémica acción entre Bellingham y Ayew?
▪️ En el 37', Bellingham retiene un balón y Ayew se acerca para pedirle explicaciones en un tono cordial.
❌ La retransmisión enfocó a la grada y la escena no fue captada.
🖥️ El VAR decidió no intervenir.
Se advirtió que el criterio de la "ley Vinicius-Prestianni" no se iba a mantener en el resto del torneo, generando únicamente más injusticia, confusión y sensación de perjuicio contra Paraguay. Hoy a Bellingham no le mostraron la tarjeta roja tras taparse la boca en una confrontación con Ayew, durante el empate entre Ghana-Inglaterra.
Evidentemente, esto evidencia que el cuerpo arbitral solo actuó en el Paraguay-Turquía porque el jugador turco se avivó y aprovechó de la normativa. Aquí, como Ayew demostró cierto respeto y código, el VAR ni prestó atención.
Ah, pero la FIFA sí que actuó rápido para sancionar a un periodista paraguayo por denunciar la estupidez detrás de esta norma. La hipocresía.
🚨🗣️ Thierry Henry's Apology to Cristiano Ronaldo
"I have to hold my hands up and completely apologize tonight. After the DR Congo game, I said he was playing for himself, getting in the way, and that the team needs to score, not just him. But what he did tonight against Uzbekistan... that is exactly why he is Cristiano Ronaldo. To be 41 years old, stepping onto the pitch under that immense pressure, and delivering a Man of the Match performance with two incredible goals in a 5-0 win? It defies logic. I questioned if he was holding Portugal back, and he answered it the only way he knows how: by silencing the studio, silencing the critics, and reminding us all that counting him out is the biggest mistake you can make in football history. I was wrong. The team needed a ruthless leader tonight, and he was absolute perfection."
El que diga que Ale Domínguez no tiene nada que ver sabe que está mintiendo.
Que rabia viejo, uno de los mejores relatores que tiene el país.. justo con la mejor cobertura que tiene el mundial. Es deber de ustedes @ABCTVpy no soltarle la mano.
Acabo de ver el vídeo del relato de Chipi Vera y, más allá del exabrupto, creo que la sanción “ejemplificadora” en este caso es absolutamente desproporcionada. Un pedido disculpas como este bastaba y sobraba para zanjar la situación.
Además, el contexto del relato no puede dejar de obviarse. El fútbol es un deporte de emociones y, en ese momento específico, creo que Vera dijo lo que muchos pensaban. Su falta fue hacerlo desde el insulto, la rabia, por eso el pedido de disculpas, como él expresa, corresponde. Sin embargo, la sanción es exagerada.
En fin, una pena por él y sus compañeros.