Global outrage at FIFA happening now !!! 😱
Messi raised his finger against the Portuguese referee and threatened him: "Speak to me with respect!"
Despite an official rule against this action that leads to a red card and a multi-match ban, Messi was exempted from punishment!
@miss77ela That's how haland plays, i suppose u don't watch man city games...haland will touch the ball 2 times in the entire game and when get gets 2 chances its a guaranteed 2 goals
@smdcapital That's how haland plays, i suppose u don't watch man city games...haland will touch the ball 2 times in the entire game and when get gets 2 chances its a guaranteed 2 goals
@JO_BEST7@stilldsame1 That's how haland plays, i suppose u don't watch man city games...haland will touch the ball 2 times in the entire game and when get gets 2 chances its a guaranteed 2 goals
🚨🇪🇬 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
"I will not watch this World Cup again!" 🤬
Egypt head coach Hossam Hassan accused Argentina of pressuring the referee in their 'entirely undeserved' World Cup round of 16 win 👀
There is no conclusive proof. But the circumstantial evidence that there is pro-Argentina bias in FIFA affecting the World Cup:
1) In the group stage opener against Algeria, Messi caught Aïssa Mandi with a studs-up challenge on the Achilles and escaped any card. FIFA later admitted the VAR officials got it wrong and sanctioned them.
2) The inconsistency became undeniable when the United States' Folarin Balogun was sent off in the Round of 32 for a near-identical foot-on-ankle challenge on Bosnia's Tarik Muharemović. Pundits directly compared the red card to Messi's uncarded foul on Mandi.
3) In the 2026 Round of 32 against Cape Verde, referee Drew Fischer did not enforce the tournament's new rule requiring an injured player to remain off the pitch after treatment. He waited for Argentina's Nicolás Tagliafico to return before allowing a Cape Verde corner. Several uncalled fouls in that game also went Argentina's way.
4) Today against Egypt, with Egypt leading 1-0, Mostafa Ziko finished off a long breakaway to make it 2-0. VAR sent Letexier to the monitor and the goal was disallowed for a Marwan Attia shirt-pull on Lisandro Martínez that occurred roughly 20 seconds earlier and nearly the full length of the pitch from goal.
5) Neutral officiating experts, not just Egyptian fans, called the decision wrong. Former FIFA referee Mark Clattenburg said he did not believe it was a foul and did not believe VAR should have intervened at all, adding that the call was inconsistent with the physical contact referees had allowed all tournament.
6) The winning sequence produced a second grievance. In the buildup to Enzo Fernández's stoppage-time winner, Egypt appealed for a penalty on a Salah challenge and for an Alexis Mac Allister shirt-pull, and VAR checked neither. Hassan cited the unreviewed Mac Allister pull directly in his post-match remarks.
7) The 2026 grievances land on top of a 2022 record In Qatar, Argentina were awarded five penalties, the most ever by a team in a single World Cup edition, with Messi taking all five. That same tournament, Messi handled the ball against the Netherlands in the quarterfinal and escaped a yellow card.
8) FIFA has appointed an all-Argentine crew, led by Facundo Tello, for Thursday's France–Morocco quarterfinal, the tournament's first all-same-country panel.
9) Comments attributed to Infantino after an Argentina match were widely discussed as suggesting bias toward Argentina before he later clarified them, and a deep Messi run drives far more global viewership and revenue than one without him. This establishes incentive.
FIFA cannot be trusted. Egypt was robbed. Argentina are coasting to another title under FIFA protection.