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[Luiz Carlos Largo @LARGOESPN]

FBI AVANÇA EM INVESTIGAÇÃO CONTRA A AFA DURANTE A COPA DO MUNDO! 🚨🇦🇷

A Justiça dos Estados Unidos deu um novo passo na investigação envolvendo a Associação do Futebol Argentino (AFA).

Enquanto o presidente Claudio Tapia acompanha a seleção argentina na Copa do Mundo, agentes do FBI e promotores do Departamento de Justiça ouviram o empresário Guillermo Tofoni em um depoimento que durou mais de duas horas.

As autoridades investigam movimentações financeiras internacionais ligadas à AFA, envolvendo contratos comerciais administrados por bancos e empresas sediadas nos Estados Unidos.

O valor analisado ultrapassa US$ 300 milhões (cerca de R$ 1,6 bilhão).

Segundo as informações do Terra, a investigação busca esclarecer se houve violação da legislação americana nas operações internacionais da entidade.

Até o momento, não há acusações formais contra os investigados. O caso segue em fase preliminar, com o objetivo de reunir provas e identificar possíveis irregularidades.

🗞️ @Terra

[FOX Sports MX @FOXSportsMX]

🚨 ¡ESCÁNDALO EN PLENA COPA! 🚨

#LaCopaxFSMX | El mismo día que eliminaron con polémica a Egipto, se revela que el FBI tiene en la mira a la Asociación de Futbol Argentino 🇦🇷💰

El diario La Nación 📰 publica que el Departamento de Justicia de EUA está recabando testimonios por operaciones vinculadas con la AFA

https://t.co/QAWsZABcBI

[Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian]

The U.S. government's conduct as World Cup host follows its familiar foreign policy: bending rules, bullying rivals, creating obstacles, and cheating. This is their MAGA playbook. Iran rejects such games. We stand firmly for our rights.

[ceolawyer @ceolawyer]

Egypt was robbed today because of FIFA’s financial interests in the game.

90% of the fans in the stadium were wearing Argentina jerseys.

Every other alcohol advertisement starred Messi.

Both teams had the same exact foul, but only Egypt had their goal revoked.

So yes, FIFA’s financial decision was to advance Argentina and keep their cash cow mooing.

It’s just business.

But as a Palestinian watching my fellow Arabs put their heart and soul into their craft, just to have their honor stripped away, is not a surprise.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

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

“People will say Argentina showed the mentality of champions. Fine. But tell me this: when exactly did Egypt get the same protection from the officials?

We scored a second goal. The stadium exploded. The world saw it. Then suddenly VAR became an archaeologist, digging through the ruins of football history to find a foul from another lifetime.

Funny how they could rewind the game Five minutes to cancel our goal, but when I was brought down in the box, everyone suddenly forgot where the replay button was.

That’s what hurts. Not losing. Not Argentina.

The inconsistency.

One decision gets examined under a microscope. Another gets buried under the carpet.

We were told football is decided on the pitch. Tonight it felt like it was decided in a control room.

And let’s talk about those final minutes.

Two penalty appeals. Two moments that could have changed everything. Nothing. No review. No urgency. No explanation.

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

That isn’t a plot twist. That’s the kind of script that leaves millions of people asking questions.

Egypt fought for every blade of grass. We defended. We believed. We earned our moments.

But every time we climbed the mountain, someone moved the summit.

The disallowed goal.

The ignored penalty shouts.

The cards flying around our bench because people who dedicate their lives to this game couldn’t understand what they were witnessing.

And now we’re expected to smile and say football won?

No.

Football wins when the rules are applied equally.

Football wins when VAR is a shield for fairness, not a sword that appears only when convenient.

Because from where I’m standing, Egypt didn’t just lose 3-2.

Egypt lost a goal, lost two penalty appeals, lost faith in consistency, and eventually lost a place in the quarter-finals.

Maybe Argentina deserved to advance.

Maybe they didn’t.

That’s football.

But what will make people angry isn’t the result.

It’s the feeling that one team was forced to play against eleven men, the clock, and a set of decisions that seemed to change shape whenever the game demanded it.

And that’s why this match will be remembered long after the scoreline is forgotten.”

[Forbes @Forbes]

Ticket Prices Collapse Nearly 60% For World Cup Quarterfinal Match After USA, Portugal Eliminated
https://t.co/uSBqkeF8Ae

[Samar D Jarrah @SamarDJarrah]

عاجل
البرلمان الأوروبي يعتزم المطالبة بإجراء تحقيق في رئيس الفيفا، جياني إنفانتينو.

[euronews @euronews]

European Parliament to ask for probe into FIFA boss Infantino https://t.co/Lwe9VphjKD

[Luiz Carlos Largo @LARGOESPN]

Pela primeira vez na história do Mundial, foi acionado o gesto "X", protocolo utilizado para denunciar um possível caso de racismo durante uma partida.

O sinal foi feito pelo técnico da seleção do Egito 🇪🇬, mas, mesmo assim, a arbitragem decidiu aplicar cartão amarelo ao treinador.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

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.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

World Cup gyaan: what would have been a great upset ends up as a great comeback. Got to feel for the Egyptians: matched the mighty Argentinians toe to toe, even could have got at least one decision in their favour and certainly didn’t deserve to lose. Messi is a force of nature but the men in red can walk like Egyptians with heads held high. 👍

[New York Post @nypost]

Egypt the latest victim of VAR in improbable World Cup loss to Argentina https://t.co/2tmfSPQGuh

[د. أحمد عطوان DR.AHMED ATWAN @ahmedatwan66]

✍️فيديو توثيقي التاريخ …
هذا المقطع نشره واحد من أفضل النقاد الرياضيين في #أسبانيا وكتب عليه التعليق :
🔴هذا أبشع وأفسد تحكيم في تاريخ كرة القدم والرياضة.
🔴مصر كانت ضحية سرقة القرن 🇪🇬
🔴الفيفا ستظل يده ملطخة بهذه الجريمة مدى الحياة
🔴شاهدوا الجريمة وكيف يقدمون كل هذه المساعدات لميسي و الأرجنتين.؟
#كاس_العالم_٢٠٢٦

[- @LMDiddy14]

Argentina robbing Egypt.

Uploading this again because FIFA removed the video.

[FLA Henrique @flahenriquebr]

Fizeram um compilado de 4 minutos mostrando os lances em que a Argentina foi favorecida contra o Egito.

Simplesmente um escândalo mundial. Quanta sujeira envolvida. 🤢

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🗣️ 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Hossam Hassan (Egypt) with a RANT!

"It's all about money. They want Messi to stay in the tournament.

In football, many things happen off the pitch because of interests.

What happened was unfair.

Egypt deserved to qualify. We were the better team against Argentina."

[Ipostanything LFC @postanythingLFC]

The fact that Mo Salah with the Egyptian coach and staff keeps urging the referee to review the VAR but they neglected and never did tells you everything you need to know.

[Rifat Jawaid @RifatJawaid]

Let’s repeat. Messi is a mediocre and his so-called greatness is earned by rigging, cheating and support to a genocidal entity.

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

The GOAT

[RT @RT_com]

Egypt VS Argentina referee EXPLAINS HIS CALLS

'Sorry... MESSI MUST BE IN THE FINAL'

VARGENTINE APPROVED