Don’t worry Argentina, only about 20% of the entire world saw you act like gigantic babies!
You see the riots back home. I don’t think they care since they aren’t hiding anything
They already deserve bans for that war mongering banner they flew after the England game.
That’s what the article stated is being looked into. It was a really short article
Maybe Trump can step in again for his buddy Milei
The World Cup is over. That Fifa Peace Prize don’t mean shit anymore.
Never has been 🔫
Shhhh… Don’t tell him that!!
Retroactive red cards for every Spanish player for… umm… breathing in a threatening way and being ‘bad people’. Match forfeited, Argentina wins the WC.
(This is Trump and Argentina’s dream.)
Because Spain didn’t back him up as part of their defensive alliance in a totally non-offensive war of course!
Also because they edited him off the trophy ceremony!
I’m still over here waiting for player bans for the conduct DURING the game let alone after it. There were send off offences completely ignored during the game. It was obvious that Arg was allowed to get away it.
The fight at the end was a natural result of shit behavior allowed for 120+ minutes.
Brawling is unnecessary, and makes you look like a little bitch in competitive sports.
They deserve the bans.
I still haven’t seen any clear footage of the timeline of events / who did what first etc… But if they (Argentina player(s)) came over and instigated a fight after the game as this article alludes to, they should be banned for at least one season. This shouldn’t be acceptable and consequences should be handed out. They’ve been given way too much leeway across the board for their antics.
Rodri (Spanish player) ran past an Argentina player (dive remember who) at the final whistle on his way to celebrate with his teammates who were gathering bar I’ve corner of the pitch). He didn’t say anything to the Arg player, but the Arg player punched his arm (in a non-playful way) as he ran by.
Rodri stopped and went back to ask why the Arg player did that. Another Arg player (who had been overly dirty and aggressive all match) ran over to confront Rodri about his approach. This guy was basically just looking for an excuse to fight.
A couple of other Spanish players, seeing the fracas starting ran over to support Rodri. One of these Spanish players was grabbed by the throat. Another was pushed over and smacked in the face as he tried to get back to. There were probably other hits going on at that time.
So basically, it was down to Argentina’s players being bad losers and throwing hands for no good reason. But as we’ve seen elsewhere, they are also bad winners. It’s ridiculous that the kids I coach had much better attitudes in both situations than these supposed adult professional athletes. But that’s where we’re at.
Oh, and during the match, among all the fouls and hits Argentinian players were doing, Messi tried to get Cucarrela sent off because he briefly covered his mouth to demonstrate that a teammate had been hit in the mouth or something. So Messi was being a dirt git as well.
Argentina went into this fixture only intending to fuck with the Spanish players and play down the clock for penalties. They were playing anti-football. Fortunately, Spain didn’t fall for it, came to play, and were too good for Argentina’s horse shit.
ETA: I got a few details wrong. But what the Argentinian players did in that fracas was actually worse than how I recounted it. More info can be found here.
I don’t get the whole thing of people being upset about Messi. People are mad he tried to tell the ref what Cucurella said? That’s really not that bad or—what I heard—“unsportsmanlike.” How so?
Messi wasn’t telling the ref what Cucurella said. Covering your mouth while speaking is a red card offense because players would say slurs and didn’t want others to be able to lip-read. Cucurella wasn’t doing that, he briefly tapped his lips to gesture that his teammate got hit in the mouth. Messi raised his hand as if Cucurella covered his mouth to say a slur - to get him sent off the pitch and get an unfair advantage.
Not to mention, the time messi was about to get smoked sprinting for the ball and shoved the kid hard enough the kid nearly face planted.
Shoulda been a yellow at least, but naw. They just cut back to replays of someone accidentally coming down on Argentinian feet.
I will never understand why people think Messi is a role model- he’s always riding the edge of unsportsmanlike conduct and he gets to go out further than anyone else. (He’s constantly trying to draw fouls or goes into an aggressive challenge and pretends he got fouled. Worse than fucking Aron Rodgers. “But he touched me! ME!”)
It’s just the locker rooms…
