Olympic Football Disaster Was Hilariously Bad

[@qBeYcarpet]

As a person living under a rock, I appreciate the update on the Olympic football

[@niclaswenzel8689]

how big is your rock?

[@xaltotunacheron7544]

Me too, can't afford to be chronically online

[@davinnicode]

Couldn’t care less about Olympic football. It shouldn’t even be Olympic in my opinion

[@generichuman2044]

​@@davinnicode hard agree. There is already enough international football with the world cup and each continent hosting a tournament. Get rid of football to make way for another sport that doesn't get as much attention

[@SrSteve404]

nice kenny pfp he's the goat

[@RainerRilke3]

Fun fact: There was less total play time in the second half with the 15 added minutes than in the first half of the match.

[@younesalkhaddari69]

source?

[@b__c7538]

@@younesalkhaddari69Eyes

[@alliedatheistalliance6776]

Yeah I actually agree with the ridiculously long extra time if it corresponds to an equal amount of timewasting.

[@TH1RDP3RSON]

that was not a PRO-moroccan crowd lol. it was straight up moroccan crowd.

[@RegenTonnenEnte]

It's france afterall..

[@diegomaloney2712]

"pro-morroccan" = I dont want to get labeled a racist

[@torodfs7593]

@@diegomaloney2712 wut

[@shams3831]

@@torodfs7593 Libs are worried to say that France is essentially Morocco/Algeria/etc and not French.

[@thzo7176]

​@@RegenTonnenEntethere is a big moroccan community here yes !

[@PAUL-ob7mh]

I attended that game. There were just a few French fans. This was clearly a Moroccan crowd. They whistle the Argentinian National Anthem. They did the same in Qatar when they faced Canada. Huge lack of respect in my mind. They must stop to do this.

[@ni9274]

Weird that when Argentinians fans whistle other countries anthem nobody cares ? Weird that when Argentinians are being openly racist nobody cares ?

[@agdaltarek]

From a moroccan, this habbit started almost 7 years ago, booing african teams anthems in the 2018 world cup qualifiers, no matter how many times we keep reminding supporters to not do so as it can be very disrespectful, that didnt stop. I dont get it aswell as a good part of the moroccan population

[@gabrielalejandrodoldan4722]

​@@agdaltarek Ban them from entering the stadium

[@alliedatheistalliance6776]

Moroccan fans are kinda crazy tbh, they rioted in France when they won games in the World Cup. Argentine fans are loco too, so Morocco-Argentina was inevitably going to be insane.

[@redtruth121]

Moroccan here, i swear we're trying to convince people to stop disrespecting other countrie's anthems but to no result 😅 (at least it became less frequent than before)

[@marco0445]

Dont let this distract you from the fact that Zealand has stopped running again.

[@AnEagle]

Nope, he ran a 10k today

[@RobotSantaClaus]

Imagine if from now on every time a controversial call is made hundreds of fans stop the match. I can only imagine how common pitch invasions will become if the team isn’t sanctioned/disqualified by IOC. It’ll be utter chaos.

[@gb2983]

Get the fences up like they used to have in the 80s in England 😂

[@cyrillechristophe9731]

Why would the team be sanctionned ? First of all, they're not even playing at home. They can't be held responsible for how people act unless those people are actually travelling with an official group of supporters, which only works for clubs, not nations. And another one. If what you're suggesting was applied, guess what ? You can be sure that some fans would be absolutely ok to " sacrifice " themselves just so the opposing team could be disqualified.

[@Toropetskii]

@@cyrillechristophe9731 Morocco playing in France may be just as much of a home game as the Argentinians were trying to warn you.

[@coyootje]

Lol just have a look at Dutch football, where they thought it'd be smart to introduce a rule: games were stopped when someone throws something on the field, if it happens again after a short break it's being finished another day without a crowd. Real smart... Games ended up getting postponed whenever the fans got rowdy and especially at a relegation threatened club it was honestly like this almost every weekend. It would not work, they should just hand out some serious stadium bans instead.

[@grimaffiliations3671]

sanction maybe disqualified wtf?

[@JackFraley-u3q]

I actually think it was a smart decision to not clarify that the match would be resumed. Probably made it a lot easier to remove people from the stadium.

[@indubitavelmentelivre7067]

"Insólito" means something like "I have never seen this before" or " Its the first time ever this happens"

[@herakies5495]

Yep. Unprecedented.

[@ni9274]

They’re lying, way worst things have happened involving Argentinians fans And they shouldn’t be shocked that Moroccan fans are violent after the racist incident and the fact that Argentina defended their players

[@TurboThunda]

​@ni9274 you think that justifies violence against them? If so, you're unhinged

[@diegodiazsaura3285]

V​@@TurboThunda racism is violence tho

[@LiftandCoa]

@@ni9274 They shoudnt be shocked? Excuse me? Who ever here was violent is objectively the worse person.

[@willetzky]

Don't tell the English refs that they can take 90 minutes to make a VAR decision

[@rahultomasaggarwal8613]

there was 15 minutes of added time because there were literally 7 different pauses in the match due to pitch invasions....

[@wadawahahahaha6806]

Now everything is make sense, since this guy only tell how moroco killing the game and then give 15 minute?? i was like no way it's possible just because the moroco playstyle, except they're using the dramatic injury for every 1 minute 😂😂

[@skillexx479]

@@wadawahahahaha6806 bro did not watch this video or just doesnt understand zealand

[@wadawahahahaha6806]

​@skillexx479 3:40 watch again, he literally only say moroco killed the game for the reason extra 15 minute, and he only mentions the pitch invasion after the goal 2-2. Reply after you watch the video again buddy

[@skillexx479]

@@wadawahahahaha6806 I really think that this is a broken English misunderstanding. When he says “kill the game” he means that Morocco had the win in the bag but then some bs happened with the refs and the 15 mins r added. He didn’t mean “killing the game” in a bad way. It’s an analogy

[@kiwiya0]

I watched the whole match and i only one invasion during the match , the other invasion happened after Argentina scored the last goal or did i actually miss something ?

[@superextempman]

imagine your fans causing the game to be delayed 90 minutes because of a pitch invasion and then your rewarded with a win... game should of been called off at that point because of the bad fan behavior and declared a draw... wild man

[@chandlercrockett213]

Can’t blame conmebol or the US for this one 😅

[@nabri-nfg3262]

🤷🏿‍♂️ ateast The payed for there tickets

[@SortOfEggish]

He and the others will try

[@camerasanti4652]

​@nabri-nfg3262 So that gives them permission to attack players?, say what you want about southamerican fans at the final, but Noone attacked any player, keep the same energy

[@ganaed]

You never know .... Lol

[@man4437]

I'm glad you reported the events correctly, because people were getting extremely mad because of poor reporting leading to people thinking that the match ended and then was restarted after the VAR finally looked at the goal and hour later. That's not what you should be mad at, you should be mad at the crowd and the crowd control.

[@Spoiler.Spoiler]

In terms of security, this edition starts very chaotic and messy: - The Argentinian football team was robbed before the match (+ all about the match: pitch invasions, people throwing things). - Two Australian staffers were attacked during an attempted robbery. A Colombian friend is there as a volunteer. She saw how a few guys wanted to start a fight with a group of Argentinians (who ignored them) because "they are racists". She talked to the police and they ignored her. My friend had to talk with the guys to avoid any problem. The organization needs to improve. This could escalate to something worse.

[@ni9274]

Nope it won’t, it’s just the normal consequences of Argentinian chanting racist chants and not even excusing themself

[@stephan2072]

f around find out boii.

[@chombus2602]

​@@ni9274 argentinians: call someone "monkey" Someone: "I will act like a monkey because that"

[@Spoiler.Spoiler]

@@ni9274 what I'm saying it's the insecurity can affect the Olympics image. As a big event, you should assure the security of the athletes and the public. PS: and I forget to mention the dutch p*do who's gonna participate this edition.

[@n.agustin113]

​@@chombus2602 True words

[@MetalHeadViking]

I dont think the ref did a good job. The fans stormed the pitch 7 times. (SEVEN times). By the third time, there should have been some kind of diciplinary action or at least a warning. The ref let the game and specially the crowd get completely out of hand which led to him adding on 15 minutes in the first place.

[@badblood18]

The ref does not control the crowd

[@MetalHeadViking]

@@badblood18 With new fifa rules he does. Meny matches have been paused or abbandoned because of the crowd. A clear example is when the mexican crowd in the USA yells "puto" at the goalkeeper. The same measurements could have been taken in this case after so many pitch invasions.

[@LiftandCoa]

@@MetalHeadViking After so many? The first one is enough. After the first one the crowd perfectly demonstrated that they are unable and quite frankly unwilling to act like a normal person in a stadium. This is factually so much worse than calling someone a who-re. But seemingly weve actually crossed the point where words are considered worse than actions.... Were completely lost.

[@JoaoVitor-is4zb]

The worst is the argentinians were robbed before trainning 1 or 2 days before the matchday vs Marocco.

[@losk3442]

that’s actually funny

[@ButIamAStick]

As an argentinian, i don't care about the goal being offside, i think it was the correct call, but the lack of security, not only this, but the olympics have Ukranians, Israelis and Palestinian representatives and it can end very badly. Hell, the Australian's cyiclism team got robbed, this is a bigger issue. And the lack of transparency about the information, even the journalist in the pitch didn't now what was happening, the players didn't know what was happening.

[@Worldsportstalk24]

Morocco should be seriously sanctioned for this. Completely against the spirit of the Olympic games in every way. Absolutely shameful

[@grimaffiliations3671]

what's controversial about the timing of the VAR? It's not like the game was allowed to continue for a while before the call. The game was interrupted. If you're going to resume, its only right you resume with a goal check

[@mooodeuce]

It's almost like we could have seen this coming in the champions league final in Paris 2 years ago. It's incredible how little security they have despite what was always pretty obviously going to be a lot of unruly and violent people. If the IOC doesn't sanction Morocco for this then they are culpable.

[@thzo7176]

Yes because Argentinians are the most perfect people on the world (no). Morocco's fan did bad, but the way the game was refeered was just straight up pro-Argentina (like the WC...)

[@acceltoine]

​@@thzo7176Yeah, because awarding a dodgy penalty to Morocco really shows the ref's bias to favor Argentina.

[@LiftandCoa]

@@thzo7176 Worst excuse of all time BUT THE OTHERS BAAAD TOOO What are u? 12? Also the game was refed pretty balanced. Sorry that not everybody shares Twitters hateboner so much that they start to misportrait to entire freaking game.

[@thzo7176]

@@LiftandCoa that's not excuses. Moroccan did bad. But talking about the IOC sanctionning them for this is a bit too much, when agaisnt them are some fans that shouted racist chants that may have put a bit of oil on the fire (with other problems). You just can't understand some nuances to what you say.

[@cr33dbratton]

Zealand can you talk about canada flying drones to spy on opponents lmao

[@lucagorosito3715]

What I believe is the biggest scandal here is both VAR taking almost 2 hours to review a match ending play, AND kicking people out of the stadium. That's literally an end of match act, kicking everybody out. They didn't even let people back in, hell, they didn't let journalists back in. Outrageous, if you ask me. Oh, and btw, there's a previous handball before the goal.

[@DaBob34]

The media is an issue, but they cleared the stadium for the safety of the players. They were not going to restart the match with fans in the stands.

[@Damian_1989]

As an argentinian, CAN WE STOP BEING IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERY MESS???

[@Cradien]

Pretty rough but at least you guys aren't in the wrong here lol

[@TH1RDP3RSON]

ankara messy

[@v0n1b0]

Certain player needs to stop posting on social media.

[@JohnDoe-xz1mw]

@@v0n1b0 dont worry once i become national team coach you either delete all your social media accounts or you are not playing.and not just "some players" absolutly all of them, you can play football or you can tweet, in my team you cant do both make your choice......only problem is somehow people wont hire me as head coach

[@ignaciotomasi]

literalmente, no tenemos ni un solo dia de respiro

[@JavierLuces]

Despite playing a football match, it should be noted that this is taking place within the Olympic Games, which makes it even more bizarre. The public's attitude towards Olympic athletes, regardless of the sport they practice, is what should be in everyone's discussion. Whistling anthems, fireworks and running on the field. Pathetic attitude. The ref should have suspended the game because Morocco supporters jump into the field and tried to injury olympic athletes.

[@mouna5252elle]

To be honest this shouldn't happen but i dont blame them as much the ref was in favor of argentina if you watch the match

[@RobotSantaClaus]

@@mouna5252ellestop watching football with your back

[@mateosou6610]

​@@mouna5252elleif you watch the match you'll realize its made to lit cigars and stuff If you watch the game, on the other hand, you'll realize moroccans spend half the 2nd half in the floor simulating fouls, so please, use your eyes next time, not your neck

[@mouna5252elle]

@@mateosou6610 i understand the frustration if you are argentina but the ref was in favor of you wa cant change that anyone who says that its not should go and watch the game again anyways morocco deserved the win they were the better team in that match

[@toskiemail1371]

Nobody takes Olympic football seriously

[@MrMMAJER]

I couldn't care less about losing the game, the call was fair, and Morocco deserved to win. The extra 15 minutes were measure with a chronometer, it has been said it was going to be like that, and during other games there have been +10 minutes added as well. However what unfolded was shameful, and criminal. Nothing less. I hope disciplinary sanctions are taken. And Tagliafico said it best regarding how media are taking this issue. It's been less than 24hs and the Olympics are already a big shitshow, is not only our players that are having an hostile arrival. Australian athletes have also suffered having their belongings violently stolen. There were women being groped. And Joel Embiid was called racist slurs on arrival to France too. I've also seen a lot of people blaming the violent acts on the refugees, which speaks volumes about them I guess.

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

They've also managed to flat out forget Brazil's skateboarding team in practice. Like they forgot to pick them up. I dunno, guys, but I think the organizers weren't ready to host this. Rio 2016 was way better than this.

[@ignaciotomasi]

Y aparte, Mascherano denunció que los chorearon cuando estaban entrenando, lo mismo que pasó con unos ciclistas de bmx australianos. Ojalá tanto Marruecos como Francia reciban sanciones desde las respectivas asociaciones por estas cosas. Situaciones como lo de marruecos se ha visto muchas veces en el futbol argentino, pero JAMAS en un torneo internacional a nivel selecciones.

[@MrMMAJER]

​@@Mateus_CarvalhoYes brother, and I can remember media outlets pushing a narrative of taking the games outside from Brasil, or postpone them, being very critical about security and sanitation. But of course since now are being organized by a "first world country" critics are going to be tame

[@rockaway0beach]

On one hand, I hope the whole scandal won't put a shade over the awful coaching Mascherano is doing and hoping this gets better over the tournament. On the other hand, public interference can be taken to the desks of arbitration, and it is totally justified to do if your players were put in danger BEFORE the match ended, as it was the call by the referee. French people asking for Embiid's passport is pretty ironic, isn't it?

[@davinnicode]

This years Olympics always had everything to be a complete shit show with the things already going on in France and the world.

[@ayooo9770]

I think VAR triggered this whole situation. If the Olympics doesn't use VAR, then the game ends after the goal. But because of the mandatory check needed, I would think that the VAR noticed the fact that it was actually offsides right after it was scored. That's why they had to wait till the crowd left in order to complete the check and resume the game. But no VAR, that's a triple whistle, game over. Also, as someone with Argentine citizenship, zero problem with booing the anthem. If we can give it, we can take it back. Let's go back to settling national beefs on a sports field

[@ni9274]

Booing the anthem is wrong 99% of the time but it’s right when it’s the anthem of an openly racist country

[@GufandFedGovt]

By the way, I want to add, the players there did not know whether the match was over or not until they were called for the warm up. They were there waiting on someone to talk to them once the "negotiations" were over...

[@JordanCox-n9l]

football has officially devolved

[@ninjaduck3k]

The obvious lesson here is that you should wait for the VAR analysis *then* riot. Good tip, thanks Zealand.

[@adammahmoudi8814]

Soufian Rahimi joins the Dark Arts High Council

[@brettbatz695]

I would argue that the goal was ruled offside during the 'break'. However, when the match is suspended the only choices you have are to resume the match or not. The ref couldn't offically rule the goal offside until they came back so he had to go through the motions of doing a VAR check. In watching the highlights, there seemed to be little surprise from either set of players when the ref came back from the monitor, almost as if they had been warned that call was oging to be made when the match resumed.

[@obamaslefteyeball1710]

Messi’s comment has to be the most Messi reaction there has ever been

[@GaddafisPlug]

sophisticated black tar sesh ⛷️⛷️

[@ninjalectualx]

No. Fuck heroin

[@MaxLC69]

Reasons the argentina football team is hated in France - disrespectful and borderline racist behavior towards the french national team after the 2022 world cup win (particularly emiliano martinez's behavior) - disrespectful behavior from martinez again when villa faced Lille in Europe (could have been considered just classic shithousery as a separate event but after what he did at the world cup lets just say he cemented himself as the most hated footballer in France) - and to top it of the video of enzo Fernández launching a racist chant towards french black players while he and most of the argentina squad where celebrating their copa america win All thing said, this doesn't make what happened at the olympics acceptable But i think its only fair to give a bit of context

[@thedailymillwall]

Morroco should be kicked out. Their fans violated the Olympic Spirit

[@MatthewJohnCrittenden]

"They thought it was all over, it is now!"

[@zionmolina3039]

The Olympics has given me a liking for Rugby.

[@schliatzke6712]

I don't really know what to make of rugby 7s. I feel like scoring is just a little too easy and the duration of the matches is ridiculously short. But I think something gimmicky, like 5 a side would also be fun for the Olympics football tournament

[@GRB-tj6uj]

​@@schliatzke6712if you think the matches are too short, try playing it. The stamina required makes 7 minutes feel like eternity

[@Aneurin_Hunt]

​@@schliatzke6712 it needs to be. I have only one experience of sevens. You need to run so so so much more than regular 15s. There's just so much more space since you have just under half the number of people on field. Also for the final it has 10 min half's. Maybe NZ can get double gold this year.

[@Aneurin_Hunt]

​@@schliatzke6712the only way to have longer games and less scoring is to play on a smaller field. Remember this is a normal rugby field. The same size as a football field.

[@Aneurin_Hunt]

@@fp-ko7vg I'm not super fused by sevens but each to their own.

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

I think Tokyo/Japan were trying to tell us something by holding their games behind closed doors

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

Well... pandemic notwithstanding.

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

@@Mateus_Carvalho uh, Mat, I think you missed a few space bars there, buddy Or that 1st T was supposed to be an N

[@anthonymweti8564]

Lol yes, Covid was ripe

[@akkar8726]

@@miscellaneoussarnian5282 "Notwithstanding" means "in spite of" lol uh, dude, I think you missed that it's a real word

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

@@akkar8726 I’ve never heard that word before in my entire life. It just looks like English Language tried to have a go at being German

[@liam6nugget]

At least this makes for a funny highlights package. You see a crucial last-minute goal scored before a raucous crowd, then you see a ref signalling for VAR in an empty stadium with no additional context

[@rickybuhl3176]

As a Manchester United fan, I don't wanna hear another word about "Fergie time" after this lol Getting messy without Messi.. I'll show my self out

[@keithcostello6219]

I think they didn’t announce the game wasn’t over so that people would fully vacate the stadium and the surrounding area. I think it was a security call

[@nameanteater4772]

The referee never goes to the monitor for an objective offside, the only exception being in the goalkeepers line of sight

[@Draddar]

The ref is actually never called to the screen for an offside VAR review. No idea what they were doing there. As for the fans, thinking the game was over was probably the easiest and safest way to clear the stadium. Whether that was intentional or not is another matter.

[@cyrillechristophe9731]

As you mentionned it, the situation was already dangerous and they had to evacuate the stands. I believe that leaving people oblivious to the fact that the game would restart was the right call. If the news that the game might not be over had started to spread out, you can bet some, people would have resisted and things could have escalated.

[@shisoyrown]

All teams got warned that VAR would be counting stoppage time, so as to encourage players to avoid faking injuries and stuff. Knowing this, Moroccan players decided to start playing the clock when they were up in the score, which is completely fine, everyone does it, and even if no one likes it, it's just part of the game. But the game was also stopped about 7 times due to pitch invasions, one time from Argentina supporters, six times from Moroccan supporters (i did not watch the second half, it's what i've been told). So security was broken at least seven times during the game, the last one of them with the intention to injure some of the players. We've seen huge injury time additions in the last WC as well. So a 15 min injury time shouldn't be considered outrageous if we count all the shenanigans that happened during the game. The finishing 2-1 Morocco win is totally fair. Argentina surely did not deserve to win. Apart from that, and just to be clear, no one in Argentina takes this team seriously. Mascherano has proven to be unfit to coach over and over again. He failed miserably during the U-20 WC Qualifiers, finishing second to last, and therefore should've not been in the U-20 WC. Since Indonesia was then banned due to political conflicts, and Argentina was the chosen as the new U-20 WC hosts (a complete disaster of it's own), he was given another chance and, what a surprise, yet another laughable, pathetic performance of his team. But at least Uruguay got to celebrate with their own in the end. In the Olympics Qualifiers, they got second place, behind Paraguay, who just lost 5-0 vs Japan. In fact, most will be surprised if the team even qualifies for the next round.

[@mikemoore5263]

On peacock they said the in studio English announcers for the match left and we're headed back to the hotel, we're called back to announce the last 3 min of the game, lol

[@prytooblack]

Brazil's women team played a whole extra game in added time before the final. This olympics were mad about added time

[@PunnyPanther]

Death, Taxes, Zealand needing to go for a run

[@PasOdMater]

What were they expecting in the Islamic Caliphate of France? This is just the start.

[@interrupted_reverie]

Xenophobic european at it again

[@WhtAbtBob10]

I absolutely love the insanity that the Men's soccer tournament bring to the Olympics. Especially in contrast to the seriousness of the women's competition.

[@ValensBellator]

I am 100% confident if they’d told everyone that the game wasn’t over yet the fans would have refused to leave the stadium. They probably decided to keep that to themselves until it was clear.

[@jon-michaelharris5840]

Everyone knows throwing mustard bottles on the field is the real classy move

[@Nico_M.]

Of course this is not based on anything, but I believe the decision of not releasing information was deliberate. As the security wasn't guaranteed, they probably wanted for the public to leave so they could continue the match, but if they announced that, imagine what would have happened.

[@jonnyryebread]

Was looking forward to this vid and it didn’t disappoint

[@Clarfeldt]

I don't think you need french to whistle in Moroccan games as they did that throughout the world cup and that made me hate their team. I wouldn't be surprised if it were Moroccans acting like this and not the french, which are one of the most passionate fans to start with

[@shogunboy2275]

No way my boy is wearing a Stallion Laguna shirt.

[@Glasstable2011]

Isn’t it the case that if someone *had* notified the world that the game hadn’t finished, the stadium wouldn’t have emptied, which was the whole point of the delay. However the ref really should not have added three minutes right at the end either so he made a rod for his own back

[@nickjeffery536]

Ok - not communicating that the game is not over was bad - but I get waiting to do the VAR check until the players return. A) it allows the ref to visibly check this in front of both teams (I assume the teams went back to their respective dressing rooms during the interruption) and B) given how volatile the crowd already was, checking and announcing it before clearing the stadium could have made the whole thing worse.

[@BeWe1510]

I hope the first day wasn’t indicative of the whole Olympics. I am extremely hyped for the event (not necessarily because of football) but the first day has been a disaster lol

[@BiHMaverick]

The Olympics are a great motivator to start running again!

[@muhammadryanelyeddari8631]

Premier League pitches should get invaded after every offside. If Premier League VAR had an hour and a half to look over offsides maybe they wouldn't get the decision wrong half of the time.

[@ganaed]

Yeah.... but what's going on in the 2nd division in Finland?

[@Hamlet517]

Still waiting about the MLS vs Liga MX All star game!

[@gabeh.4297]

why you have to wait is the refs also get evacuated along with the players but all the equipment to do VAR is on the field. At least that was my understanding.

[@rayeardley7618]

What remaining 3mins? 15 were called, 16 were already played, and there was still 3mins? How?!

[@csolivais1979]

Apparently, he added 3 more minutes for the last VAR check. Which is understandable. Added time that they announce is, approximately, the minimum amount to be played.

[@Nico_M.]

The referee can keep adding time, and for the same reasons (basically, if there are interruptions or time-wasting situations). And given the fact that those situations keep happening during stoppage time (it's not like they magically stop happening), it's not hard to imagine that after 15 minutes a few more minutes should be added.

[@h-m00212]

I'm moroccan, I didn't watch the game and i was so confused with everything happening, my first thought was "eh, i'll understand when zealand drops the video about it".

[@Jayvees]

Surely Olympics are cooking especially when it comes to Argentina vs. Morocco because they add over 16 minutes of extra time in the second half.

[@jasonnchuleft894]

From the outside this might look like a weird situation but I wouldn't be suprised if the announcement of the match status was delayed on purpose. After all several incidents in recent memories have shown that it can be rather hard to deal with an unruly crowd of football fans. So telling them the match is over and having them clear the stands before continuing the game sounds like a pretty safe solution. I can only imagine the scenes if they had tried to clear the stands by force .. that'd have been one way to turn the stadium into a warzone 🤨 Not to mention french stadiums haven't exactly had the best track record in crowd control recently..

[@Brookler]

Yes it was strange, not sure what should've been done differently though. Except better security of course.

[@BPaulthegreat]

As a Saint-Étienne fan...not surprised!

[@USmensnationalteam]

France's attempt to host a soccer tournament under prison rules has been an epic failure.

[@ni9274]

One match with problems =\= epic failure

[@RawMaterialENT]

if the places were reversed people would think Argentina robbed it..its pretty suss

[@grimaffiliations3671]

dont get what the robbery was? An offside goal was disallowed

[@b__c7538]

@@grimaffiliations3671Yes, and people would say it was a robbery still

[@dustykh]

I heard there was 15 minutes of stoppage during the us game, wondered what happened lol

[@jamesangus8504]

The match was fraught from the start because of the behaviour of the Argentine team after the Copa Americana. Their racist remarks about the French team and the French were broadcast over the internet. So the French hated the Argentine team. Heavy atmosphere looking for a way to express itself, and it found it at time of the second Argentine goal. Once the teams was off the field, I would imagine, not claiming to know, that they needed to be back on the field to continue the game in light of any VAR decision. So the VAR delay may be easily explainable in light of having to clear the field for the players’ safety.

[@BC-th3mx]

Nothing racist was said, anyone with an above room-temperature IQ knows that

[@somethingwithultra7231]

The whole football communication thing is honestly still such a weird thing about the sport. This is a sport where we can have one mistake being accidently woven into a result that will just stay for years. And yet when you have some mistakes like goalline technology not being there to confirm a goal, requests for fouls that clearly outright happened, and many other things. Being completely ignored sometimes after being initially brought up, even sometimes with no means of other officials actually properly correcting it when EVERYONE ON TV including opposition has seen the mistake. But when you've got something like an OG that arguably should be credited to another player, they "bring in the experts" to measure everything. What the actual fuck is going on with this sport sometimes???

[@betterscotch]

Another example against var. Not because any call was wrong, wrong calls will happen regardless of var. The controversy, the added time and the additional hours are a result of referees trained to work within a system that doesn't allow them the authority to control the match. All referees now know that any decision they make can be overturned during the game. Anyone working without authority to completely control their assigned task because a supervisor is watching over their shoulder is going to make more mistakes, be less decisive and whenever possible leave the decision to the overseer. Result: longer games, more controversy and stronger emotions. The referees should be viewed as parents and given that level of authority over proceedings. Save var for dishing out after-match penalties. During matches please VAR OUT!

[@ninjalectualx]

I've had enough of the dems and the repubs. Pulisic for President 2024!

[@ninjalectualx]

I don't care that he's not 35 years old yet. After he's elected he can simply change the law, the SCROTUS says he can

[@Cradien]

The LeBron James of presidents

[@williamcross210]

@@ninjalectualx It's in the Constitution so much harder to change

[@williamcross210]

@@Cradien He is old enough

[@v0n1b0]

@@williamcross210 You'd never get the 3/4 of the states for ANY amendment

[@Orc_Diplomat]

look its a lot of drama, but offside is offside. i get why the argentinians are mad but it doesn't change the result.

[@mananghildiyal2675]

Argentinians are not mad about the result, they are mad about the moroccan crowd

[@n.agustin113]

​@@mananghildiyal2675Exactly

[@philosopherking506]

Maybe I'm too American, but this seems to be a good example making the case for objective match timing.

[@TheH3LLP3R]

I wonder if there will be any calls for france not to host a world cup now the same way people were yelling at the USA for 1 copa match

[@lyonkennedy4892]

Shit so crazy it got Messi out of the shadows 😭

[@PoliAstroN]

I don’t like both sides in this Argentina vs France / African origin countries such as Morocco. They’re all making mistakes consistently and making it hard for others to like them. It’s not hard to be nice.

[@peoplelikefrank]

In germany we still suffer from what some pranksters did between 1933 to 45. cmon people!

[@jordylont1879]

Has Zealand just dropped working on his room and background or what

[@dariogutierrez6716]

Mascherano should have never walked the team back to the field lol. Absolute travesty of VAR use

[@latortuegeniale4261]

I’m french and fell ashamed

[@hiphappy1292]

If you want to empty a stadium you don't say "Yeah, sure, the match will restart" lol

[@jacobdaly553]

jason pierre paul reference

[@lizardlenny]

Moroccan fans robbed themselves of the opportunity to celebrate a victory over Argentina with the players at full-time.

[@jaquandrejones]

Argentina got more pens during the world cup than spurs did in the prem. "Earned" they say

[@adolfocoy7516]

Maybe the Olympics shouldnt have given 15 minutes of extra timme given the hostility

[@z0rO999]

19:43 did you just imply that it was the Moroccan who stole the Argentinian stuff? Putting the stealing and the firecrackers make it look it

[@Kotten84]

I think they probably did everything right, but due to the circumstances it looked a bit strange. The only question I have is why the ref had to go to the VAR screen. From what I've always heard, the ref don't check for offside and just go by what VAR says. It's either offside or onside and not down to a decision, unless of course it's a case of "is the player interfering" or something like that, but that wasn't the case this time. So the ref surely just have to show that VAR determined that it was offside and then play on. But that is really just a minor thing. When it comes down to it, the fact is that if the crowd hadn't decided to act like twats, there wouldn't be an issue. The ref would have called offside within a minute or two, then they would have played whatever time was left (according to the ref) and then the game would end. Would not have been a story. P.S. I'm so fucking tired of all the people running onto the pitch or acting like cretins in the stand. I wish we could identify them all and then ban them for life or atleast 20-30 years. Also, since the camera usually try to not show people running onto the pitch, can't the rest of the media do the same? What's the point of not showing it live, when I will be bombarded with pictures of the fuckers when I go to read the news?

[@v0n1b0]

Stadium security? Bring in the CRS and Gendarmerie Mobile

[@z0rO999]

14:28 tell that to the French Moroccans , why the hell they went to Rabat for an interview 😂

[@z0rO999]

The point is, what was the question they asked for the interview ? Did they tell them, about the firecrackers ?

[@colinupton5653]

What is "bance"?

[@jabo109]

That referee didnt have a clue about football, 2 moroccan bumped to each other and he ruled foul against Argentina, most of us argentines are ok with the ruled off goal, the thing is all that came after and the really poor security for an olympic game, ton of ppl getting into the pitch, firecracker got into the stadium (or were there already prepared) also set a weird precedent, so if my team had some wrong calls, all I have to do is tell to 3 or 4 fans to get into the pitch to try to delay the game, then go to VAR and make them watch the play again, or something like that? That game should have over after the goal, and Argentina shouldnt have showed up to the restart, security was compromised, and all that shit, doesnt matter if the stadium was empty. The correct thing here was, review the goal instantly, and then you suspend the match, or you suspend the match and the score remains, that is what happened since football was invented.

[@Alexeiyeah]

But the goal being given to Argentina would not mean a win for it. It would be a tie, 2-2. It's a pretty important detail, dude.

[@PadreDePato]

*Equalising goal

[@camerasanti4652]

Why arent people condemning morrocan fans? They were quick to shit on south americans during copa america, where is that same energy? Oh wait...