FIFA Issue Statement Overnight as Officials State Argentina Decision Broke Rules
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The International Football Association Board (Ifab) has concluded that video refereeing in two World Cup situations breached protocol. FIFA denies that any mistakes were made and defends the decisions.
Spanish media have denied the public's assumption that Breel Embolo's red card in Switzerland's match against Argentina at the 2026 World Cup was recognized as a mistake by the IFAB.
The case of Embolo becomes a power struggle. The top rule keepers of the world football declared Embolo's World Cup red inadmissible. Now the Fifa and the referee think against it. The controversial reference to space becomes an open dispute over the interpretation of the football rules.
IFAB issued a circular acknowledging that the VAR should not have intervened to change the second yellow that ended with the expulsion of the Swiss
The International Football Association Board (IFAB), the body that sets the rules of the sport, declared on Tuesday that the sending-off of Swiss player Breel Embolo against Argentina in the quarterfinals of the 2026 World Cup was an erroneous and arbitrary decision. In a statement signed by the organization's Secretary General, Lukas Brud, it was specified that there had been an "over-interpretation" of the rule regarding mistaken identity. "A …
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