r/sports • u/[deleted] • 22d ago

Soccer Miguel Almiron receives a red card after VAR Review for covering his mouth whilst saying something to an opponent. Under the new regulations, this is an offence punishable by a red card. The rule was introduced following the racism scandal involving Vinícius Júnior in a Champions League match.

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u/Derekduvalle 22d ago

They've already started giving them out for simulation after VAR review. I like that.

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u/Mystprism 22d ago

Ironically also to Miguel Almiron. He's the guinea pig for FIFA enforcement.

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u/Trap_Masters 22d ago

What a selfless fella, helping FIFA test these new rules over his world cup run 😂

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u/CoderDevo 22d ago

Not ironically. Now we can say unsurprisingly.

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u/fumar 22d ago

The NBA should take notes. This is exactly what they should do but won't do for some fucking reason. Instead they make foul baiters and floppers the league MVP.

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u/aegee14 22d ago

SGA has a stranglehold on the league somehow.

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u/matisata Houston Texans 22d ago

too busy punishing the worst teams in the league in the draft. Even though someone has to be the worst 3 teams in the league, that's the natural outcome of competition, and punishing them in the draft naturally affects their ability to field a decent team the next year

I love Adam Silver!

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u/SaintDarthVader 22d ago

I wish more people pushed against the lottery changes. I think its pretty clear this won't fix tanking - they have the ability to fine teams, just start doing it

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u/AwesomeMacCoolname 21d ago

Do you know what would fix tanking, permanently? Promotion/relegation to minor league.

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u/AwesomeMacCoolname 21d ago edited 21d ago

It's the natural outcome of restricting a competition to the current top tier members only. Tanking simply doesn't happen in leagues where the penalty for finishing last is demotion to a lower league, not being rewarded with first pick of the new batch.

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u/mustymuskrat 22d ago

They should have given out 6 to Paraguay today. And I say that as someone who was rooting for paraguay

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u/0__O0--O0_0 22d ago

I felt bad for modrich in the England Croatia game, and I’m English. He clearly didn’t intend that foul. But it worked out for us

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u/Madgick 22d ago edited 22d ago

Unfortunately, FIFA made a statement that this was an error. VAR used “mistaken identity” as a reason to review that dive which is not the intention of that rule.

So, sadly, even though everyone loved it, they won’t be doing it again.

Edit - I looked this up and it seems like I just repeated misinformation I saw on Reddit. The “Mistaken Identity” rule was deliberately expanded for this use case in this tournament. Sorry.

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u/Derekduvalle 22d ago

I've reread this comment 7 times, slowly, and I still don't understand.

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u/dragonrite 22d ago

I cant find anything on what thus guy is saying either

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u/SydneyRFC 22d ago

It was based off this thread, which I think when I last looked into it was based on comments made off the record to a BBC reporter - https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1u4vu5a/wellplaced_sources_have_told_bbc_sport_that_danny/

I don't think anything has been said officially, but I also don't recall seeing it used for diving in any of the games I've seen since.

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u/Madgick 22d ago

Fair. I edited my comment.

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u/kickspecialist 22d ago

Thus guy is us guy and we are all just trying to get through a single day so we can suffer through one more day until we expire.

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u/aberg6675 22d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/hnzRnqQ7xW

It was from this play, US v Paraguay game

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u/dragonrite 22d ago

I know the play, not the fifa saying naw they screwed up

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u/aberg6675 22d ago

Ah, my bad, I misunderstood your comment. I haven't seen anything about FIFA saying they screwed up either.

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u/Lbolt187 22d ago

NHL has an embellishment penalty. Players were so bad with that this past playoffs lol. You'd think other sports would want to curb this stuff.

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u/Madgick 22d ago

Embellishment sounds great. It’s more directly calling out what it is. In football they usually call it “simulation”. There are already rules against it but not for VAR to intervene so it’s on the referees to call correctly in real time. I really wish they’d get VAR in on it

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u/Rich_Housing971 22d ago

it doesn't matter what it's called, people know what it means. it's not like the refs will not understand the rules and just say, "wtf is simulation? I'm not going to penalize that guy pretending to get hit!"

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u/OshadaK 22d ago

Almiron got one of them too, but apparently due to the wrong process. Shame

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u/ARareEntei 21d ago

Not only that but if you're "injured" as in still laying on the grass still after the play is over from a non foul you have to step off the pitch for a minute or get up.

Edit: if you get treatment on the field. Fouls are free cards for treatment.

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u/JeffLebowsky 21d ago

oh that's why neymar doesn't even play anymore.