International football
La selección de Argentina y Marruecos en su duelo en el torneo de fútbol de los Juegos Olímpicos París 2024

UNUSUAL DEFEAT OF THE 'ALBICELESTE' IN HIS DEBUT

Invasion, firecrackers and goal disallowed 2 hours later! Controversy in the Argentina-Morocco Games

Published:24/07/2024 - 22:19h

Updated:25/07/2024 - 01:32h

The Argentine team began its participation in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games soccer tournament on the wrong foot by losing 1-2 to Morocco in a scandalous match that was marked by a series of incidents that prolonged its duration for more than four hours

Calendar of FC Barcelona

Recently it has begun the tournament of masculine football in the Olympic games of Paris 2024 and already has arisen an extremely unusual situation that could be easily considered scandalous because of all the circumstances that surround it. This curious fact took place in the commitment between Argentina and Morocco (1-2), corresponding to the first day of the Group B, which had an unexpected quantity of incidents totally unusual, especially to the final stretch of the meeting.

In this point, the controversy that attracted more the attention was that the clash between both squares, that began to the 15:00 h (CET) in the stadium Geoffrey-Guichard of Saint-Étienne, concluded some four hours after having initiated, why? All unchained as a result of an annotation in the minute 106 by courtesy of the midfield player Cristian Medina, a target in a played totally unusual, after two balloons blocked and two shots to the crossbar. With this so much, the 'electronic' put 2-2 with the plus anímico that this goal arrived in the last minute of a time added prolonged of 15 minutes conceded by the collegiate Glenn Nyberg.

This target unchained an adverse reaction by part of a part of a sector of the parcialidad Moroccan, arriving to the point in which they launched bottles, glasses and even firecrackers to the terrain of game, culminating in an invasion of the field, an event that already had given several times during the party, although this time, the 'interested' of the 'Lions of the Atlas' that jumped to the terrain of game directed to the Swedish judge to reproach him his decision. In front of the inability of the security forces to control to the spontaneous that jumped from the terracing, the referee decided, by reasons of security, invite to the players to return to the changing rooms without pitar the end of the clash, leaving everything in suspense waiting for a resolution.

The unusual reason by which the Argentina-Morocco finished four hours afterwards

The surprising of all this is that this situation prolonged during roughly two hours. Although Nyberg and the International Olympic Committee apparently pleaded for to restart the meeting, the players denied to go back to the terrain of game by reasons of personal security. Nevertheless, once that selected returned to the field with a less hostile environment, produced a new and unusual event that marked the closing of a commitment that brushed between the absurd and the shameful.

When returning to the terrain of game, the Swedish referee, together with the footballers of both selections, proceeded to analyse the played of the controversial 2-2 to review a possible offside of Bruno Amione in the previous action to the goal of Cristian Medina. Finally, after the review of the VAR, determined that the player of the Saint Lagoon was slightly advanced, what drove to the cancellation of the played that unchained all this controversial reaction. They finished contesting three minutes more until the judge finished for signalling the term of the actions, confirming like this the victory of the combined Moroccan, that attained to impose with pair of annotations of Soufiane Rahimi (45+2' and 51').