must have cancel Szymon Marciniak, Polish referee of the World Cup final, the Leo Messi’s second goal, which gave Argentina an advantage on the scoreboard (3-2)? This is controversy which was opened to France from some television images where it can be seen how at least two substitutes for albiceleste invade the land before the end of the ’10’ the ball crosses the goal line.
The newspaper L’Équipe, for example, echoed this controversy, stating that Marciniak the action must be invalidated. and picking up the Article of the regulation on which he bases his statement.
This is done by citing, in particular, article 9 of Rule 3 of the IFAB Laws of the Game 22/23.
The said article specifies that “If after scoring a goal and before resuming play, the arbitrator finds an unauthorized person was on the field of play at the time the goal was scored (…) the goal must be cancelled if the unauthorized person is:
• a player, alternativesubstituted player, dismissed player or member of the coaching staff of the team that scored the goal; Play is restarted by a direct free kick from the unauthorized person’s position”.
Since there were two Argentine players, therefore ‘from the team that scored the goal’, who invaded the field, The French argued that the goal should be void and taking a direct free kick in favor of the French team “from the position of the unauthorized person”. Controversy free because FIFA will never ‘re-arbitrate’ the match but it ‘discovered’ a possible serious mistake by the referee in the final in Qatar.
Source: La Verdad
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