It was not only against France that the Albiceleste benefited from questionable whistles, according to Grégory Schneider.
After Lionel Messi, named best player of the World Cup, Emiliano Martinez, best goalkeeper, Enzo Fernandez, best young person, and Kylian Mbappé, who finished top scorer thanks to his eight goals, another actor of the World Cup has been honored by FIFA. The Italian Daniele Orsato has indeed been named the best referee of the World Cup.
A distinction that made Grégory Schneider react. “The crap that unseated the Croats in the semi-finals of the #QatarWorldCup2022. We don’t dream. Afterwards, when you render service…”, wrote the Liberation journalist on Twitter. After a very balanced half-hour, the meeting settled on a penalty awarded to the Albiceleste for a fault that was questionable to say the least.
Modric had cried foul
« It was not a penalty for me. I’m not used to talking about referees, I don’t like to do that, but today it’s impossible not to. It’s one of the worst I’ve been to. Not just for today’s game. He refereed me several times and I never have good memories of him. It’s a disaster”had reacted Luka Modric at the end of the meeting.
This is not the first time that Grégory Schneider has pointed out the favorable refereeing decisions enjoyed by the Albiceleste during their victorious run in Qatar. « I am very uncomfortable with the penalties Lionel Messi got during the World Cup. You also have to look at how the story was written. The last two penalties have a profound influence on what happened and stick in my throat, he recently confided on the set of L’Equipe du soir. He was still sometimes short-scaled. He’s a great player, that doesn’t take anything away, but for me there’s something unsatisfying about that and a bit perverse. Five penalties, that had never happened and that’s a lot.»
