{"id":485614,"date":"2024-07-25T09:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T13:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485614"},"modified":"2024-07-25T09:13:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T13:13:12","slug":"argentina-complain-to-fifa-about-olympic-match-chaos","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/argentina-complain-to-fifa-about-olympic-match-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina complain to FIFA about Olympic match chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Argentina Football Association (AFA) have made an official complaint to FIFA&#8217;s Disciplinary Committee after the incidents during yesterday\u2019s 2-1 defeat against Morocco in their 1<sup>st<\/sup> match of the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>A pitch invasion by Moroccan supporters after Argentina&#8217;s Cristian Medina had netted in the 15<sup>th<\/sup> minute of the additional time led to a 2-hour delay as the clash in Saint-\u00c9tienne was eventually resumed and finished in an empty venue.<\/p>\n<p>Bottles, cups, and firecrackers were thrown at Argentinian footballers while they celebrated the equalizer.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentina Football Association shared on social media that they complaint to the football governing body demanding the &#8220;necessary regulatory measures to be in place for an event of such magnitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Argentina manager Javier Mascherano described what happened as &#8220;the biggest circus I have ever experienced in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AFA chief Claudio &#8216;Chiqui&#8217; Tapia has insisted that the fans who caused the chaos face consequences for their action.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 JUST IN: The AFA has submitted a formal complaint to FIFA&#39;s Disciplinary Committee. \u2696\ufe0f\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7<\/p>\n<p>Chiqui Tapia: &quot;It was regrettable what we had to experience today as Argentinians in Saint-\u00c9tienne. Waiting almost two hours in the locker room, only for our players to have to go back\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RB3IwqKgw2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RB3IwqKgw2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All About Argentina \ud83d\udece\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 (@AlbicelesteTalk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlbicelesteTalk\/status\/1816223901506298092?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Argentina Football Association (AFA) have made an official complaint to FIFA&#8217;s Disciplinary Committee after the incidents during yesterday\u2019s 2-1 defeat against Morocco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485615,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17143,17367,19980],"news_category":[14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17906,19981,432],"acf":{"announce":"The South American country made a FIFA complaint.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485616,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485614\/revisions\/485616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485614"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485614"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}