Argentina’s goal disallowed in their debut two hours after the final whistle, and they lose the match!

The opening match of the men’s football competition between Argentina and Morocco will go down in Olympic history as a historic embarrassmentThe match, which began at 3:00 pm on July 24 at the Saint-Etienne stadium – the same time as Spain – Uzbekistan – ended more than two hours after the game. the supposed final whistle of the match was blown and with a different marker.

To understand this unlikely situation, one must explain the context of the match. The Moroccan team, which was comfortably winning 0-2 against Argentinasaw how in the 105th minute of the match -and after Giovani Simeone’s goal that reduced the gap on the scoreboard-, Cristian Medina tied the match with a goal on the buzzer.

This fact was not well received by the African fans, who unleashed their anger against the Argentine players, considering that the referee had added too much time (15 minutes) for Argentina to score the goal in the last play of the match.

After the Argentine goal, the Moroccan fans launched numerous Firecrackers and other objects used against Argentine footballersand some fans even jumped onto the pitch, causing a chaotic situation, which forced the security forces to work hard to end the riot.

This situation caused the referee to have to end the match prematurely, although everyone generally interpreted this as the definitive end of the match… Nothing could be further from the truth.

The referee ordered the players to take to the field two hours later

But the farce had only just begun, as, almost two hours after the match ‘ended’, the referee told the players to return to the field. to resume the final moments of the match behind closed doorssomething that would have an unprecedented outcome.

And before restarting the final seconds of the match, the referee went to the VAR to check if Medina’s goal was legal… and it wasn’t: there was offside! After checking it, The referee raised his arm and pointed offside, so that Argentina’s goal was not going to go up on the scoreboard, to the enthusiasm of the Moroccans, who They couldn’t believe that, after two hours, they were going to win the match.

Finally, and after barely a minute of play, Swedish referee Nyberg definitively ended the clash, which has become in one of the biggest scandals in the history of Olympic football.