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>FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.

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> talkSPORT understands the White House put pressure on FIFA to review the decision, and made a direct call to ask their president Gianni Infantino to review the red card.

> FIFA sources insist White House influence could not affect the decision due to the powers contained in Article 27 and the independent nature of the disciplinary panel.

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During the Winter Olympics, when Canada or the US play a weak country, like France or Kazakhstan for example, match day threads are always very respectful and even encouraging to the lesser side. "Good game" "You guys tried hard, you did well!" etc.

By contrast, Moroccan fans were much more dismissive, elitist and borderline disgusted to even share the pitch with our "weak" team. When it got to 2-0, the vitriol and angst really got wild!

I was trying to remember if I witness the same level or disrespect when the shoe was on the other foot, but im pretty sure it isn't that vile.

Considering that USA and Canada are pretty much the only countries in the 16 that dont have soccer as their favorite sport (maybe Norway?), it must piss some other countries off that we made it further than them lol.

TLDR: We can self-flagelate all we want in NA, but as a whole, we're a lot more welcoming and respectful of other countries taking parts in "our" sports than they are of us "daring" to participate in theirs...

Hey guys, I'm just a random french guy.

While I hope that my team wins, if France must lose, I hope it will be against Morocco and that your team will win the tournament. Your team worked hard, played well, and I love how your sub is benevolent and not racist like so many other subs.

If you were to lose, I hope you will still be proud of the hard job your team made, especially with how it sometimes felt like the referee was acting for the other team.

May one of us win this cup, I wish you the best.

And now the french team are asking to cancel olise red card should the moroccan team ask for card cancellation of some of the yellow card we havd ?

Today norway a team ranked 21, walked into a game with brazil and stood their ground and dominated they didn't care about vini or ancelotti or anything else, they focused on themselves and they carried the day. This is spirit we need for the upcoming match, you can't face an opponent if you keep belittling yourself. In the pitch we are equal.

"If Canada converted their chances , they would have won"

"If Davies played , we would have easily won"

->Morroco got dominated

-> look inside

-> got negged 3-0

"B-b-but we couldn't convert our chances we did dominate you 🥺🥺🥺"

Canada:3 shots on target and 1 dangerous chance , Morroco: 4 shots on target 3 dangerous chances

If this is Morocco getting dominated then wtf would have happened if we were in our day ? Embarrassing.

How did y'all find today's Norway's performance ? It scared me tbh even more than France and Argentine, Even If we win against France you we'd stand a chance against them ?

حتى فرنسا غادي تودع إن شاء الله 🙂

I feel like not enough people talk about this, but is there any confirmation whether it's a hamstring injury or not? Sofascore has him listed as a hamstring injury, but I can't find any confirmed news about it.

When we were playing with Brazil and even Scotland I was super stressed, also with the netherlands. I was really about to shit my pants but awkwadly now I feel zero stress. Is this normal ?? 🙄🙄

I really hope saibari can still play for Morocco in the France game after the hamstring injury, do you guys know what stage it is or if he’ll be recovered enough for the game on Thursday because they gotta give it everything they got and without him it’s just gonna be even harder.

Two very odd things happened yesterday.

In the Moroccan match, ref Michael Oliver was tolerant of the Canadian side wrestling our players and bodying them while handing us yellow cards at any soft touch. Even Hakimi barely opening it got him a yellow card when i saw with my two eyes Canadian players bossing him and shouting at him with no sanction. It only ended after the 1st half when Ouahbi stepped in was captured shouting at the ref.

The 2nd odd thing happened to France who were facing the same treatment against the Paraguayans. The paraguayans were fouling them yet they were the ones to take yellows.

To anyone who doesn't know it, a yellow card carries onto the next game, and if a player takes a second yellow, they are suspended. They cannot continue the game nor can they play in the next game (semifinal).

Here's a list of all the players with yellows:

• Barcola
• Olisé
• Manu Koné
• Achraf Hakimi
• Ounahi
• El Khannous
• Halhal

In the meantime, an actual suspension on Balogun was just lifted in clear violation of the rules.

Whats all this about guys? I see the media trying to downplay us and say they are not moroccans, like wtf, and comments about it too, i never seen a french named ayoub bouadi, even the players who scored yesterday were pure local talent, as if french players are actually french, what do you think about this bs?