FIFA is angry at the declarations of Maradona 2018 World Cup

According to the 57-year-old Argentine, there was a "monumental deprivation" of the South American team when awarding a penalty to the English in the regular match , which England won after penalties.

FIFA has described this Maradona statement as inappropriate and unfounded. "We regret to read such statements from a player who wrote the history of football."

Referee Mark Geiger has distributed eight yellow cards in the hostile contest, six of them in Colombia. FIFA then qualified the appearance of the US umpire as "positive".

Diego Maradona is very present at the World Cup in Russia as a legend of FIFA. His appearance on the terrace, sometimes dormant and sleepy, but also sometimes fanatical and aggressive, still causes the necessary agitation in the stadium and in the global television audience.