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Diego Maradona apologized to FIFA after a frank attack on the referee for Colombia's defeat to England at the World Cup.
The Argentine captain winner of the World Cup in 1986 said that Colombia had suffered a "monumental flight" at the last meeting on Tuesday, after England was sentenced to a penalty for a fault on Harry Kane.
Maradona said that US referee Mark Geiger "knows a lot about baseball but has no idea of football" and also criticized Fifa for appointing the official to the game.
His remarks earned him a reprimand from the organizers of the Fifa tournament, which he is expected to pay Maradona about $ 10,000 (€ 8,550) a game as part of his ambassador program "Legends".
Maradona, 57, has now expressed regret for her comments in a post on Instagram.
He wrote: "Taken by the excitement of supporting Colombia the other day, I said a number of things and, I admit, some of them. between them are unacceptable My apologies to FIFA and its President
"As far as I sometimes have opinions contrary to certain arbitration decisions, I have absolute respect for the work – not easy – that make the institution and the referees. "
Maradona, who had been photographed in a Colombian jersey before the match, had accused the English players of having cheated Geiger and declared that the referee should have reconsider, then set aside, the decision of sanction
He declared to the Venezuelan television channel Telesur: a penalty, it was a fault of Kane … Why he did not used VAR?
"Today I saw a monumental flight on the ground." 19659002 "I screamed at the equalization of the Colo mbie as if i had been at the head of this ball because that is not possible. denounce this.
"As captain of legends, I must say [Fifa president Gianni] Infantino this can not be left like this.It is a fatal mistake for a whole country."
Fifa, the instance world leader, reacted to these remarks with a strong statement.
It is written: "FIFA vigorously condemns the criticism of the referees' performance which it considers to have been positive in a difficult and very emotional match.
" In addition, it also considers the additional comments and insinuations made as being totally inappropriate and totally unfounded. "
" At the time when Fifa is doing everything in its power to ensure that the principles of fair play, integrity and respect are at the very heart of the game. tip of this World Cup and Organizational Management, Fifa is extremely sorry to read these statements from a player who wrote the history of our game. 19659002] Maradona has been by far the most mediatized and controversial of the many Fifa Legends in Russia in 2018.
At one game, he was spotted breaking the anti-smoking laws of the stadium with a cigar lit and making an eye at an angle. d gestures towards some South Korean fans. At another time, he made offensive moves to Nigerian fans after an Argentine goal and then had to be cured after an apparent collapse.
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