Argentina-Marocco is a case, Mascherano furious
The words of Javier Mascherano
It's all happened in Saint-Etienne in Argentina-Morocco, the opening match of the Paris 2024 Olympics, including brawls, pitch invasions, a match suspended and resumed with var after 2 hours and an appeal coming to not homologate the result.
"This è was the most sensational circus I have ever seen in my life – Javier Mascherano vented at the end – "While we were training, someone è entered the locker room and robbed us, all this at the Olympics, think about it’. They took a watch from Thiago Almada, we didn’t want to say anything but today we went beyond that. Today they invaded the field seven times and then they threw firecrackers".
" They told us it was over 2-2. Even Morocco did not want to resume,” he revealed.
We were an hour and a half in the locker room, where at no time were we told what could happen, they never warned us. Our position was not to play it anymore because they threw a million things at us, the game è it was stopped seven times…. It è never happened to me as a player that in a game of this level the security fails seven times, seven times it failed!".
"The second half for me è as if it was never played. Had you ever seen that the game stops seven times becauseé one time one comes in, one time another…. And then the firecrackers that grazed us. Firecrackers and bottles. All of it è è unbelievable. It è was played very little. We were not told that the Var was deciding. The game è was suspended for security reasons, at no time did they tell us that. The official website of the Olympic Games always put 2-2 as the final result. The referee? Never appeared".
"I don't remember anything at this level where the game is suspended for an hour and a half, then you warm up for ten minutes and then play three minutes. Here, of course, it has nothing to do with Morocco as a team. &Eegrave; what è happened on the field that è was a scandal. It è not a neighborhood tournament, it is the Olympics. How do you not stop the game because è for 7 times someone enters the field? The second or third time you have to make a decision".
