edinson cavaniforward of the Uruguayan team and Valencia, said that if he is sanctioned by the Fifa Disciplinary Commission for hitting the VAR monitor at the end of the elimination of the last World Cup in Qatar 2022 against Ghana, in which his team claimed two penalties , to the referee of that match, the German Daniel Siebert, “they have to put him in prison”.
‘They have to put him in jail’
“But If they penalize me for hitting the VAR, the referee, for having taken us out of the World Cup, they have to put him in jailbecause they are errors that, with the VAR, all the cameras and all the referees that are behind, cannot make them”, he recalled this Tuesday during an interview with ‘El Larguero’ from the ‘Cadena Ser’ on the eve of entering the game in the Spanish Super Cup, in the semifinals against Real Madrid.
On December 5, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee opened a file on Edinson Cavani, along with his teammates José María Giménez (he hit a FIFA official with his arm at the end of the match), Diego Godín and Fernando Muslera (for his protests to the referee), at the end of the match on December 2 against Ghana.
“It worries me (a possible sanction). Yes, of course it worries me, because it would mean being out of competition with my teammates, my club and my team. It worries me. But these are things that happen. But they have to put themselves a little on the footballer’s sidenot only from the referee and others, from the footballer’s side to see what has happened, why it has happened and why things have happened the way they have,” he explained.
“It’s okay that we have to maintain a behavior and so on, but we are human beings and when sometimes the things that happen on a court are lived with passion and you work so hard to get there and compete and this and the other and You have to live those situations, as it is not the first time we have had to live, it may also be that the reaction of a footballer inside can be, not justified, but a little more forgiven, “he added.
Cavani admitted that hitting the VAR monitor as he did “are things that are not done”. “But sometimes in football certain things and certain impotence sometimes lead you to react and certain things that sometimes escape you because of the adrenaline that we handle, because of that euphoria that we have at that moment, and we are wrong,” he pointed out.
🗣CAVANI in @The spar: “If they penalize me for hitting the VAR, the referee, for having taken us out of the World Cup, they have to put him in jail, because they are errors that, with the VAR, all the cameras and all the referees behind, cannot do”.pic.twitter.com/wFMlayrERg
— The B side of football (@lacarabdeporte) January 11, 2023
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