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[Guri Guy]

Interesting excerpt from a World cup blog.

Big Question: Which has been the most poorly officiated match?

The Switzerland-Korea game got no responses. Apparently everyone except for Koreans thought it was decent refereeing.

http://www.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2006/big-question-which-has-been-the-most-poorly-officiated-match.html#more-1545

[Zulu]

[Zulu]

[SMKOREA]

any student of mine that says "op saheeduh" tomorrow is getting double homework.

[spinario]

By rule, the play was not offside.

However, by rule, if the linesman holds up his flag, the play is dead.

Goal should have been disallowed. Anything that happened after the scoreboard read 2-0 was a fallacy.

And to suggest that Korea wouldn't have scored a goal is conjecture.

[Rteacher]

I watched the game live on ESPN and the commentators - one British - were very adamant that it was a blown call.

[Billy Pilgrim]

The Koreans should have played to the whistle, not that I think they could have stopped the goal anyway. However, it is a legitimate gripe, becasue a flag going up like that is going to halt the defenders.

I never understood the rule saying that it is flicks of a defender, players are automatically onside. If they play at it, okay. But it makes it a huge grey area, and should be made much simpler.

[Zulu]

[Guri Guy]

If you really wish there is an online petition for you to sign.

http://www.petitiononline.com/wc06pet/petition.html

To: F�d�ration Internationale de Football Association(FIFA)

The South Korea v.s. Switzerland match(6/24/06) in the 2006 World Cup was a fraudulent game that clearly showed cases of poor ethics and incompetent judgement by the referee Horacio Elizondo. He awarded the Swiss team a goal in the 77th minute despite the fact that an offsides flag was raised by the assistant referee Rodolfo Otero. The reasoning in doing away with the offsides call was that the ball was put into the path of Alexander Frei after deflecting off Lee Ho's foot. According to the FIFA regulations, deflections DO NOT count as possession, so the pass to Frei was nothing short of offsides. Whether if the FIFA administration agrees with the claim on this controversial goal or not, this was a faulty motion on the part of the referees. Also, handling was never issued to the Swiss defender Patrick M�ller in the 42nd minute, who clearly touched the ball that was coming towards the Swiss goal from a corner kick and was inside the penalty area. The same misjudgement on handling occurred again by the Swiss 8 minutes into the second half. The referee was also in the way of the South Korean player Kim Nam Il and interfered by kicking the ball. The game consisted of a number of unprincipled calls by Elizondo and the confusion created from his judgement led to an eyesore of a game. The match was very unbalanced in terms of fairness of calls from the referee and this issue must be resolved. South Korea's national team should be compensated for this disadvantage served by Elizondo, either a fair game should take place between South Korea and Switzerland as reimbursement or Elizondo should be fired from refereeing internationally for the sport of soccer/football. Horacio Elizondo's brash decisions were fatal to the morale and play of the South Korean team and were big factors in the outcome of the game. His interferences and maladroit performance as a referee cannot just go without punishment.
Because of his substandard skills as an international referee, the South Korea v.s. Swiss match was a mix-matched jumble of pure confusion: it was not a properly officiated World Cup soccer game, but was more like hogwash thanks to the inferiority of Horacio Elizondo and his highly questionable ethics in refereeing an international soccer game.


I admit Fifa does lack a little wisdom in choosing their referees. Apparently Elizondo played in Switzerland (or for them, not sure) and has a Swiss wife. Koreans will get even madder now.

[Zulu]

That is the most pathetic petition I've ever seen.

[Guri Guy]

It's gathering steam. 73 signatures. It had 71 when I posted the info.

[JLarter]

Haha, a petition would solve nothing!!!

[JJK1]

[fruitcake]

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