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The runner-up with the Netherlands in Brazil 2010 and former Real Madrid and Inter Milan player, Wesley Sneijder , confessed from Doha Qatar, where the World Cup is being held in 2010, that Rafa Márquez’s penalty on Arjen Robben in the quarterfinals of that edition It was an arbitration error.
The statement was obtained thanks to a fan of the national team Mexican who met the mythical midfielder in a store and asked him about this fact. The fan, who was wearing a Tri shirt, responds to the name of Charlie Estefan.
In the video shared on Twitter you can see the moment in which the fan tackles Sneijder and he acknowledges that this action was not really criminal. “It was not criminal, what do you want me to do? He was the referee”, Wesley acknowledged eight years after that controversy at the Castelão Arena in Brazil.
Sneijder He was one of the protagonists of that historic fifth game for Mexico by putting the tie at the minute 88 in a match that the Aztecs dominated on the scoreboard.
Already in extra time, Arjen Robben made an internship in the Mexican area and Rafa Márquez put his leg in, but without impacting To the extreme. The referee Pedro Proença signaled a penalty and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar converted from eleven steps.
From that moment on, social networks exploded with indignation and the famous hashtag “#NoEraPenal” became a trend. That whistle error hurt Mexico’s aspirations to advance to the semifinals of the World Cup for the first time in its history.
Wesley Sneijder was also recently in the news in the Aztec nation for a comment on the situation of midfielder Edson Álvarez at Ajax in Amsterdam.
“Edson Álvarez plays all the balls backwards or to the sides, it is useless. They should have taken him to London quickly. They could have signed two good players for that amount of money”, he told ‘Voetbal International’.
This Saturday those led by Gerardo ‘Tata ‘ Martino will face off against Lionel Messi’s Argentina in the second match of Group C. The Albicelestes eliminated Mexico in the editions of Germany 1200 and South Africa 2010.
Now , a victory for the Aztecs would cause an unexpected elimination of the current champions of America and would outline El Tri to the round of 16.
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