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The Chilean team was openly prejudiced for the arbitration charges, after an unsanctioned penalty conditioned the match against Uruguay at the Centenario Stadium, giving the locals a full advantage on the first date of the qualifying rounds towards Qatar 2022.
Although La Roja’s claims are perfectly supported by the regulations, and the scandalous robbery of the Chilean team is clearly evident, there are a few who support the decision of the match judge not to whistle the maximum penalty.
Javier Castrilli, once an Argentine referee, took the side of the Paraguayan Eber Aquino, supporting in an unusual way his decision to blind eyes to the hand of Sebastián Coates in the area:
“It is not a Coates penalty, the arm is attached to the body, the player wants to remove his arm, he did not stay static,” the trans-Andean commented to Sport 890.
But also, and to warm up even more, Castrilli detailed the criteria that according to him make Coates’ offense not worth the maximum penalty:
“If you don’t understand this, you don’t understand what a hand is. Players can’t walk like ‘teletubbies’ on the court,” snapped the former international referee.
The hand of Coates leaves little room for interpretation, so Eber Aquino should have taken a penalty in favor of La Roja.
Anyway, and Although there are still skeptics, the truth is that the FIFA Soccer Rules, in this case, leave little room for interpretation and Eber Aquino’s charges clearly violated what was established.
After the blatant robbery suffered by the Chilean team of Reinaldo Rueda, the ANFP will make a formal claim requesting sanctions for the referee, whose bad decisions harshly conditioned La Roja on the first day of the qualifiers heading to Qatar 2022.
