{"id":1261615,"date":"2022-12-05T10:21:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/05\/uruguay-coach-weep-over-world-cup-exit\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:21:53","slug":"uruguay-coach-weep-over-world-cup-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/05\/uruguay-coach-weep-over-world-cup-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay Coach &#8216;Weep&#8217; Over World Cup Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Diego Alonso<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After being eliminated from the World Cup despite a 2-0 win against Ghana last Friday, Uruguay coach Diego Alonso blamed his country\u2019s failure to get out of the group stage on an officiating error in the team\u2019s previous game against Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are out because of Portugal\u2019s penalty and goal difference,\u201d Alonso said through a FIFA translator. \u201cIt\u2019s not the point [from a 0-0 draw against South Korea], rather to the contrary. We are not out because of that point. It\u2019s because of the penalty that was awarded in extra time that, according to FIFA, was not a penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The penalty in question came on a play in the 89th minute when Portugal were leading 1-0. Uruguayan defender Jose Maria Gimenez made a sliding challenge in the penalty box and the ball grazed his hand while he was extending it to brace himself as he fell backward.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Alireza Faghani of Iran initially did not call for a penalty, but was advised to consult a VAR review, which led to the decision. Bruno Fernandes converted the penalty to make the score 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso has a legitimate gripe in the wake of the International Football Association Board\u2019s (IFAB) clarification of the handball rule in 2021, when it said the penalty shouldn\u2019t be called when \u201carm position is for support when falling or when getting up from the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Alonso \u00a0 After being eliminated from the World Cup despite a 2-0 win against Ghana last Friday, Uruguay coach Diego Alonso blamed his country\u2019s failure to get out of the group stage on an officiating error in the team\u2019s previous game against Portugal. \u201cWe are out because of Portugal\u2019s penalty and goal difference,\u201d Alonso [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1261616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1763,262,1972,6994,16328,784],"class_list":["post-1261615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-coach","tag-cup","tag-exit","tag-uruguay","tag-weep","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}