Not only Messi is angry, worldwide reactions to the controversial Argentina vs Morocco match at the Olympics

The Argentina vs Morocco match at the Summer Olympics Paris 2024 was very controversial, and it had many football fans talking. The match lasted four hours after Morocco fans invaded the pitch and threw items at the Argentina players after Cristian Medina scored int he last minute to give Argentina a 2-2 draw. The referee suspended the match and let the players go back to the locker room but he never finished the game.

The referee allowed play to continue after more than an hour and a half and gave the game three more minutes. The referee checked the Argentina goal on VAR and disallowed it. The game finished 2-1 in favor of Morocco. Lionel Messi and many other Argentina players from the senior national team reacted to this controversy.

Messi posted a single word on his Instagram story to show his creation to the match. Messi wrote, "Unbelievable!" Nico Tagliafico, a World Cup winner with Argentina in 2022, wrote on X about the match, and he was furious. Tagliafico wrote, "Leaving the circus aside, are we going to talk about the reason the match was suspended or are we going to keep pretending it didn't happen? If the situation were reversed, I can't imagine what people would be saying."

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Nicolas Otamendi, the captain of the Argentina team at the Summer Olympics, spoke after the match and said, "It's a historic disgrace. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Morocco didn't want to play, and neither did we. We waited for an hour and forty minutes, but no one told us anything. It’s frustrating because these are the Olympic Games."

Javier Mascherano spoke after the match and revealed a crazy detail that happened before the match against Morocco. Mascherano said, "Yesterday, they broke into our property, and they robbed us. [Thiago] Almada's stuff was stolen. They ask us to show ID for everything, but then they let these things happen. Fireworks got thrown at us. They told us the game was over. Even Morocco didn't want to play."

He continued and said, "I don’t know what happened. We were in the locker room for almost an hour and a half. At no point were we informed about what could happen. As a player, I’ve never experienced security failing seven times in a match at this level. It was a disgrace. Today, they invaded the pitch seven times and then threw fireworks at us. They told us the match was finished 2-2. Neither we nor Morocco wanted to continue playing."

Geronimo Rulli's wife was in the stadium during the Argentina vs Morocco match, and she revealed that she had been kicked out of the stadium after being told that the game had finished 2-2. She was shocked when she heard that the game continued after it was suspended for nearly two hours. Rulli's wife wrote, "They kicked us out of the stadium, and they told us the match ended 2-2. Two hours later, we find out that they ruled out the goal and that they would play for three more minutes."

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Argentina's loss vs Morocco

Wednesday, July 24, 2024, will be remembered for this wild game of football in the Paris Olympics. The match was played at the Stade Geoffroy Guichard. Morocco took the lead in the 47th minute of the first half as Soufiane Rahimi scored the opener.

In the 49th minute, Rahimi scored his second of the game as he converted the penalty. In the 68th minute, Giuliano Simeone scored for Argentina. The referee added 15 minutes, and in the 16th minute of added time, Cristian Medina scored a header to tie the game. Two hours later, after the game was suspended for nearly two hours, the foal was disallowed by VAR for offside.