Rivaldo taking a fall cuz turkish guy "kicked" a ball at him...and rivaldo BS gets red card for that dude from the dumb ref.
I remember watching it all go down live and thinking that is such horseshit...wtf is this.
Damn, Turks have much reason to have vendetta against Brazil long term for that alone lol.
But the Brazil hubris taken down like that by Germans.... its German hubris that grows....thats a tough button for Turks to press too lol.
I think when it comes to the big teams and the big tournaments, its mostly corruption that decides who ultimately wins the tournament.
Even in the last euro's Turkiye knocks out austria in the round of 16, winning 2 - 1. Turkiye's best player merish demiral a defender who scored both goals that game throws the greywolf salute out. Something that represents the entire Turkic world, not just Turkiye. They use it as an excuse to get him banned. Turkiye then loses the QF against the dutch 2-1. Even some of those challanges the dutch did should have been straight reds.
So the reality when it comes to the world cup, they've already decided which of the big teams will win it. Every other team will only be allowed to make it so far. So basically 95% of the world cup teams playing will not be allowed to win it.
Another example of the two faced attitude. The entire norway team poses as viking, despite the vikings generally being accepted as brutal and violent. Then most far right racist groups cling to nordic/viking imagery. Some of the recent terrorist attacks on Muslims from the Christchurch shooting to others used viking/nordic symbolism to justify the racial attack.
No bans for them. Now me personally wouldn't take any offense over such a thing, but it shows you the two faced nature going on.
Another example was the french wanting to ban Turkiye from UEFA because the team saluting in the corner after scoring against them.
when they salute though its all good.
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