6 international lecturers from 3 continents: No penalty kick for Bani Yas in front of Shabab Al-Ahly

The FIFA Referees Committee, represented by the Director of the Referees Department, Ali Al-Tarifi, and the technical director of the committee, former international referee Khaled Al-Dokhi, confirmed during a briefing today with the media, which was held at the Federation's headquarters in Dubai, the validity of the arbitration decisions made by the arbitration team led by Hamad Ali Youssef in the meeting between Bani Yas and Shabab Al-Ahly in the semi-final of the President's Cup last Monday, and saw the "Dubai Knights" win 1-0 and qualify for the final match.

The committee said that it had hired six international lecturers from three different continents from Europe, Africa and Asia, the controversial cases were sent to the match, each of them individually and they all agreed that there was no penalty kick in favor of Bani Yas, since the musk did not affect the case.

The cases that have caused widespread controversy in the past hours are the case of the dismissal of Bani Yas player Joao Victor "55" for obtaining the second warning due to his use of excessive force in addition to the direct expulsion of player Bani Yas Khamis Al Hammadi "89", as well as the cancellation of the goal of Lubani Yas scored by Suhail Al Noubi 34 ", in addition to not counting Lubani Yas's kick, because Khomeiz was blocked and grabbed from the back inside the penalty area.

Al-Tarifi said during the media briefing: As for the canceled target of Bani Yas, the cameras and video technology showed an infiltration case of his player, who was ahead of the last defender of Shabab Al-Ahly by 6 mm, so the referee’s decision was correct. He added: As for the dismissal of the player Joao Victor, for obtaining On two warnings, there was a case before the second warning that required his dismissal with the red card, and in the end the decision is correct. "

Al-Tarifi added: The decision to expel Khamis Al-Hammadi directly with the red card was correct for his use of extra force with the opponent. ”Al-Tarifi and Khaled Al-Doukhi confirmed during their review of the arbitration cases that accompanied the match and presented it on the video, that as for not counting a penalty kick for Bani Yas, after Khomeiz fell inside the penalty area , The referee's decision was correct due to the fact that the catch to which the player was subjected did not affect the case.

Al-Tarifi stressed that arbitration errors are a major part of football, and no one expects it to end, stressing that the game must accept its mistakes, pointing out that the referee applies what he learned during the arbitration sessions.

He stressed that everyone was wondering about the time it takes to judge the video, indicating that verifying the validity of the case or not is more important than time.

Al-Tarifi continued: The secret of the common factor between the expulsion of two Bani Yas players is that they were targeting Shabab Al-Ahly player Kartabiya to reduce his risk, and that the role of the referee is to protect the players.    

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