U23 Vietnam defeated referee Muhammad Taqi
(Baonghean.vn) - In the semi-final match between U23 Vietnam and U23 Qatar this afternoon (January 23), the referee awarded Qatar a penalty kick and many situations of calling penalties on the Vietnamese team caused a stir in the online community.
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| Referee Muhammad Taqi officiated the difficult match between host China and Uzbekistan. He was rated by the AFC as having done a very good job in this match. Photo: ST. |
Referee Muhammad Taqi, 32 years old, full name Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari. He is one of the most famous referees in Singapore and Mr. Taqi was the main referee in the match between Bayern Munich and Chelsea in the 2017 ICC Cup which took place last summer.
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| Image of the referee on his personal Facebook. |
Mr. Taqi is a FIFA-class referee and last June, when a diplomatic dispute broke out between the Gulf countries, forcing FIFA to reassign the referee teams in the 2018 World Cup qualifying matches involving the Gulf countries, in order to not "make things difficult" for the parties involved, Mr. Taqi was assigned by FIFA to officiate the Thailand-UAE match instead of the Qatari referee team.
Mr. Muhammad Taqi is also one of four Southeast Asian referees assigned by the AFC to work at the 2018 AFC U23 Championship. The other three are Mr. Nguyen Trung Hau (Vietnam), Koh Min Kiat (Singapore) and Mohd Yusri Mohamad (Malaysia).
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| Mr. Muhammad Taqi has many years of experience as a referee. |
The controversial situation occurred in the 39th minute. Tien Dung collided with Almoez Ali in the penalty area when the Qatar player received a free kick from his teammate. Singaporean referee Muhammad Taqi immediately blew the whistle for a penalty, helping Akram Afif open the score.
Reviewing this situation, many commentators said that this was too harsh a decision.
Not only that, in the situation where a Vietnamese player fell right in front of the Qatar team's penalty area, the referee did not blow the whistle for a foul on the Qatar player despite the obvious foul. The live TV camera immediately focused on the referee, even taking a close-up of the FIFA lettering on his shirt.
However, despite being disadvantaged by the decisions of the "man in black", our team played a brave and beautiful match and had a victory that could not have been more wonderful!
Review the situation where referee Muhammad Taqi blew the penalty.
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