The National Team’s goalkeeper will be absent on the double date of the Qualifiers because he was suspended by FIFA. Learn more details.
Dibu Martínez will not play in the Argentine National Team this Thursday with Venezuela, at the Monumental Stadium of Maturín, since he will be absent on the double date of the Qualifiers because He was suspended by FIFA.
Why doesn’t Dibu Martínez play in Argentina vs. Venezuela
In the last double date in September, the goalkeeper starred in two moments that put him in the spotlight and ended in his suspension for two games (Venezuela and Bolivia): his gesture with the Copa América after the defeat of Chile and the hit a cameraman in Colombia a few days later.
It is that gesture, which he also made after the 2021 edition and on repeated occasions both with the World Cup and with the trophy for the best goalkeeper of that tournament, which did not go down well with FIFA and triggered the punishment. Situation that only worsened after the controversy at the Metropolitan Stadium in Barranquilla on his way to the locker room after the controversial 2-1 loss to the home team.
Dibu’s gesture with the Cup in the victory against Chile
“They blow the final whistle and as a steady operator cameraman I’m always going to look for reactions. I simply enter the field, I look for reactions. I see Drawing, I see him greeting a substitute goalkeeper I think, and I approach him. And out of nowhere “Dibu threw me”said operator Jhonny Jackson, who fell to the ground after the goalkeeper hit him.
“It made me angry, very angry, because I was working, just like he was doing, he was saving and I was operating my camera, I wasn’t even playing soccer with him. But I didn’t say anything to him.”he added. Even the Colombian Association of Sports Journalists issued a statement and demanded that “an exemplary sanction” to FIFA, which finally decided to suspend it for two dates.
The crossing of Dibu Martínez with a cameraman after the defeat of the Argentine National Team
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