00:00These children are going to have actually accounts.
00:02They're going to learn about.
00:03I wanted to ask you, can you describe your phone call with Johnny Infantino about the red card?
00:08And Belgium is appealing to the decision what you're asking about.
00:10You're asking me about the whole soccer thing?
00:12So, yeah, I did.
00:14I spoke to Johnny, who's highly respected,
00:17who's produced the most successful World Cup in history by, they say, four times.
00:23So I saw the play, and I'm a person that loves sports and was a good athlete.
00:29And I understand sports really well, really well.
00:34And that wasn't a foul.
00:36That wasn't even an infraction.
00:38That was two guys running full speed that happened to crash into each other.
00:42You can't take your foot and properly place it on somebody else's foot when you're going.
00:47No, these were two great athletes that got tangled up.
00:53And this referee, who is a little bit suspect, if you check his past.
01:02I don't want to say that because I don't like to create controversy.
01:06But very suspect.
01:09If you'd like, I'll provide you with the past.
01:12He made a call that nobody could believe.
01:15You know, even people on the other side, they said, oh, we got lucky.
01:19Wow.
01:19That's.
01:20And it's very interesting.
01:21They say they don't show them in slow motion.
01:23And I never realized that.
01:24I never heard of that before.
01:26That they're not allowed to review in slow motion because it's so different.
01:29Because you'll take one little quarter of a second and you'll see that a hand is touching a neck or
01:34you'll see something.
01:36Whereas when you see it in fast motion, it will look like two guys collided, which is really what happened.
01:41They got sort of entangled.
01:44He didn't do anything wrong.
01:46And he's our best player or one of our best players.
01:49He's a very vital player.
01:50And he gave him a red card.
01:51I didn't know what that meant.
01:52I didn't think it meant much.
01:53Then I started hearing that that means he can't play in the next game, at least in the next game.
02:00I said, boy, that's a big, you know, if it happened to another player, it would have been unfair.
02:05But when they take your best player or just about, they have some great players, but and they say you
02:11can't play.
02:13That's very unfair.
02:14That's, you know, it's one thing to penalize somebody for the game.
02:19But how do you penalize them for a game that hasn't been played yet?
02:22It's very unfair.
02:22You can't do that.
02:23So, yes, I asked for a review by FIFA.
02:28I spoke to a man who's highly respected.
02:31And by the way, whose level of respect has gone up tenfold.
02:36And he was good before this started.
02:38But, you know, he really pushed it in this country.
02:40I'm the one that got them to do it.
02:42But all I did, all I did, I asked for a review because I didn't think it was a foul.
02:48And, you know, again, I'm good at this stuff.
02:50I didn't think it was a foul.
02:51I thought it was two great athletes that crashed into each other and got entangled.
02:55That was not a guy punching somebody in the face or anything that, you know, would be different.
03:00And I think it's a terrible â if they wouldn't allow, you know, a top player, maybe the best, maybe
03:10among the best players on the team to play, I think it would have had a big stain.
03:16And I related just that feel.
03:17I didn't tell him what to do.
03:18I can't tell him what to do.
03:20But â and I don't believe he made the decision.
03:23I think it was a committee that made the decision.
03:25And they made the right decision because, number one, it wasn't a foul.
03:29And you want to see a game with your best players.
03:31You don't want to say, how would you feel if I took â you know, we take Messi out.
03:37Look, you know, he ran into somebody.
03:40Or we took Ronaldo.
03:42Ronaldo, Ronaldo, you bunked into somebody.
03:45We're going to take you out of a game.
03:46He's great.
03:47Well, Harry Kane.
03:48Harry Kane, we're going to take you out of the game, Harry, because you happen to hit somebody a little
03:53bit harder than â you can't â you can't do that.
03:56If you would have taken him out, I think â I think it would have really stained this incredible champion.
04:02We've got to have our best players, and they've got â Belgium's got a great team, by the way.
04:06We've got to have our best players, and they have to have their best.
04:09And if we win or we lose, it's fair.
04:12Otherwise, let's say we lost him and we lose the game.
04:17It would be a terrible thing.
04:19So I think they made a really brilliant decision.
04:22I think the referee's call was horrible.
04:24And nobody talks about that.
04:25They talk about the red card like it's fine.
04:28Nobody talks â the referee's decision to red card â I didn't know what the hell a red card was.
04:33When I found out, I said, you've got to be kidding.
04:35This guy just hands up.
04:36Okay, your best player's not going to play next week or in the next game.
04:41I said, wow, that's a lot of power.
04:43That's terrible.
04:44But then I looked at his past, and it wasn't so great.
04:49Okay.
04:50You
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