00:00I wanted to ask you, can you describe your phone call with Johnny Infantino about the red card?
00:04And Belgium is appealing the decision.
00:05You're asking me about the whole soccer thing?
00:08So, yeah, I did.
00:10I spoke to Johnny, who's highly respected,
00:13who's produced the most successful World Cup in history by, they say, four times.
00:18So I saw the play, and I'm a person that loves sports and was a good athlete.
00:25And I understand sports really well, really well.
00:29And that wasn't a foul.
00:31That wasn't even an infraction.
00:34That was two guys running full speed that happened to crash into each other.
00:38You can't take your foot and properly place it on somebody else's foot when you're going.
00:43No, these were two great athletes that got tangled up.
00:49And this referee, who is a little bit suspect, if you check his past,
00:58I don't want to say that because I don't like to create controversy.
01:02But very suspect.
01:05If you'd like, I'll provide you with the past.
01:08He made a call that nobody could believe.
01:11You know, even people on the other side, they said, oh, we got lucky.
01:14Wow, that's...
01:16And it's very interesting.
01:17They say they don't show them in slow motion.
01:19And I never realized that.
01:20I'd never heard of that before, that they're not allowed to review in slow motion
01:24because it's so different.
01:25Because you'll take one little quarter of a second,
01:27and you'll see that a hand is touching a neck or you'll see something.
01:32Whereas when you see it in fast motion, it will look like two guys collided,
01:36which is really what happened.
01:37They got sort of entangled.
01:40He didn't do anything wrong.
01:41And he's our best player or one of our best players.
01:44A very vital player.
01:46And he gave him a red card.
01:47I didn't know what that meant.
01:48I didn't think it meant much.
01:49Then I started hearing that that means he can't play in the next game.
01:54At least in the next game.
01:56I said, boy, that's a big...
01:58You know, if it happened to another player, it would have been unfair.
02:01But when they take your best player or just about, they have some great players,
02:05and they say you can't play, that's very unfair.
02:10That's, you know, it's one thing to penalize somebody for the game.
02:14But how do you penalize them for a game that hasn't been played yet?
02:17It's very unfair.
02:18You can't do that.
02:19So, yes, I asked for a review by FIFA.
02:24I spoke to a man who's highly respected.
02:27And, by the way, whose level of respect has gone up tenfold.
02:32And he was good before this started.
02:33But, you know, he really pushed it in this country.
02:36I'm the one that got them to do it.
02:38But all I did, all I did, I asked for a review because I didn't think it was a foul.
02:44And, you know, again, I'm good at this stuff.
02:46I didn't think it was a foul.
02:47I thought it was two great athletes that crashed into each other and got entangled.
02:51That was not a guy punching somebody in the face or anything that, you know, would be different.
02:57And I think it's a terrible – if they wouldn't allow, you know, a top player, maybe the best, maybe
03:06among the best players on the team to play, I think it would have had a big stain.
03:11And I related just that feel.
03:13I didn't tell him what to do.
03:14I can't tell him what to do.
03:15But – and I don't believe he made the decision.
03:19I think it was a committee that made the decision.
03:21And they made the right decision because, number one, it wasn't a foul.
03:24And you want to see a game with your best players.
03:27You don't want to say, how would you feel if I took – you know, we take Messi out.
03:33Look, you know, he ran into somebody.
03:36Or we took Ronaldo.
03:38Ronaldo, you bunked into somebody.
03:41We're going to take you out of a game.
03:42He's great.
03:43Well, Harry Kane.
03:44Harry Kane, we're going to take you out of the game, Harry, because you happen to hit somebody a little
03:49bit harder than – you can't – you can't do that.
03:51If you would have taken him out, I think – I think it would have really stained this incredible champion.
03:58We've got to have our best players, and they've got – Belgium's got a great team, by the way.
04:02We've got to have our best players, and they have to have their best.
04:05And if we win or we lose, it's fair.
04:08Otherwise, let's say we lost him and we lose the game.
04:13It would be a terrible thing.
04:15So I think they made a really brilliant decision.
04:17I think the referee's call was horrible.
04:20And nobody talks about that.
04:21They talk about the red card like it's fine.
04:23Nobody talks – the referee's decision to red card – I didn't know what the hell a red card was.
04:29When I found out, I said, you've got to be kidding.
04:31This guy just hands up.
04:32Okay, your best player is not going to play next week or in the next game.
04:37I said, wow, that's a lot of power.
04:38That's terrible.
04:39But then I looked at his past, and it wasn't so great.
04:45His past, he loved it.
04:45That's his last – goodbye.
04:50It's a bit.
04:50I went to college.
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