Referee Sampaio causes England to be excluded from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar

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After the “VAR” ruling, which gave Japan the winning goal against its rival Spain in the group stage, and sparked a lot of controversy, the referees’ crisis loomed on the horizon again with Brazilian referee Wilton Sampaio, whom everyone accused of causing England’s loss and exit to the French team, with a score of 2- 1 in the quarter-finals.
Where referee Sampaio did not award a penalty kick achieved in favor of the English team, when Dayot Upamecano committed a foul on Harry Kane, he also awarded the player Bukayo Saka a free kick after a mistake by Upamecano, as it was a preparation for the opening goal that the French player hit Aurelien Tchoameni, to end the half. the first.
While the Brazilian referee tried to ignore the second penalty kick for the English team, had it not been for the VAR referee embarrassing him to be counted, and this is not the first match that witnessed clear arbitral injustice by referee Sampaio, but rather angered the national team and the Saudi public for his failure to grant player Matti Cash a second yellow card, which made He led Saudi Arabia to defeat Poland 2-0 in Group C competitions, despite his fame as a “yellow card referee”, as he distributed 105 yellow cards and four red cards during only 21 matches in the Brazilian League.