Yahoo Sports contributors Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros discuss the controversial no-call in the Gold Cup final. Hear the full conversation on the “The Cooligans” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.
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This is crazy.
I, please, Chat, Chad, let me know.
Do you think this is a handball?
I understand your, your, he, he makes a challenge.
His plant hand goes down.
And I understand if you are, maybe you’re trying to stop a cross, and your plant hand, uh, uh, you know, blocks the ball from going through.
I get that.
I know the, I know the rule, we’ve seen it enough.
But he, he, he makes a stop.
Great defense, goes to resettle himself, plant goes to put down his plant hand, palms the ball.
We’re, we’re looking at it.
Completely palms the ball.
Ref is like, no, keep it moving.
He’s, uh, that’s his plan, his plant hand.
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This is allowed?
I mean, he stops it with his leg, and then his hand helps him control it, and he, and he palms the ball to the ground.
Now, what’s, do we have the IFA rule?
No, I was looking for it and I couldn’t find it.
I’m like, the IFA app is mad difficult to search.
So they probably like deleting that right now.
They’re like, yo, hide it, hide it in the settings, so I can’t find it, but no, this feels to me like a handball, and I understand on the broadcast they were talking about the plant hand, and I get that if you’re trying to hold yourself up or stopping from falling and the ball hits that hand, there’s nothing you can do.
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This feels different.
This feels a little different.
This, I, I mean, I don’t, I, it’s weird to me that it’s not that much of a controversy.
Uh, Michael Rimmon said if someone kicks the ball at the hands, it’s a handball, right?
Yeah, like that’s, we understand that, we understand the concept of it.
I mean, again, if it was a different scenario where he stops the ball with his plant hand, I’m like, you know what, uh, it’s annoying for the US, but like that’s the rule.
Stopping the ball with your leg and then because you’re falling, you use your plant hand to completely put your, it’s not even like a touch, a finger, no no no, like what are we doing, slightly redirected my man straight up Jordan palmed the ball, you know, when you keep the ball away from your nephew, you know what I’m talking about, one of those little Fisher-Price balls.
I, and I don’t even think anybody would have been mad if they called the handball.
