More than 200,000 French fans signed an online petition for a replay of the 2022 World Cup final match in Qatar, dissatisfied with some arbitral rulings, and, in response, from Argentina they launched a campaign to collect signatures so that the French fans “stop crying”.
The request, Formulated through the Change.org platform, He demands that the French accept that Argentina is the world champion and that they “stop crying.”
The petition, called “France stop crying” (www.change.org/FranceStopCrying), It has already gathered 256,000 adhesions.
On the French side, meanwhile, the fans of that country They complained about the arbitration shortlist led by the Polish Szymon Marciniak in the World Cup final that consecrated Argentina and more than 200,000 fans of the National Team signed an unusual online request on the MesOpinions site asking to repeat the match.
For them, it was not a penalty from Ousmane Dembelé to Ángel Di María; there was a foul prior to 2-0 and Messi’s goal (in extra time) had to be disallowed because the substitutes invaded the field before the ball crossed the line.
The Argentines have started a petition so that the French… stop crying. ? pic.twitter.com/ZhzRZnMEpL
– England Soccer (@Mercado_Ingles) December 23, 2022
The response from Argentina was not long in coming: “Since we won the World Cup final, the French have not stopped crying, complaining and do not accept that Argentina is the world champion. This petition is for the French to stop crying and accept that (Lionel) Messi is the best in the history of football and has (Kylian) Mbappé as his son,” says Valentín Gómez, promoter of the campaign to collect signatures.
