This sassy referee kept the crowd on their toes in an MLS game on Saturday night.
and Copa America underway this summer, soccer fans can seek a brief moment of reprieve—and hilarity—in a league that’s in a class of its own: the MLS.
Known half-jokingly as the destination where some of the world’s best soccer players go to retire (case in point: Argentinian icon and Inter Miami superstarThe moment was less an instance of tactical or technical brilliance than it was born out of the wit and humor of one very sassy referee named Filip Dujic.
In Atlanta United’s 1-1 draw against St. Louis CITY SC over the weekend, MLS ref Filip Dujic took it upon himself to explain a VAR ruling of St. Louis’s potential goal in the 39th minute. During his short time in the spotlight, Dujic turned what was meant to be a standard procedure into quite the comical bit.Dujic then smirked and raised his palm to silence the home fans.
“However,” Dujic continued, “prior to the goal, there was a foul committed by St. Louis. The final decision is direct free kick.”The VAR team had spotted a foul in the video review—St. Louis midfielder Eduard Lowen’s challenge on Atlanta’s Tristan Muyumba in the build-up of the attack—thereby nixing the goal and instead awarding a free kick.
The crowd was less than enthused after the call, but after all, the referee was just doing his job—and perhaps having a little bit of fun, too.If there's one thing that the football world should take from the MLS is this, refs explaining important decisionsKristen Wong is a Staff Writer on the Breaking & Trending News Team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020.
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