北京时间7月16日凌晨3点，2026美加墨世界杯半决赛，阿根廷队将在美国亚特兰大迎战英格兰队，双方即将上演“宿命对决”。
据体坛周报，近日，一份要求取消阿根廷世界杯参赛资格的请愿书发布在某网站上。截至目前，该网站的投票数已经突破900万。此前，阿根廷主帅斯卡洛尼曾回应“裁判偏袒”问题：VAR时代偏袒“难如登天”。
More than nine million people have signed an online petition demanding Argentina's expulsion from the World Cup, amid allegations of referee favouritism that the team's manager has dismissed as impossible to pull off in the VAR era.
该请愿的标题为“将阿根廷踢出（Kick Argentina Out）”，正文写道：很明显，国际足联和裁判们偏向梅西和阿根廷。当冠军已被内定，世界上其他国家为什么还要去竞争呢？把阿根廷踢出世界杯，给其他人一个公平的机会。
The petition, hosted on argentinaout.com, went viral recently after calling for the reigning world champions to be disqualified from the tournament in North America.
Its organisers claim that FIFA and match officials have actively favoured Argentina and their captain, Lionel Messi.
"It is obvious that FIFA and the referees are biased toward Lionel Messi and Argentina," the petition read. "Why should the rest of the world compete when the winner has already been decided? Kick Argentina out of the World Cup and give everyone else a fair chance."
并列出了“阿根廷对阵埃及的比赛显然作弊了”“阿根廷在对阵安排上‘顺风顺水’显然不是巧合”“裁判明显偏袒阿根廷队和梅西”等要将阿根廷队驱逐出世界杯的原因。
不过，该网站能否通过后台刷票尚不可知，因此真实参与人数存疑。此网站类似上赛季末网友自制的“姆巴佩OUT”请愿网站，该网站当时收获超四千万的请愿数。
据此前报道，北京时间7月8日，在0:2落后的绝境中，在梅西上半场罚丢点球的情况下，卫冕冠军阿根廷队在比赛最后阶段的13分钟内连入三球，神奇逆转埃及队，晋级美加墨世界杯八强。
A week ago, the defending champions pulled off a dramatic comeback against Egypt to advance to the quarter-finals, scoring three goals in the final 13 minutes after trailing 2-0 and seeing Messi miss a first-half penalty.
阿根廷队沉浸在胜利喜悦中的同时，埃及方面则强烈谴责这一判罚结果，认为比赛存在明显不公。埃及认为，他们此前的一粒进球经VAR回看后因早前犯规被吹无效，而阿根廷最后的制胜球疑似侵犯穆罕默德·萨拉赫，却未经过VAR复核便被判有效。埃及方面表示，裁判应启动VAR审查，取消阿根廷的进球，并判给埃及点球。
While Argentina celebrated, Egypt condemned the result as grossly unfair.
The North Africans pointed out that a goal they scored was disallowed after a VAR review for an earlier foul, whereas Argentina's late winner was allowed to stand despite an alleged foul on Mohamed Salah. Egypt argued that there should have been a VAR review to look at disallowing the goal and awarding Egypt a penalty instead.
埃及队主帅胡萨姆·哈桑怒不可遏：“我会说出我的想法，不管后果如何。这显然是一场被操纵的比赛，全世界都看到了。还有，我想再说一件事：如果他们那么希望阿根廷获胜，为什么还要召集我们这些球队来参赛？”
Egypt's manager Hossam Hassan furiously said afterwards: "I'll say what I think, regardless of the consequences. This has clearly been rigged, and everyone has seen it. If they want them to win so badly, why are they inviting everyone to participate in the World Cup?"
哈桑直言，国际足联就是想让梅西留在世界杯，“国际足联倡导公平竞赛，但我们没在场上看到。如果不是这些错误判罚，比赛结果就会不同。”
Hassan claimed that FIFA simply wanted to keep Messi in the tournament. "FIFA promotes 'Fair Play', but we didn't see it on the pitch … without those mistakes, the result would've been different," he added.
在1/4决赛赛前发布会上，阿根廷主帅斯卡洛尼回应了裁判偏袒问题。
斯卡洛尼表示：“有了VAR和各种系统，想要获得优待是很难的，非常困难。有了VAR，其实没有太多模棱两可的空间，他们向我们解释得非常清楚。”
Speaking at a press conference ahead of the quarter-finals, Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni dismissed the allegations, stating that showing favouritism in the VAR era was next to impossible.
Scaloni said: "With VAR and all the technology we have today, it's extremely difficult to help anyone. There is no room for different interpretations."
阿根廷国家男子足球队主教练斯卡洛尼
同时，他认为社交媒体会放大一切，争议也由此产生。“但绝不存在任何偏袒。恰恰相反，如今想要偏袒任何一方都是非常困难的，真的很难。我不知道，也许很多年前这种事是可能的，我不清楚，但在今天，这简直难如登天。”
He added that social media amplified everything, fuelling controversy. "But there is no favouritism. On the contrary, it's very difficult to help anyone nowadays. I don't know, maybe many years ago this kind of thing was possible, I'm not sure, but today, it's next to impossible," he said.
来源：南华早报 观察者网综合自体坛周报、都市现场
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