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Article contains social media posts with footage of the brawl.

Leandro Paredes lost his head after the final whistle of Argentina’s World Cup final loss to Spain, earning a straight red card after violently punching Spain’s Eric Garcia in the throat.

Spain claimed its second World Cup title, defeating Lionel Messi and Argentina 1-0 after extra time at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

After the final whistle sounded, Paredes rushed toward Garcia and violently put his open hand straight to his throat, knocking him to the ground.

The action took place right in front of assistant referee Tomaž Klančnik, as well as Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni.

Paredes set off a large brawl between the two teams, and he would also shove Spain midfielder Gavi down to the turf.

Paredes was shown a red card after the brawl. He was the second Argentina player to be red carded after Enzo Fernandez was sent off for a second yellow card near the end of regulation.

FIFA’s disciplinary committee will almost certainly look at the incident, with Paredes likely to face a suspension longer than the automatic one-match ban for a red card.

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[–] silver@das-eck.haus 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ARG making it so easy to dislike them smh

[–] finwe26@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The entire country? Edit: wow nice xenophobia, downvoting without a discussion. Really mature

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Sharing this article because it’s more concise and clearer as to what happened. There’s also links to see what happened in the article.

[–] Eril@feddit.org 19 points 1 week ago

I already saw it coming during the game. I was thinking that Spain just needs to provoke him a little 2-3 times and he will flip out and be sent off.

[–] Rion@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Now they get to return to their impoverished shithole country that’s run by a total nut job. That sounds like a decent punishment to me.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago

Wait... that's not where they were playing the final? Hard to keep track of impoverished shit holes since 2025.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

run by a total nut job

Accurate, fuck Marco Rubio.

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Why is fuck is scaloni stopping Garcia instead stopping Paredes from doing more shit?

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago

ah Argentina starting fights they can't win name a more icon duo.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Something something start a fight... Something something get wreckt...

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

At least this is consistent with the behaviour of Argentine sports fans. They have normalised violence to an incredible degree across all sports.