Bola.net – It’s not just Indonesian netizens who are furious with referee Ahmed Al-Kaf. Several netizens from other countries were also annoyed with Al-Kaf’s leadership in the Bahrain vs Indonesian National Team match, Thursday (10/10/2024).
The Indonesian national team visited Bahrain’s headquarters in the third round of the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers in the Asian Zone. The Garuda team fell behind due to Mohamed Marhoon’s beautiful free kick goal.
Luckily, the Indonesian National Team was able to equalize at the end of the first half through Ragnar Oratmangoen’s shot. Interestingly, this goal came from the only shot taken by the Garuda Squad in the first half.
Entering the second half, the Indonesian National Team played more impressively and successfully took the lead through Rafael Struick’s beautiful goal. Unfortunately, the victory in sight was shattered after Marhoon broke into Maarten Paes’ goal again at the end of the match.
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Ahmed Al-Kaf Controversy
Wasit asal Oman, Ahmed Al-Kaf (c) Doc. AFC
Since the start of the match, netizens on social media have complained about referee Ahmed Al-Kaf’s leadership. The referee from Oman was considered to have given many ‘soft’ violations to Bahrain.
The peak occurred in second half injury time. The fourth official awarded six minutes of injury time. However, Al-Kaf chose to continue the match until the 99th minute.
In fact, the referee is allowed to give more injury time than necessary. However, there must be conditions such as substitutions, injured players, etc.
In fact, in the six minutes of injury time there were almost no incidents that required Al-Kaf to extend injury time, even up to three minutes more.
Netizens from a number of other countries, from Malaysian pundits, Filipino players, to Iraqi postcasters also criticized Ahmed Al-Kaf. Below are their tweets in full.
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Sportcaster Malaysia, Aiman Roshizam
Welp, ref Ahmed al-Kaf is doing things as usual.
Indonesia was robbed and looted, that’s all I can say from this game.
— Aiman Roshizam (@aiman_sekaiichi) October 10, 2024
“Welp, Ahmed Al-Kaf acted as usual. Indonesia was robbed and plundered, that’s all I can say about this match,”
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Former Persib Filipino player, Daisuke Sato
seriously Indonesia was robbed by the refree… What a shame
— Daisuke Sato (@daisukesato11) October 10, 2024
“Seriously, Indonesia was robbed by the referee. Shameful,”
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Podcaster Iraq, Hassanane Balal
To my Indonesian brothers and sisters, I just wanted to say that us Iraqis understand your pain too well unfortunately. Trust me, we know that the refereeing in Asian football can be questionable at the best of times.
Just ask Aymen Hussein and Rebin Sulaka.
🇮🇶 🤝 🇮🇩 pic.twitter.com/PxtS8fLl8o
— Iraq Football Podcast (@IraqFootballPod) October 10, 2024
“To my Indonesian brothers, I just want to say that unfortunately we Iraqis fully understand your heartache. Believe me, we know that refereeing in Asian football can be questionable at the best of times. Ask Aymen Hussein and Rebin Sulaka,”
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Account 433
Quick maths 🤔🇮🇩 pic.twitter.com/KFvC9h0d9X
— 433 (@433) October 10, 2024
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