😳 Only amateur refs in Brazil? Neymar lashes out at officials | OneFootball

Neymar has to take a break from playing for FC Santos due to a thigh injury, and was therefore only able to watch yesterday’s match against table neighbors EC Vitória from the stands.

However, this didn’t stop him from letting off some serious steam after his club’s defeat, and he especially targeted one person on his social media channel on ‘X’.

“Referees in Brazil urgently need to become more professional!” wrote the number 10 on ‘X’.

What was he referring to? Neymar published the post just moments after referee Rafael Rodrigo Klein awarded a penalty to Vitória. Matheuzinho converted the penalty to make it 1-0 for the visitors.

What probably made the 33-year-old especially angry in this situation: At the start of the match, Klein had initially awarded a penalty to Santos, but after checking with VAR, he reversed his decision.

The officials at Santos are probably just as unhappy about his angry referee post as they are about yesterday’s defeat.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

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