Valuetainment - June 06, 2026


“FIFA RUINED The World Cup” - New Red Cards, VAR Powers & Rule Overhaul INFURIATES Fans


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The 2026 World Cup will introduce one of the biggest rule changes in years with FIFA and IFAB targeting time wasting, expanding VAR authority, and increasing punishments for players' misconduct. Do you think these changes are good or bad?

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00:00:00.000 World Cup games face hours-long delays over major safety concerns across U.S. stadiums.
00:00:06.720 And by the way, let me tell you about the new rules for World Cup.
00:00:08.900 I don't know how excited you are.
00:00:10.760 I know we're very excited, and the guys are going to be using the podcast room
00:00:14.300 to listen or watch the games on a daily basis.
00:00:16.600 I know Jake's already giving me the look.
00:00:18.220 This place is going to be the place.
00:00:19.660 No one's going to be at the 1200 building.
00:00:21.160 They're all going to be here.
00:00:22.380 I hope we've regulated accordingly.
00:00:24.560 But here's the new rules, and some don't like it.
00:00:27.100 Some people don't like it.
00:00:28.040 I don't know, for the people that are following this, the World Cup,
00:00:31.180 last World Cup, in my opinion, was the greatest finals game in my,
00:00:35.500 for me to watch it, it was phenomenal, where Mbappe gets a hat trick
00:00:40.220 and then Messi ends up winning the first one with a goal.
00:00:42.440 He's saving that one goal at 123rd minute.
00:00:45.040 So here's the new rules.
00:00:46.420 Here's the new rules that they're doing.
00:00:49.480 2026 World Cup will introduce one of the biggest rule overhauls in years
00:00:53.900 with FIFA and IFAB targeting time-wasting, expanding VAR authority,
00:00:58.700 and increasing punishments for players' misconduct.
00:01:01.760 Let's go through it.
00:01:02.400 VAR gets expanded powers.
00:01:04.680 VAR can now intervene on incorrectly awarded corner kicks,
00:01:08.980 attack and fouls committed before corners and free kicks that later lead to goals,
00:01:13.940 penalties, corners, or free kicks,
00:01:15.980 incorrect second yellow cards that result in red cards,
00:01:19.780 mistaken identity, disciplinary decisions.
00:01:23.060 So that's going to be crazy right there.
00:01:24.460 Now let's go to the next one.
00:01:25.920 Players can't cover their mouths during confrontation.
00:01:29.540 So if you're going to the referee or team and you're talking like this, red card.
00:01:34.340 They literally are saying this could be any player who covers their mouth with a hand, arm, or shirt during the confrontation can be shown a red card, Vinny.
00:01:42.340 And you know what red card is, Rob?
00:01:43.500 Can you pull out what a red card is in World Cup?
00:01:45.860 If I'm not mistaken, when you get a red card, not only are you kicked out, but you're suspended the next game.
00:01:50.040 Oh, yeah.
00:01:50.640 This is massive. 0.93
00:01:51.340 So the market is a red card reserve immediate ejection for the World Cup.
00:01:54.340 For covering your force and deployments.
00:01:56.400 And one less player remaining.
00:01:58.040 Additionally, the offender receives an automatic suspension for the following match.
00:02:01.440 So guess what?
00:02:02.300 No more dips.
00:02:03.020 So imagine you're a coach.
00:02:04.040 Now you're telling you guys, hey, don't even think about bringing your hands up.
00:02:07.360 If you're mad at the ref, you can't call him a not-just-stating effort.
00:02:11.280 With covered mouth.
00:02:12.700 Ten-second substitution.
00:02:14.000 Substituted players must leave the field within ten seconds using the nearest exit point.
00:02:18.020 if they delay their replacement, cannot enter until at least one minute later
00:02:23.160 and only after the next stoppage, temporarily leaving the team within 10 players.
00:02:27.480 Five-second countdown for restarts.
00:02:29.260 Referees can invite a visible five-second countdown for throw-ins and goal kicks
00:02:34.620 if they believe a player is deliberately wasting time.
00:02:37.060 This is actually good to make the game more exciting.
00:02:39.220 That's actually going to be good.
00:02:40.260 Injured outfield players must leave the pitch.
00:02:43.000 Players receiving medical treatment on the field must leave
00:02:45.920 for at least one minute before returning goalkeepers and serious injuries.
00:02:49.760 So this makes you not fake an injury because you've got to step out.
00:02:52.820 So that could be actually good.
00:02:53.760 No more goalkeepers, tactical timeouts.
00:02:56.200 Teams can no longer use goalkeeper injury stoppages
00:02:58.960 as unofficial coaching breaks where players gather at the bench for instructions.
00:03:03.520 Officials will keep players on the field, though no formal punishment
00:03:07.260 currently exists for violations, and walking off the field in protest
00:03:11.320 becomes a red card.
00:03:12.680 Player who leaves the field to protest refereeing decisions
00:03:15.140 will be sent off, oh, my God, hydration breaks in every half.
00:03:19.800 Each half will include a three-minute hydration break due to expected heat.
00:03:24.480 And I don't know if I like that one.
00:03:25.680 So, anyways, those are some of the rules that people are looking at.
00:03:28.200 And people, you know, they have some strong thoughts about it with this time.
00:03:31.980 Do you have any thoughts on these new rulings?
00:03:33.860 So, I don't like new rules on the edge of championships.
00:03:38.720 The NFL always spends all this time.
00:03:41.700 They go, the rules community has decided this.
00:03:43.620 The rules community has decided this.
00:03:45.140 For this year, starting in at the preseason, you know, we're going to be ruling things like this.
00:03:50.820 We're going to be ruling things like this.
00:03:52.440 Major League Baseball had the pitch clock in the minor leagues and the challenge in the minor leagues.
00:03:57.320 And he introduced the beginning of it.
00:03:58.740 It frustrates me.
00:04:00.660 Why wouldn't you be doing this in Champions League where all these players are on the European teams play?
00:04:07.680 Why wouldn't you do it in the North American and the Championships of the Americas?
00:04:15.460 Why wouldn't you test it?
00:04:16.660 Why do you wait to go there?
00:04:18.900 Now, something like, okay, when it's at the World Cup, remember, you can't cover your mouth and say things.
00:04:24.200 Okay, so now they say, hey, remember, don't yell at the referee and cover your mouth.
00:04:28.140 And so you're questioning whether his parents were married when he was born and things like that.
00:04:32.720 You know, you can't do that.
00:04:33.700 I don't mind that, but if you're going to make a lot of rule changes
00:04:39.580 that affect play and strategy, you know what?
00:04:43.140 That's just – I don't like that on the edge of a championship, Pat.
00:04:48.700 Yeah, I don't know.
00:04:49.660 I mean, listen, diehard soccer fans are not supporting this.
00:04:52.900 Diehard soccer fans are furious about this.
00:04:54.840 Vinny, your thoughts?
00:04:55.580 Pat, if it ain't broken, don't fix it.
00:04:58.040 Leave it alone.
00:04:58.800 What is this going to do?
00:04:59.700 What he's telling him off?
00:05:00.820 for how many decades
00:05:02.980 soccer's been just the way it is
00:05:05.380 it's totally fine the way that it is
00:05:06.920 I don't think adding any more rules
00:05:08.420 it's going to ruin it, it's going to really mess it up
00:05:11.040 it's going to delay it, and imagine how many people
00:05:13.340 are going to forget
00:05:14.620 within the first couple games they're going to do this
00:05:16.720 one guy's going to mess up and they're out for the next game
00:05:18.520 and then we're going to lose a player
00:05:19.660 imagine if it's a superstar, and this is a country
00:05:22.540 it happens every four years, it's not like it's NBA
00:05:24.540 you get one game suspension, come back up
00:05:26.860 so it's not like it's a seven game series
00:05:28.720 it's one game
00:05:30.220 yeah i'm rooting for the usa that's it i'm rooting for uh the efficiency exactly i'm rooting for
00:05:37.120 iranians to bring your sun and lion flag and if you don't have that get your hat from vt march
00:05:44.860 future looks bright and i'm more focused on right now in the nba finals and hoping and praying that
00:05:51.060 the new york mom donnies don't win yeah we'll see then by the way aside from that japan i don't know
00:05:56.320 if you guys saw what's going on with Japan, Japanese players showed up to Mexico and they're 0.55
00:06:01.640 not happy because they welcome terrible conditions in Mexico, Japan does, threatening to leave
00:06:08.120 the World Cup. Rob, I don't know if you have that story or not, if you want to go to it.
00:06:11.540 So they're like, what the hell is going on, Tom? You saw this story, right? You saw what
00:06:14.800 happened there. Japanese national football team is preparing to participate in the world's
00:06:18.560 biggest players. Namely, the Japanese team was supposed to prepare at the training center
00:06:23.860 of Tigris, but it was reportedly in such poor condition
00:06:28.220 that Japanese leadership threatened to withdraw from the World Cup,
00:06:30.940 which would certainly have been an unprecedented move.
00:06:33.420 However, the organizer reacted immediately, and thanks to that,
00:06:36.400 Monterey allowed the Japanese national team to use a state-of-the-art
00:06:39.020 training center, and the programs were overcome.
00:06:41.800 Japan is in Group F, along with Netherlands, Sweden, and Tunisia,
00:06:46.660 and will play two matches from the first phase of competition
00:06:50.000 in Arlington against Netherlands on June 14th and Sweden on June 25th
00:06:54.240 while facing Tunisia June 20th, Guadalupe, Mexico.
00:06:57.560 The World Cup is Japan's eighth consecutive participation in the tournament
00:07:00.960 and its greatest success so far has been ninth-place finishes
00:07:04.220 in World Cup in 2002, 2010, and 2022.
00:07:07.520 Tom?
00:07:08.080 Well, first of all, if you're going to be holding the World Cup
00:07:11.340 and you say, hey, you're going to be training here,
00:07:13.080 this is where it's going to be, it's got to be good.
00:07:15.060 And it seemed kind of weird that the turf is in such bad conditions because if you study Mexico, they're pretty good at growing grass.
00:07:25.860 Hello.
00:07:27.200 California.
00:07:28.140 What was that about?
00:07:30.260 But if you're going to be invited.
00:07:31.920 It's a little bit of racist dad jokes, but it was good.
00:07:34.580 So if you're inviting people.
00:07:36.700 Thank you, Connor.
00:07:37.600 If you're inviting people to your country, wouldn't you want to put them in some of the finest place?
00:07:43.960 Wouldn't you reach out? 0.99
00:07:44.960 Not Mexico, buddy. 0.87
00:07:46.360 Hey, this is what we're going to do. 1.00
00:07:47.940 Hey, Monterey, we would like to put them there
00:07:50.480 because you've got a great training facility.
00:07:52.640 You're done.
00:07:53.280 Some of your players are actually on the Mexican national team.
00:07:55.920 Let's do this.
00:07:56.800 Why wouldn't you do that?
00:07:58.020 Why would you send them over to something that isn't –
00:08:01.520 and this is a top-10 team.
00:08:03.200 There's 64 teams, right, and Japan can be said to be a top-10 team. 0.74
00:08:07.600 So it just seems ridiculous, Pat. 0.69
00:08:09.800 It just seems ridiculous that you would actually allow it to happen. 0.91
00:08:13.180 If you were running an organization, as you do,
00:08:17.860 and the best wasn't given to a guest to make somebody feel good,
00:08:20.920 wouldn't you say, where is unreasonable hospitality?
00:08:23.880 Especially if guys are coming in and treating them.
00:08:25.720 By the way, you know what's one of the biggest compliments we're getting right now?
00:08:29.560 It's how quickly merch is arriving because of where we are right now
00:08:32.420 with the new management team, new leadership team,
00:08:34.440 as well as the new 3PL that we have.
00:08:35.900 So for some of you guys that are going to be watching the games
00:08:37.900 and you want to celebrate your country, we have the USA hat there.
00:08:41.500 Future looks bright.
00:08:42.260 Rob, if you want to click on that so they can see what it looks like.
00:08:44.420 By the way, it looks so sick on the inside. 1.00
00:08:46.720 Somebody the other day bought 15 Iran hats, by the way. 0.98
00:08:50.460 And go back, Rob, to the previous ones, other countries.
00:08:53.140 We have Mexico.
00:08:54.200 We have U.S. shirts.
00:08:55.500 We have Mexico on the top right, Brazil, Argentina, and then I think that's Portugal. 0.97
00:09:00.920 And if you go all the way to the bottom, we didn't forget Iran. 0.55
00:09:04.240 See where you have Iran there, Rob?
00:09:06.220 Iran, Rob. 0.81
00:09:07.200 Iran, Iran.
00:09:08.120 I ran.
00:09:09.120 I ran.
00:09:09.660 There it is. 0.97
00:09:10.460 Iran hats. 0.93
00:09:11.100 Let's spell Khomeini real quick.
00:09:12.860 And the hats are there as well, which is simple. 0.93
00:09:14.580 Look at the inside of Iran. 0.88
00:09:16.020 I love the lion.
00:09:16.660 Go to it, Rob.
00:09:17.280 Go boom.
00:09:18.380 People who know.
00:09:19.140 With the lion in the sun, baby.
00:09:19.820 People who know.
00:09:20.640 With the lion in the sun, let's go.
00:09:21.960 No, you know.
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