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

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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00:09:23.300 Go to vtmerch.com, place your order.

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Valuetainment - June 06, 2026

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

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