Confederations Cup update (as if you guys gave a crap
): today Chile beat an incredibly petty (as in defensive as fuck) Cameroon 2-0. Right before halftime, Eduardo Vargas scored and everything was neat-o, but after the referee had an interminable chat via his headset with some undisclosed officers, the goal was annulled because it was determined the striker was offside. Talk about a millimetric electronic decision: apparently HALF OF VARGAS' SHOE was offside when the ball was passed to him by Arturo Vidal.
Chile didn't play the fútbol it's been known for since Marcelo Bielsa revolutionized the country's style, partly because, as I said, Cameroon parked the bus (aka the bat-tactic: 10 players hanging from the crossbar behind the keeper), but also due to a strange level of indecision by cats who can certainly perform much better. It sure as shit didn't help matters that La Roja didn't count with Alexis until the 58th minute (ankle injury); it was Mr. A.S. himself who centered it for King Arthur to head in the 1-0 eight minutes before injury time.
Vargas ended up having the craziest game: a little before the curtain was about to fall, he scored again, but the linesman, who clearly wasn't wholly familiar with this shit's rules, gave the ref the signal to annul the goal. Enter, again, the obscure agents monitoring the match remotely — this time they called it in favor of Vargas. Chile now leads group B, but it remains to be seen what Germany's going to "do" with Australia tomorrow.