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Has the revolution against FIFA begun?
Social media platforms were ablaze after the 2026 World Cup clash between Egypt and Argentina, but the focus was on businessman Naguib Sawiris, who was not content with anger but channeled it into scathing sarcasm aimed directly at refereeing and FIFA.
At the final whistle between the Pharaohs and Tango, which ended in favor of Lionel Messi’s team (3-2), there was a wave of anger as the performance of the French referee Francois Leticher sparked widespread controversy, after he ignored a number of strong conflicts that the players of the Arab national team saw as a clear struggle of the Arab community by the Egyptians. dancers.
Nagib Sawiris entered the lineup in his usual style. He reposted a video compiling Argentina’s most notorious violent interventions that went unpunished, and quipped:
Chanting “Viva Zapata” is not accidental. It is a Mexican revolutionary rallying cry meaning “Long live Zapata,” named after the revolutionary Emiliano Zapata who led the peasants in the 1910s and 1920s to demand justice and land distribution.
Sawiris borrowed this slogan here to indirectly say: What happened on the pitch calls for a revolution against refereeing injustice and FIFA’s laws.
He did not limit himself to that, because Sawiris accepted the statements of “Manchester United” legend Paul Scholes, who described the incident as an open theft. He wrote in defense. “You used the kindest description possible when you said: “We were robbed.”
Thus, Sawiris turned his displeasure into a sarcastic message to FIFA that football is not an arena for clowns and fans will not be silent when they feel the balance is tilted.
