Listen to Story All India Football Federation (AIFF) President Kalyan Chaubey has confirmed that the body has lodged an official complaint to FIFA and AFC Heads regarding the massive refereeing error in India's FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Qatar on June 1 in Doha. Kalyan Chaubey in an official statement confirmed that AIFF has written to FIFA head of Qualifiers, AFC head of referees and AFC head of competition regarding Qatar's controversial equaliser against India, which ultimately led to a defeat for the Blue Tigers by 2-1. With Kuwait defeating Afghanistan 1-0 in the other match of India's Group A, the defeat meant the end of India's chances of going through to Round 3.
After Lallianzuala Chhangte gave India a celebratory lead in the 37th minute of the game, Qatar, the Asian Champions, walked into the tunnel trailing for the first time in this competition. However, the second half brought a cruel turn of fate for the Blue Tigers after Qatar's Yousef Aymen equalised for his side in the 73rd minute in the most unruly fashion. Leading up to Aymen's equaliser, the ball had initially ricocheted off India goalkeeper and skipper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and clearly travelled outside the line for a corner.
However, Al-Hashmi rolled the ball back from outside the line for Aymen to kick it into the India net. This is blatant cheating and freaking disgrace!!! WTF. Shame on Qatar and the referee #QATIND #IndianFootball ð®ð3ð pic.
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