Football is living through a global case study on whether fairer actually makes for better in the world of professional sport<\/p>\n
The number on the sign displayed prominently by the entrance of the football universe had been wiped away. IT HAS NOW BEEN \u2026 0<\/strong><\/em>\u2026 DAYS SINCE THE LAST VAR CONTROVERSY.<\/p>\n The second leg of a scintillating Madrid derby<\/a> in the Champions League round of 16 went to penalties on Wednesday, sending Real through over Atl\u00e9tico. Antonio R\u00fcdiger hit the winning spot kick, but the shootout truly turned on an especially eagle-eyed call by the video assistant referee.<\/p>\n Leander Schaerlaeckens is at work on a book about the United States men\u2019s national soccer team, out in 2026. He teaches at Marist University.<\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Football is living through a global case study on whether fairer actually makes for better in the world of professional sport The number on the sign displayed prominently by the entrance of the football universe had been wiped away. IT HAS NOW BEEN \u2026 0\u2026 DAYS SINCE THE LAST VAR CONTROVERSY. The second leg of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}