{"id":74798,"date":"2026-06-13T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/tim-ream-is-world-cups-first-player-to-benefit-from-var-mistaken-identity-check\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T00:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:00:28","slug":"tim-ream-is-world-cups-first-player-to-benefit-from-var-mistaken-identity-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/tim-ream-is-world-cups-first-player-to-benefit-from-var-mistaken-identity-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Ream is World Cup\u2019s first player to benefit from VAR \u2018mistaken identity\u2019 check"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>USMNT defender was issued yellow card to his chagrin<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Referee overturned decision, gave card to Almir\u00f3n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/12\/usa-paraguay-world-cup-2026-group-d-match-report\">Americans bulldoze past Paraguay in opener<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tim Ream made history on Friday in more ways than one. The second the opening whistle blew in the United States\u2019 match against Paraguay, the 38-year-old became the oldest player in the history of the US men\u2019s national team to appear at a World Cup. Fifty-three minutes later, Ream made an entirely different type of history: he became the first player at a World Cup to benefit from the International Football Association Board\u2019s \u201cmistaken identity\u201d rule change.<\/p>\n<p>The revision to the laws of the game, made earlier this year, gives referees latitude to use video assisted review to overturn red and yellow cards issued to the incorrect players. The most common application, seemingly, would be a red or yellow card issued during a mass confrontation, where a referee\u2019s view would be obscured. Dutch referee Danny Makkelie\u2019s interpretation on Friday night was different, but correct.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/12\/world-cup-var-mistaken-identity-tim-ream-usmnt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USMNT defender was issued yellow card to his chagrin Referee overturned decision, gave card to Almir\u00f3n Report: Americans bulldoze past Paraguay in opener Tim Ream made history on Friday in more ways than one. The second the opening whistle blew in the United States\u2019 match against Paraguay, the 38-year-old became the oldest player in the &#8230; <a title=\"Tim Ream is World Cup\u2019s first player to benefit from VAR \u2018mistaken identity\u2019 check\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/tim-ream-is-world-cups-first-player-to-benefit-from-var-mistaken-identity-check\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tim Ream is World Cup\u2019s first player to benefit from VAR \u2018mistaken identity\u2019 check\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74798","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=74798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}