Don't think this has been posted yet. An important point I think the team really only had 15-20 mins to come up with a decision, in a situation no one had experienced before. Pus dealing with language barriers with the Qataris. So yes with relection they may have just asked Qatar to remove their player, but again was a messy situation and they had to make a decision on the fly & fast.
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2023/6/21/all-whites-vs-qatar-solidarity-and-some-overshadowed-football
But the thing about that is even if there was a better way to react (and, frankly, there may not have been) these guys had mere minutes to figure out their course. Did people expect them to have a perfect response ready to go? They didn’t have a PR team to advise them in the changing sheds. The Vinicius situation alluded to the same thing where it’s only when he finally snapped that the spotlight went on what he was suffering. The bottom line here is that it is the responsibility of the match officials to lay down the law, or at least give some impression of giving a damn, and it was only when that didn’t happen that the All Whites felt they had to do something themselves. Actually, it was because that didn’t happen.
https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/iran-carlos-queiroz-offers-south-korea-coach-obscene-171113565.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAFz83Rz-Kr2CQl6YoYG3cXCN3Wgbn4Uhm81aiXUcH1o0XNDv_AuLA6w6vAqPn_zHQPkoByNduJA39CMquyrPeBxbtcemOEsVjx8-CUqqm013JUbIyyidLvlwHYl_cPEyrYjsIIN0dx6znMQqMfNra9v8xPAyOnjXY60TEF8eH46&guccounter=2
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2023/6/21/all-whites-vs-qatar-solidarity-and-some-overshadowed-football
But the thing about that is even if there was a better way to react (and, frankly, there may not have been) these guys had mere minutes to figure out their course. Did people expect them to have a perfect response ready to go? They didn’t have a PR team to advise them in the changing sheds. The Vinicius situation alluded to the same thing where it’s only when he finally snapped that the spotlight went on what he was suffering. The bottom line here is that it is the responsibility of the match officials to lay down the law, or at least give some impression of giving a damn, and it was only when that didn’t happen that the All Whites felt they had to do something themselves. Actually, it was because that didn’t happen.
https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/iran-carlos-queiroz-offers-south-korea-coach-obscene-171113565.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAFz83Rz-Kr2CQl6YoYG3cXCN3Wgbn4Uhm81aiXUcH1o0XNDv_AuLA6w6vAqPn_zHQPkoByNduJA39CMquyrPeBxbtcemOEsVjx8-CUqqm013JUbIyyidLvlwHYl_cPEyrYjsIIN0dx6znMQqMfNra9v8xPAyOnjXY60TEF8eH46&guccounter=2