{"id":1334,"date":"2026-08-16T09:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:46:23","slug":"they-changed-the-rules-because-of-me-spain-star-marc-cucurella-reflects-on-controversial-handball-against-germany-that-was-talked-about-all-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They changed the rules because of me!&#8217; &#8211; Spain star Marc Cucurella reflects on controversial handball against Germany that was &#8216;talked about all over the world&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>Looking back on the incident, Cucurella told <em>AS<\/em>: \u201cYes, that handball has been talked about all over the world. In fact, UEFA recently came to give us a talk and used my handball against Germany as an example. And they told me it was because of me that they had to change the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also made it clear he never intended to handle the ball: \u201cNo, really not! They took a shot at me from close range and the ball hit me, but I didn&#8217;t mean to hit it with my hand, I didn&#8217;t do it on purpose. Man, I would have been the most hated guy in Spain&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/changed-rules-spain-marc-cucurella-reflects-controversial-handball-germany-talked-about-all-over-the-world\/blt4ead562fe42fc3fe\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on the incident, Cucurella told AS: \u201cYes, that handball has been talked about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}