The main arbiter of the match Brazil - Costa Rica Bjorn Kuipers marked a historic achievement in world football.

At the 79th minute of the meeting the referee decided to appoint a penalty in the gates of Costa Rica after Giancarlo Gonzalez broke the rules on Neimar.

Here is a video of this episode. However, Kuipers decided to seek help from the VAR video replay system to make sure that his decision was correct. After seeing the episode again, the referee decided to cancel the penalty.

Thus, Kuipers became the first referee who canceled the penalty in the World Championships after watching the VAR. Nevertheless, Brazil still squeezed Costa Rica, winning a victory with a score of 2: 0.

Recall that 9 countries, including Ukraine, Australia, Finland, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, declared a diplomatic boycott of the World Championship in Russia. The reasons for this were the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine and Syria, the poisoning of Russian ex-intelligence agent Sergey Skripal in Britain, the starvation of Ukrainian political prisoners, including the director Oleg Sentsov, and the systematic violation of human rights in the Russian Federation.

Unlimited hunger strike Sentsov announced May 14, 2018. His main demand is the dismissal of more than 60 Ukrainian political prisoners who are behind bars in Russia. This requirement of the director was supported by the US State Department, the EU, the Canadian Parliament and.

2015 Russian court illegally sentenced Sentsov to 20 years in a strict-regime colony. The actions in support of the director took place all over the world, including in Russia.