Tsawon shekaru da yawa, ɗaya daga cikin ƙa'idojin Kofin Duniya na FIFA ya tsaya sama da tambaya: karɓi katin ja, rasa wasan gaba. Babu keɓantaccen hali, babu kararrawa, babu muhawara. An yanke wannan tabbacin yanzu.

Florian Balogun, ɗan wasan gaba na United States wanda aka kore a lokacin nasararsu a zagaye na 32 akan Bosnia-Herzegovina, zai kasance cikin 'yanci don fafatawa da Belgium a zagaye na 16 a Litinin — bayan FIFA ta dakatar da hani na atomatik na wasa ɗaya. Balogun yana jagorantar jerin masu zura kwallo na United States a wannan gasar da kwallaye uku.

A duk tarihin Kofin Duniya, an nuna katin ja 189. Ƴan wasa biyu ne kawai suka tsira daga dakatarwa — Balogun na biyu. Na farko shi ne Garrincha na Brazil a 1962, wanda aka kore shi a wasan da Chile a matakin kusa da kusa amma ya buga a ƙarshe akan Czechoslovakia. Muhimmin abu shi ne cewa wannan zamanin ba shi da hani na atomatik; hukumar tawaga ce ta yanke shawarar dakatar da wanda akwai zargin a talinsa na siyasa.

FIFA ba ta bayar da wata dalili ko bayanai

Ka'idar ladabtarwa ta FIFA kanta a fili take: wasan tashin hankali yana kai ga dakatar da su a kalla wasanni biyu. Bugu da ƙari, ƙa'idojin Kofin Duniya ba su baiwa ƙungiyoyi damar yin kara a kan katin ja. Duk da wannan, FIFA ta fitar da wata sanarwa da ta naɗe kawai "mataki na 27 na ka'idar ladabtarwa ta FIFA" — wani tanadi mai faɗi da ke ba hukuma ikon dakatar da kowane mataki na ladabtarwa gaba ɗaya ko wani ɓangare — ba tare da bayar da wani dalili kwata-kwata ba.

Mataki na 27 ban taɓa amfani da shi a Kofin Duniya ba kafin yanzu.

Sa'ad da BBC Sport ta nemi bayanai, an mayar da ita zuwa shari'ar Cristiano Ronaldo, wanda dakatarwarsa ta wasanni uku saboda buga Dara O'Shea da gwiwar hannu a lokacin da Portugal ta sha kashi a wasan takara da Republic of Ireland an rage ta — FIFA ta ambaci tarihinsa na ladabtarwa mai tsabta a cikin bayyanar ƙasa da ƙasa 225. Sai dai, wannan misali ya ƙunshi wasan takara, ba katin ja a gasar kanta ba. A shari'ar Balogun, ma a wannan iyakance dalili ya rasa.

Rahotanni da yawa sun ce Shugaban United States Donald Trump ya tuntuɓi shugaban FIFA Gianni Infantino wannan mako don neman sake duba haninsa. BBC ba ta tabbatar da waɗannan rahotanni ba, amma la'akari da dangantakar da aka rubuta sosai tsakanin White House da FIFA, tambayoyi game da tsoma bakin siyasa ba za a iya kaucewa ba.

Fushi na Belgium

Belgium na fushi ainun. Ƙungiyar ƙwallon ƙafa ta ƙasa ta fitar da wata sanarwa tana bayyana "mamaki" nata game da wannan yanke shawara, tana cewa yana cin karo kai tsaye da ƙa'idojin gasar da ke cewa ɗan wasa da aka kore "za a dakatar da shi kai tsaye daga wasan gaba na ƙungiyarsa." A zahiri, Belgium ta ce FIFA ta yi amfani da ka'idar ladabtarwa don wuce ƙa'idojinta na gasa.

Babban koci Rudi Garcia bai ɗaure baki ba. "Ban san cewa a Kofin Duniya na FIFA, ranar 5 Yuli yanzu ita ce ranar 1 Afirilu ba," in ji shi a taron manema labarai. "Ba mu kare ƙungiyar ƙasa ko tarayyar ƙwallon ƙafa ba, muna kare ƙwallon ƙafa."

Gary Neville, yana magana a ITV, ya yi tsanani daidai: "Yana da wari ainun. Idan babu tsari kuma FIFA daga ba inda ta yanke shawara ta bari ɗan wasa ya buga, da zan zama cikin tsananin fushi da na kasance Belgium. Shin muna mamaki? A'a."

Wani misali da zai iya sauya ƙwallon ƙafa

Sakamakon yana wuce wannan gasar. Katin jan Balogun ya yi tsanani — ya ba da kafa da haɗari a kafarwar mabiyinsa — amma tsananin kansa ba ya kasancewa dalili isasshe don soke dakatarwa a kowane lokaci da ya gabata. An cire niyyar daga ƙa'idojin wasa shekaru da yawa da suka wuce; sakamakon ƙalubalantar ne kawai yakamata a yi la'akari da su.

Ku yi la'akari da katin ja na Xavi Simons na Tottenham Hotspur akan Liverpool a watan Disamba da ya gabata. Simons bai yi niyyar tsayawa a ƙafarwar Virgil van Dijk ba, amma aikin ya sa haɗari ga abokin hamayya kuma dakatarwar wasanni uku ta ci gaba. Tottenham sun zaɓi su kaurace wa yin kara, suna gaskata cewa ba su da wata nasara.

Kociyen ko'ina a duniya yanzu za su tambaya ko za a iya neman irin wannan tausayi. Football Association a Ingila tana buga cikakken dalilai da aka rubuta na yanke shawara na ladabtarwa; FIFA ba ta bayar da komai a nan. United States suna da haƙƙin neman FIFA ta buga dalilanta — Belgium ba su da wannan haƙƙin.

A halin yanzu, Assim Madibo na Qatar ya karɓi dakatarwa na wasanni biyar — uku fiye da hukumar al'ada — ga lamarin da da yawa ke cewa ba ya taɓa taba kowa, wanda ya haifar da karya ƙashi na Ismael Kone na Canada. Bambancin ya zama kaifi.

Ta hanyar dakatar da haninsa na Balogun ba tare da bayanai ba, FIFA ba ta ƙirƙiro wani abin ban mamaki kawai ba — ta buɗe ƙofa wanda zai iya zama mai wuya ƙwarai don a kulle shi.