The United States opened their World Cup campaign with a victory, though not before a strange VAR incident involving a mistaken identity booking left fans baffled. According to BBC Sport, it was one of those rare moments where the video review system became the main story—a sequence so confusing it overshadowed an otherwise successful result for the Americans.

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