4-2 win over Croatia<\/a>, with a wall of photographers blocking his view to the pitch.<\/p>\nFifa has now changed its policy and agreeing to a compromise for all affected games. <\/p>\n
Photographers will now be grouped in a huddle closer to the halfway line – allowing an unobstructed view for the coaching staff.<\/p>\n
The Group L game in Dallas was Tuchel’s first as a World Cup manager but he revealed the occasion, particularly the emotion of the national anthems, was spoiled.<\/p>\n
“I have to tell you something. I’m begging Fifa to change the position of the photographers in the national anthem, because I could not see my team,” Tuchel said.<\/p>\n
“It was a very special moment, and I was standing in front of a wall of 50 photographers and I could not see one single player. It ruined a little bit my experience.”<\/p>\n
The AT&T Stadium usually serves as the home of the Dallas Cowboys, with the NFL field too small for World Cup matches.<\/p>\n
The surface had to be raised 1.2m to be able to fit in a football pitch, which meant part of the sidelines were lost – resulting in limited space for the coaches and the photographers during the national anthems.<\/p>\n
Fifa first deployed the new approach during Thursday’s Group A fixture between Czech Republic and South Africa<\/a> in Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England head coach Thomas Tuchel has won a battle with Fifa to get photographers moved away from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-745217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}