A smiling Carballo then explained to the Guardian and Observer’s chief football writer, Daniel Taylor, why he could not talk in detail about his performance, or the challenge from Juan Zúñiga that ended Neymar’s World Cup. “Unfortunately I cannot talk about it. I would like to but the rules do not allow it. We did a Fifa open day for the referees at the start of the tournament and we were all very open that day. I can talk to you about Manchester United or Chelsea or José Mourinho or anything else, but not this, thank you.”
