In football, as in other sports, violations of the rules are very common. For this, players can receive a yellow or red card. What does the red card mean?
During a football match, the head referee plays a huge role. He makes the final decisions about all violations of the rules, goals scoring, substitutions, and so on. Cards are one of the main tools of the referee's influence on the game of teams. They come in yellow and red.
What can you get a yellow card for?
For its color, this card is also called "mustard plaster". It is presented to football players for various violations of the rules, for example, for a rough tackle from behind, for throwing the ball after the whistle, for a simulation, for a long delay, for disrupting a dangerous counterattack, and so on. In this case, the referee is guided by the fact that the player has violated a certain rule of football and should be punished, but not very severely. For a more malicious violation, the referee has the right to show a red card.
What can you get a red card for?
The referee can show the cards not only to the players on the field, but also to the substitutes, as well as to the entire coaching staff and others on the bench.
A red card is shown if the player has already been shown a yellow card warning before. It is the second mustard plaster that immediately turns into a red card.
You can also get a red card immediately for a very gross violation against a player, which is dangerous to his health or resulted in injury. In addition, it is shown to a football player for a last resort foul committed outside the penalty area when a player goes one-on-one with the goalkeeper. Until recently, a red card was also shown for a foul inside the penalty area, but now only a warning is due for this.
But even without gross tackles or dangerous violations, the referee may well present a red card to a football player. This happens if the player insulted or hit the referee, as well as in the event of a fight between players or too aggressive actions of one particular player. This rule applies to the entire coaching staff, together with the substitutes.
After receiving the red card, the player is automatically disqualified for the next team games in this tournament. He can miss from one to 4-5 matches depending on the severity of the foul and other criteria.
When cards first appeared in football
For the first time, football functionaries began to consider the use of additional measures during a football match at the 1966 World Cup in England. Then the referee could not explain to the Argentine player that he was removed from the field for a rough foul. After that, FIFA listened to the supporters of the appearance of cards in football and at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, they began to be used during games. By the way, the first footballer to receive a warning was the Soviet player Kakha Asatiani.
Now football cannot be imagined without yellow and red cards. On average, 5-6 yellow and 0.4 red cards are shown per game. All the judges have learned to use them correctly, and the players try to get them as little as possible.
