The first white card in football: the Portuguese Cup match between women’s teams will go down in history
The first white card in football: the Portuguese Cup match between women’s teams will go down in history
On January 21, the match of the Portuguese Cup between the women’s teams of “Benfica” and “Sporting” took place, during which, for the first time in the history of the match, the referee Katarina Kampush used a white card. This is reported by B24 with a link to Twitter.
At the end of the first half, when “Benfica” won with a score of 3-0, someone on the bench felt sick. The doctors of both teams urgently went there to provide assistance. Katarina Kampush did not leave this concession unnoticed and showed the doctors of both teams a white card. The concession caused bewilderment among specialists.
However, the white card is part of a new initiative in Portugal. This card is shown to recognize and praise clubs for fair play, unlike red and yellow cards, which are used to warn and remove from the game, respectively. It is noted that the idea was created to strengthen ethical values in sports.
In the quarter-finals, “Benfica” won with a score of 5-0.
Yellow and red cards were introduced in 1970 at the World Cup in Mexico. But the white card was proposed to be introduced already in 2015 by the then president of UEFA, Michel Platini, but with a different meaning. He proposed that a white card means removing a football player from the field for only 10 minutes, but this idea was not implemented.
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