Martin Antonenko
A Fixture
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The first sending-off with a red card ...!
It's hard to imagine today:
Up until 1966, football games in all competition classes got by without two accessories, which are now a common sight:
One didn't know yellow and red cards!
Unfair players were verbally warned by the referee and, in the event of repetition - also verbally - sent off.
In the quarter-final game Argentina against England in the 1966 World Cup in Great Britain, however, things changed:
The atmosphere between teams and spectators was already extremely heated when the German referee Rudolf Kreitlein sended off the Argentine Captain Antonio Rattin for repeated foul play ...:
But the Argentine (No. 10) didn't even think about leaving, he pretended not to understand the dismissal - and continued playing for his team for a full nine minutes!
There was tumult in the stands and on the field - the game was about to be abandoned.
Schließlich holten die argentinischen Betreuer ihren Mann vom Platz - um Schlimmeres zu verhindern...:
England finally won 1:0 - and, as is well known, became world champions in the final against Germany!
Referee Kreitlein had to leave the field under massive police protection ...:
In order to avoid a repetition of such tumults, the British referee Ken Aston then suggested using yellow and red cards analogous to the internationally known traffic lights - as an unmistakable signal for players and spectators!
Aston is the inventor or "father" of the red and yellow cards!
The cards were used for the first time during the football World Cup in Mexico in 1970 - but had no consequences.
The Chilean Carlos Humberto Caszely Garrido went down in history on June 14, 1974 as the first player to be sent off with a red card during a World Cup - after he had committed a brutal revenge foul on the German defender Hans Hubert (Berti) Vogts during the match Germany vs. Cihle at Berlin (Germany won 1:0)...:
Germany won the world cup...
(Congrats to our English fans for the result against Croatia and good luck for the Scottish tomorrow against Cechia! And to the Welsh: Stay cool - nothing is lost yet!)
But my "Sbornaja"...
It's hard to imagine today:
Up until 1966, football games in all competition classes got by without two accessories, which are now a common sight:
One didn't know yellow and red cards!
Unfair players were verbally warned by the referee and, in the event of repetition - also verbally - sent off.
In the quarter-final game Argentina against England in the 1966 World Cup in Great Britain, however, things changed:
The atmosphere between teams and spectators was already extremely heated when the German referee Rudolf Kreitlein sended off the Argentine Captain Antonio Rattin for repeated foul play ...:
But the Argentine (No. 10) didn't even think about leaving, he pretended not to understand the dismissal - and continued playing for his team for a full nine minutes!
There was tumult in the stands and on the field - the game was about to be abandoned.
Schließlich holten die argentinischen Betreuer ihren Mann vom Platz - um Schlimmeres zu verhindern...:
England finally won 1:0 - and, as is well known, became world champions in the final against Germany!
Referee Kreitlein had to leave the field under massive police protection ...:
In order to avoid a repetition of such tumults, the British referee Ken Aston then suggested using yellow and red cards analogous to the internationally known traffic lights - as an unmistakable signal for players and spectators!
Aston is the inventor or "father" of the red and yellow cards!
The cards were used for the first time during the football World Cup in Mexico in 1970 - but had no consequences.
The Chilean Carlos Humberto Caszely Garrido went down in history on June 14, 1974 as the first player to be sent off with a red card during a World Cup - after he had committed a brutal revenge foul on the German defender Hans Hubert (Berti) Vogts during the match Germany vs. Cihle at Berlin (Germany won 1:0)...:
Germany won the world cup...
(Congrats to our English fans for the result against Croatia and good luck for the Scottish tomorrow against Cechia! And to the Welsh: Stay cool - nothing is lost yet!)
But my "Sbornaja"...
