For the first time he showed the white card in a match

The world of football is still tied to changes, having the Women’s Football as one of the drivers for these to happen. Thus, in the duel between the benfica and the sporting lisbonto, corresponding to the women’s portuguese cup For the first time in the history of football, the presence of the white card in the power of the referee. Unlike the yellow and red cards, the white card is not intended to impose a punishment, but quite the opposite.

Why was it exhibited and who is the beneficiary?

The white card through the National Ethics in Sport Plan, it intends to improve the ethical value of sport by recognizing the good behavior of the protagonists during the match. In other words, whether a player or a member of the coaching staff has an attitude of camaraderie, or of “Fair play” with the rival, this will be recognized with the white card. In this way, the white card imposes an important turn in the history of football since the arrival of the yellow and red cards to impose a punishment since the 1970 World Cup.

With this new implementation, through the Portuguese Institute of Sports and Youth, in Portugal, the rest of the world wanted to promote this initiative, seeking to encourage athletes, coaches, managers, the public and other sports agents to act in a “ethically correct”as well as to recognize, highlight and reward ethically relevant attitudes and behaviors in sport.

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The first appearance of the white card occurred then in the Light Stadium in the presence of 15,032 spectators, surpassing 14,221 in May 2022, which in turn set a record number of attendance on the train on Women’s Football in Portugal, in the confrontation between Benfica and Sporting Lisbon. Through the match judge, ladybug whitethe white card had its history and first appearance in a match after the medical staff of both teams came together to treat a fan who had fainted in the stands.

As a result, they did, the white card was presented to give rise to the initiative of the Portuguese country to give a positive message and recognize the “fair play” of the protagonists. To support the presence of the white card, the audience gave a standing ovation followed by a nervous smile from the medical staff in question.

This new rule of the white card, for the moment used only in Portugal, transcends other sports besides football. The entity in charge of promoting the use of the white card assured that its use will also be presented in rugby, basketball, volleyball, tennis, table tennis, golf, and athletics matches, among others.

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What will be a real challenge for the Portuguese federation in this case is that the fifa imposes the use of the white card in other skills. Although the maximum entity of international soccer turned out to be the use of the white card in soccer, it is still not an obligation and which is unlikely in other leagues in the short term.

It will not be the first time that the white card appears on the scene since in 2014 Michelle Platini, president of the Uefa At that time, it sought to promote the use of this card but with another totally different intention to the real The French leader promoted the implementation of the white card to expel temporarily (10 minutes), as happened in rugby in the case of seeing the yellow card, during football matches for an infraction to help reduce the use of yellow cards.

“The white card would reduce the tension caused by the use of yellow and red cards during matches”had stated at the time during the opening of the ninth edition of the Dubai International Sports Conference.

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