Each World Cup in football serves up delicacies and glorious moments, but on the other hand, also with incidents, the number of which seems to only increase over the years, both in terms of quantity and 'quality'. Or not. Once upon a time, there were not so many cameras, so many lenses, and many things could remain hidden. But not the following ten moves that have put their main players on the blacklist of footballers.
Although many of them are true bizarre, but there is no fear that the very top will suddenly be crowded like in BTC at four in the afternoon. How high are listed and whether they reach the controversy of Maradona 'hands of god' (1986) and Zidanov 'front' (2006) only time will tell, but today we can almost say that at least it will Suarez's bite joined this 'chosen' company.
Football fields give birth heroes and fools and let's bite into a gallery of ten from this World Cup that realized just how short the journey from one to the other can be.
One bite was enough for Suarez to sign off on one of the most 'iconic' moments in World Cup history. After sinking his teeth into Giorgio Chiellini's shoulder, he broke the teeth of his national team, because he was their strongest weapon.
The accomplice of Neymar's injury and Zúñiga's 'partner in crime' is Spanish referee Velasco Carballo, as he allowed too rough a game and punished only four out of a total of 54 fouls (championship record) with a yellow card. This brought the match to the brink of degeneracy and almost ended Neymar's career.
Zúñiga's brutal foul on Neymar put a huge black mark on the Colombian's career and rightfully ranked him as one of the biggest underdogs of this championship. On top of that, he earned the status of enemy number 1 in Brazil.
It is no surprise that the enfant terrible of football, Mario Balotelli, who probably wrote his swan song in the Italian national team during the match with Uruguay, also found himself on this black list. His flight and 'headbutting' Alvaro Pereira only earned him a yellow card, but the coach left him on the bench after half-time, as it was a miracle if Italy would finish the match with 11 men.
We are probably all at least a little fed up with Robben's ballet shoes or pathetic simulations. This was also made clear to him by the crowd at the match against Costa Rica, who booed him every time he touched the ball. Although many fouls were whistled against him justifiably, with his reputation as a simulator, he accumulated these unjustified convictions and will have to suffer many more 'real' fouls to regain the trust of the viewers. But only until the next whining, when Sisyphus' path to the sincerity of the fall will begin again. pain. An exemplary example was the match against Mexico, where he won a justly awarded 11-meter penalty, but at the same time admitted that he committed a few fouls, one right in the penalty area.
Another one of those footballers, to whom AGRFT students could come for a lesson in acting, is Pepe, who already in his first match at the World Cup with Germany 'justified the reputation of a player without manners. The 'frontman' was far from the iconic one from Zidane, but such moves, even if only indicated, are unacceptable in football and if Müller and Müller had switched roles then, Pepe would probably be lying on the ground from 'pain' even today.
The referee does not decide on a direct red card so easily, but Song's unreasonable outburst in the match against Croatia left him no choice. The Cameroonian is not known as a short-tempered man, but growing up with 17 sisters and 10 brothers could perhaps be the right background to find the cause of the outage.
There is a very fine line between hero and anti-hero and Krul was walking on very thin ice with his psychological stampede of 'bullying' the Costa Rican players before taking the penalty. Of course, he was the hero in the end with two saved shots, but many called his move unsportsmanlike and at this point it makes sense to ask whether the end justifies the means.
Palacios apparently forgot that only the grass is mowed, not the players, as he made a nasty mess of the ground under Paul Pogba's feet and then stomped on him, before falling to his feet with a slight touch from the Frenchman. But the referee overlooked his theatrical contribution and rightly showed him a yellow card. From here on, Palacios saw only red. Literally and figuratively. After the second foul in the series, the referee had no choice but to show him another yellow and thus red and send him to the locker room.
Despite the victory, Giovani dos Santos will long dream of this linesman, who robbed him of not one, but two regular goals! Clavijo had to pack his bags soon after the match, but what if dos Santos' statistics will remain blank forever after all.
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