😳 Green card used?! Manager makes football history at U20 World Cup | OneFootball

This has never happened before in football. At the U20 World Cup in Chile, a new green card was used yesterday. Unlike the yellow and red card, this new rectangle can only be used by coaches and not by referees. That's what happened yesterday.

In the match between Morocco and Spain (2:0), Morocco's coach Mohamed Ouahbi disagreed with a penalty whistle. He pulled out the green card, which triggered a video review by the VAR. Subsequently, the penalty was revoked. Mohamed Ouahbi had already made football history.

A green card has never been used in a FIFA tournament before. But why exactly now?

Last year, FIFA decided to launch a pilot project for the U20 World Cup. The green card is intended to give coaches - like in the NFL or NBA - the opportunity to have certain decisions reviewed retrospectively. Each coach can use the green card twice per game (Source: 'Marca').

At the World Cup, it can be used for penalty decisions, goals, dismissals and wrongly awarded cards - for example in case of a player mix-up. We are curious to see if we will see the new card in other competitions soon.

What do you say: A useful thing or not needed in football?

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