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FIFA World Cup Soccer History
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World Cup Disciplines Records
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Most red card in one match
(3) 1938 Brazil vs Czechoslovakia (Sent off:
Procopio, Machado and Riha)
(3) 1954 Brazil vs Hungary (Sent off:
N.Santos, Tozzi and Bozsik)
(3) 1998 Denmark vs South Africa (Sent off:
Molnar, Wieghorst and Phiri)
Most red cards in one tournament
(3) 1990 Argentina (Sent off:
Giusti, Monzon and Dezotti)
(3) 1998 France (Sent off:
Zidane, Blanc and Desailly)
(3) 1998 Cameroon (Sent off:
Kalla, Song and Etame)
The fastest
red card
Sergio Batista after just
56 seconds in their first round match against Scotland in 1986.
The fastest yellow card
Sergei Gorlukovic of Russia
within the first minute against Sweden in 1994.
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Total Red Cards Per Tournament |
| 1930 |
Uruguay |
1 |
| 1934 |
Italy |
1 |
| 1938 |
France |
4 |
| 1950 |
Brazil |
- |
| 1954 |
Switzerland |
3 |
| 1958 |
Sweden |
3 |
| 1962 |
Chile |
6 |
| 1966 |
England |
5 |
| 1970 |
Mexico |
- |
| 1974 |
West
Germany |
5 |
| 1978 |
Argentina |
3 |
| 1982 |
Spain |
5 |
| 1986 |
Mexico |
8 |
| 1990 |
Italy |
16 |
| 1994 |
United
States |
15 |
| 1998 |
France |
22 |
| 2002 |
Korea/Japan |
17 |
First player ever to be sent off
Peru's Mario de Las Casas
against Romania in 1930.
First goalkeeper ever to be sent off
Gianluca Pagliuca of Italy against
Norway in 1994.
First player to be sent off in a World Cup final
Pedro Monzon of Argentina
against West Germany in 1990. His teammate Gustavo Dezotti also received a red card later
in that match. Marcel Desailly of France is the only other player to have been sent off in a
final when he got expelled against Brazil in 1998.
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