White card introduce during Sporting CP vs Benfica

A women’s cup clash between Sporting CP vs Benfica stays the only game in football history to feature a white card.

Back in January, during the semi-final first leg of the Taça da Liga Feminina in Lisbon, referee Catarina Campos made a mark on the world when she displayed the very first white card.

In the 44th minute, with Benfica driving 3-0 against their cross-city rivals, a woman in the team had complained of feeling unwell in the stands.
Medical staff from the two teams moved rapidly to assist and, in the wake of seeing their gallant activities, Campos went after her top pocket.

In acknowledgment of their sportsmanship, the authority granted a white card to those included and was cheered and commended by the 15,000 fans in participation at the Estadio da Luz.

White card during Sporting CP vs Benfica

This, thusly, will attempt to work on moral worth in the game.

Its utilization is a drive of Portugal’s National Plan for Ethics in Game (PNED) to impact practice sport with fair play, and the activities have been encourage by the Portuguese Football League (FPF) in their turnaments.

There are no advantages or bad marks of getting a white card.

As of now, the white card remain confined to Portugal for all intents and purposes yet to be endorsed by the Worldwide Football Association Board (IFAB).

Regarding the matter of history-production cards, the green card was utilized without precedent for 2018 during the CONIFA World Football Cup, which is a competition for non-FIFA affiliation international terms.

During the match, the referee stopped the match and showed a player the green card and ordered him to leave the pitch.

As per CONIFA guidelines, a player who gets a green card should depart the field of play right away, however can be replace if his team have note use all of their substitutes.

A player getting a green card is not excluded from his team’s next match.

The competition’s coordinator, Paul Watson addressed Sky Sports about the utilization of the green card. He said: “We’d truly prefer to cinch down on the contradiction issue. Football has a problem with the lack of respect for referees.

“Saying this doesn’t imply that that isn’t additionally the situation in CONIFA games – the players in our competition actually have those qualities.”