🚨 The "Prestianni rule" leads to a red card at the World Cup!

🚨 The "Prestianni rule" leads to a red card at the World Cup! It’s a first-ever! Tonight, Paraguay face Türkiye on Matchday 2 of Group D. The Paraguayans thought they had done the hard part by opening the scoring through Matias Galarza after just 64 seconds of play. But then, a major turning point came just before half-time. After a bad tackle and a tense moment between the two teams on the pitch, the match referee was called over to consult VAR. When looking at the screen, it became clear during the tense moment that Miguel Almiron was speaking to Mert Muldur while covering his mouth. Without hesitation, Mr Ivan Barton therefore showed a red card to the Paraguayan forward, thus applying the “Prestianni rule” for the first time. As a reminder, following the incident between Vinicius Jr and Gianluca Prestianni, in which the former accused the latter of making racist remarks while covering his mouth, FIFA introduced a new rule. It provides for any player who covers his mouth while speaking during a confrontation with an opponent to be punished with a red card, in order to prevent discriminatory or offensive behavior. As well as sadly becoming the first player punished under this new rule, Miguel Almiron leaves his teammates down to 10 men for the final 45 minutes of the match. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.