2023-07-30 10:15:16
Injustice in soccer is part of this sport that moves the masses. Despite the fact that each team, from time to time, has to suffer from questionable refereeing decisions, such suffering only causes them to arouse even more passion and inflate their chests when they recover from such situations.
If we talk regarding passion, Argentina might take the jackpot and, victim or not of the debatable level of South American football, the surreal controversies are lived every day on the other side of the mountain range, although none like that of Carlos Alberto de Marta.
The most ridiculous expulsion in football history
On November 8, 1972, Argentine soccer experienced one of the most unusual situations of its existence.
Deaf-mute from birth, Carlos de Marta managed to consolidate a football career that began in Estudiantes de la Plata, overcoming all the prejudices of the time and becoming a member of important First Division clubs, always competing at a high level. A ‘5’ in the trans-Andean style, with a strong leg, marking and sense of placement, according to infobaefollowing talking with those who saw him play.
However, and without wanting it, its highest point at the media level occurred in the meeting that the ‘pincharrata’ cast played once morest Huracán at the Tomás Adolfo Ducó Stadium, valid for Zone B of the National Championship of that year. An injustice with all its letters. A story detailed by the media itself and backed by the memory of the student club.
Carlos de Marta
When the ‘Globo’ prevailed 2-0, the referee Washington Mateo He whistled a penalty in favor of the visiting squad, although seconds later, he undid his decision following consulting with one of his assistants, radically changing his charge, giving him a free kick in favor of the local squad.
The referee’s determination caused the unease and discomfort of the Estudiantes players who, without thinking twice, surrounded Mateo to angrily claim him. In that confusing ‘tole tole’, it was De Marta who had to pay for the anger of her companions following seeing the red cardboard -without understanding too much what was happening-leaving his team with ten men and triggering a crushing 5-1 defeat.
The controversy would not end on the field, since following the La Plata team read the arbitration report, the anger was enormous. And it is that, in the judge’s report, it is explained that the expulsion of the midfielder was the product of an insult and that he would receive a harsh sanction of several punishment dates. The directive might not believe it and, of course, they appealed.
days following, De Marta attended the Disciplinary Court and there the surprise of the AFA judges had no parameters. The defense was clear; The steering wheel is deaf from birth and he mightn’t have inferred any insult because he mightn’t utter any words. The regulatory body backed down, but keeping the red card and a penalty game, as if the solid and brief arguments of Estudiantes de la Plata had not been enough.
“Once the duel ended, the referee sent the report to the Argentine Football Association and, in it, he had detailed that the player Carlos Alberto De Marta had been expelled for insulting him and, therefore, he was subject to a serious sanction. When the pincharrata midfielder went to the mother house of Argentine soccer to “talk” regarding his red card, the authorities of the Disciplinary Court realized, in an “insightful” way, that it was impossible for him to have insulted the judge ”, recalled the club’s website.
When he ‘shouted’ a goal once morest Newell’s Old Boys
After his experience in the cast ‘pincharrata’, the midfielder ended up in temperleya club where he is pleasantly remembered for his history and performance on the field, leaving another curious anecdote for trans-Andean football.
And it is that, in the 1975 season of the First National, the light blue cast prevailed once morest Newell’s Old Boys (3-1), with De Marta being in charge of opening the scoring following 22 minutes. His celebration was indelible.
The footballer ran euphorically to one side of the field where the cameras of the Fútbol de Primera program (which compiled the best moments of Argentine matches) were located, grabbed the journalist’s microphone and, visibly moved, made a great effort to utter two words that were born from the soul: “Mom… Goal!”.
An image that according to the program team, they might never erase from their minds due to the strong emotional charge, but which, unfortunately, they might never endorse. There is only one photograph of the goal.
Goal by Carlos de Marta once morest Newell’s
History repeated itself twelve years later
As unusual as the expulsion of Carlos Alberto de Marta was in 72′, it was not the only one -of the same style- that occurred in the history of football.
In an even more media scenario such as the UEFA Cup (current Champions League) in 1984, the River from Croatia (formerly Yugoslavian) visited the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium to face Real Madrid, where football was stained once more with a deaf-mute as the protagonist.
A situation that does not help much to wash the image of the merengue team as one of the most ‘helped’ clubs in Europe, but the striker suffered raw Damir Desnicawho is deaf from birth and is currently 66 years old.
In the match where the Spaniards prevailed 3-1 once morest the Croats, the speedy left winger etched his name in the history books as the second player to be sent off for complaining… without being able to speak.
To be more specific, Desnica’s red card was a double yellow card and, given its high degree of controversy, there are two versions. The first indicates that the attacker was sent to the locker room by the Belgian Roger Schutters for “blatantly wasting time”, according to the Spanish journalist José Javier Santos in his book Abrazos y Zancadillas.
The other story maintains that the ’11’ was expelled for insulting the referee, according to the Spanish communicator Jose Maria Garcia, further fueling the feeling that Real Madrid is constantly benefiting from the referees who referee their matches. A version that was endorsed by the former player Nenad Gracanwho was in that duel, assuring (in his presentation with Real Oviedo in 1989) that the red “was for protesting.”
The controversial defeat of Rijeka, which meant the elimination of the team in the round of 32, remains in the memory of Croatian fans and even, in 2011, Desnica himself referred to his controversial expulsion in an interview with As Spainwith sign language and in handwriting.
“It was a scandalous robbery. They expelled me for protesting, but that’s impossible because I can’t speak… For protesting and wasting time. I was going to take the corner and the referee was rushing me. It was a scandal”argued the Scandinavian.
Along the same lines, he explained in detail what happened to him that night in 1984: “The first yellow seems to me that it was in the same interval in which I go for the ball to take the corner. I extended my arms because I did not understand anything. What I do remember is that they gave me two penalties and this man, Schoeters, did not whistle any. It was a complete robbery. Of course, then this referee did not whistle once more in his life, but he left us without the greatest illusion of our career “.
With 229 appearances and 45 goals for Rijeka, Desnica’s successful career was marred by this situation, which still brings back bad memories.
The expulsion of Damir Desnica
His role in politics, his legacy and his death
In South America, the story of Carlos de Marta is one of the greatest in terms of self-improvement. In addition to Estudiantes de la Plata and Temperley, the midfielder also had good steps through Belgrano de Córdoba and Huracán until his retirement at Cipolleti.
Once his boots were hung up, De Marta fully immersed himself in politics without leaving behind his passion for soccer. Worked at the Ministry of Health and he mixed his work in the Argentine public system with ‘pichangas’ in the pastures where the Estadio Único de La Plata is currently located.
In the trans-Andean top flight, the midfielder scored nine goals in his 189 appearances and left an enormous legacy for children with different abilities who dream of being soccer players. A player who might do everything, even shouting a goal with his soul.
He passed away on April 22, 2016 at the age of 65, leaving a great regret in the ‘pincharrata’ box and in the celestial cast, where he will be eternally missed as ‘Sordo’ De Marta.
“A winner who, despite his disability, never prevented him from developing in football and in life” (Memory of Students of La Plata).
Carlos de Marta in Temperley
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