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Qatar 2022The referee who expelled 10 players in a match will whistle Switzerland
Appointed to lead Switzerland – Cameroon this Thursday, the Argentinian Facundo Tello is reputed to be the king of the red card. On November 6, he had no hesitation in sending off 10 (!) players during a chaotic match between Boca Juniors and Racing.
Swiss players, beware: the Argentinian referee Facundo Tello has the easy red card (here during an Argentinian championship match between River Plate and Boca Juniors, in March 2021).
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Knowing who will referee Switzerland always causes a little suspense. This is now lifted. While one could think that FIFA would appoint a woman – the Japanese Yoshimi Yamashita for example – to lead the entry into the running of the players of Murat Yakin, its arbitration committee chose Facundo Tello to whistle the highly anticipated Swiss – Cameroon. The 40-year-old Argentinian will be assisted by his compatriots Ezequiel Brailovsky and Gabriel Alfredo Chade. Said Martinez (Honduras) will be the fourth referee for the game.
Renowned for distributing boxes like others multiply breads, Mr. Tello is far from being an unknown. On November 6, during the Champions Trophy final between San Luis Racing Club and Boca Juniors (2-1 ap), he honored his reputation by expelling no less than 10 players in a match. chaotic which was to end in the most total confusion.
While the debates had long been disputed in a relatively good state of mind, the meeting had shifted into another dimension in the last moments of regulation time, with the first two red cards (90 + 5), addressed to Sebastían Villa (Boca) and Johan Carbonero (Racing Club). Following the expulsion of Varela (100th), the match then went into the irrational after the winning goal scored in the 118th by Carlos Alcaraz, the namesake of the tennis player, also 19 years old.
Celebrating his success in a slightly too ostentatious way by removing his jersey and provoking the Boca public that he had to chamber by kneeling in front of him, Alcaraz would provoke the anger of the opposing players and kick off a general fight. The opportunity, on the lawn of the Parque La Pedrera stadium transformed into a ring, for Mr. Tello to issue seven new red cards to as many belligerents, the last exhibited under the eyes of the former Marseille player Darío Benedetto (120 + 10).
Beaten in a Buenos Aires derby that had completely degenerated, Boca had to make up for it somewhere by winning at the level of red cards with a final score: 7-3!
Here are the players of Murat Yakin at least as informed as the Indomitable Lions. Don’t mess with Mr. Tello. Drawing faster than his shadow, this man, FIFA referee since 2019, is trigger-happy…