Guinness World Record broken as 53 red cards shown in Brazil under-20 match

Mass brawl astatine Uberlandia vs Mamore results successful 43 cards for players, 8 for coaching unit and 2 for committee members.

An under-20 shot lucifer successful the Brazilian authorities of Minas Gerais has descended into chaos arsenic the referee hands retired a grounds 53 reddish cards aft an tremendous brawl.

The brawl took spot during the archetypal limb of a authorities title semifinal lucifer betwixt Uberlandia and Mamore connected Sunday.

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In his study of the match, referee Fernando Patrick Drosghic Modesto said the occupation began aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional erstwhile a fig of Uberlandia officials invaded the tract of play aft 1 of their players was sent off.

The lucifer was halted for 40 minutes and yet restarted with Mamore going connected to people successful the ninth infinitesimal of stoppage clip to instrumentality a 3-1 lead.

According to reports successful Brazilian media, Mamore subordinate Davi taunted Uberlandia players during the extremity celebrations, which sparked the brawl that led to the deluge of reddish cards.

A full of 43 players and 8 members of the coaching unit were sent disconnected portion 2 Uberlandia committee members were besides dismissed.

“In the 54th infinitesimal of the 2nd half, a generalised brawl broke out, making it intolerable to amusement the reddish cards and to transportation retired the match-closing protocol,” Drosghic Modesto wrote successful his report.

“Therefore, owing to each the turmoil and the deficiency of security, I declared the lucifer ended.”

Drosghic Modesto added that a constabulary study was filed implicit threats made against the referee and Mamore’s squad vandalised the dressing country aft the match.

The erstwhile Guinness World Record for the astir reddish cards shown successful a lucifer was 36, which occurred successful February 2011 during a fifth-division lucifer successful Argentina betwixt Atletico Claypole and Victoriano Arenas.

On Wednesday, Uberlandia said it would beryllium forfeiting the 2nd limb of the semifinal successful a “gesture of just play” due to the fact that Mamore did not person capable eligible players to tract a team.

The forfeit saw Mamore suffice for the last of the tournament.

“The nine has besides not remained silent: The due disciplinary measures regarding those progressive person already been taken internally due to the fact that diversion improvement is, supra all, a substance of idiosyncratic development,” Uberlandia added.