The world's most popular and widely followed game/sport football or soccer (whatever you may prefer to term it) has been synonymous with yellow and red cards for centuries but football and green cards are indeed somewhat of a rarity........
In a first of it's kind enterprise/venture; match referee's/officials presiding over Italian Seria "B" (Italian Second Division League) matches have been urged/motivated to flash green cards whenever they come across an act of gentlemanly honesty/candour or sporting spirit that elevates the stature of the game and carries it to exalted and unprecedented heights of glory and stardom.......
Match Referee Marco Mainardi became the first official to flash a green card in the history of the game when he extricated the very same from his pocket and doffed the same in the direction of Vicenza striker Cristian Galano who showed exemplary honesty and sportsmanship when questioned........
Galano had made an attempt at the opposing team's citadel and the same narrowly missed the target as the attempt on goal had deflected off the foot of a defender and hence altered or then veered off from it's intended destination.......
The defender in question hotly and somewhat imperiously questioned the officiating match official's decision to award a corner to the visiting Vicenza team and wanted him to verify whether or not the ball had indeed touched his foot and then deflected out of bounds as deemed by the referee in the midst of the on field action.......
Though perturbed and confounded by the defender's temerity and gall; Mainardi thought it prudent to check with Galano and was more than pleasantly surprised when Galano more than candidly admitted that the ball had gone out of bounds on it's own and not taken a deflection from the defenders foot as deemed by Mr. Mainardi.......
Instantly recognising his all to rare candour and sportive spirit Mainardi digged deep into the pocket where he kept his red; yellow and green cards and held the green card aloft for more than a few seconds as a mark of respect for a player who had showed the rest of the sporting world how the game of football should be played every single time.........
I for one do ardently hope and pray that other footballing leagues inundating the footballing world will similarly follow suit and start flashing more green than red and yellow cards thereby putting all expressed doubts about the game getting all the more acrimonious and less than honest with the dawning of each day of the burgeoning footballing calendar......
In a first of it's kind enterprise/venture; match referee's/officials presiding over Italian Seria "B" (Italian Second Division League) matches have been urged/motivated to flash green cards whenever they come across an act of gentlemanly honesty/candour or sporting spirit that elevates the stature of the game and carries it to exalted and unprecedented heights of glory and stardom.......
Match Referee Marco Mainardi became the first official to flash a green card in the history of the game when he extricated the very same from his pocket and doffed the same in the direction of Vicenza striker Cristian Galano who showed exemplary honesty and sportsmanship when questioned........
Galano had made an attempt at the opposing team's citadel and the same narrowly missed the target as the attempt on goal had deflected off the foot of a defender and hence altered or then veered off from it's intended destination.......
The defender in question hotly and somewhat imperiously questioned the officiating match official's decision to award a corner to the visiting Vicenza team and wanted him to verify whether or not the ball had indeed touched his foot and then deflected out of bounds as deemed by the referee in the midst of the on field action.......
Though perturbed and confounded by the defender's temerity and gall; Mainardi thought it prudent to check with Galano and was more than pleasantly surprised when Galano more than candidly admitted that the ball had gone out of bounds on it's own and not taken a deflection from the defenders foot as deemed by Mr. Mainardi.......
Instantly recognising his all to rare candour and sportive spirit Mainardi digged deep into the pocket where he kept his red; yellow and green cards and held the green card aloft for more than a few seconds as a mark of respect for a player who had showed the rest of the sporting world how the game of football should be played every single time.........
I for one do ardently hope and pray that other footballing leagues inundating the footballing world will similarly follow suit and start flashing more green than red and yellow cards thereby putting all expressed doubts about the game getting all the more acrimonious and less than honest with the dawning of each day of the burgeoning footballing calendar......
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