Green Card

The Green Card is a scheme that signifies foul or to promote Fair Play. This encourages football players to play fairly and to correct them with the approach of the game. During the Conifa World Cup, the green card was first issued to Raymond Mashamba twice and was discouraged to continue playing. The main purpose of the green card is to make the players leave the field as soon as possible of the issuance, and they must be replaced if all substitutes are not yet used in the game.

As mentioned, this card acts as a Fair Play and to discipline players to create a clean game, thus resulting in the player to leave the game immediately. If the substitute wasn’t entirely used, then they can be excluded from playing in the next match. The card will show how much fairness a player can display despite the aggressiveness of the sports.

Football intends to display sportsmanship and fair play to all players. So, when the umpire catches someone violating the very nature of football, the player is forced to leave immediately and must be replaced by the bench person. As the CONIFA General Secretary Sasha Duerkop has said, the idea behind the card is to sanction and limited unsportsmanlike behavior.

One thing that Green Card is teaching players is to be disciplined at all times even when the opposing team is behaving badly. When the player is found misbehaving, then they will be sanctioned with game suspension. The only good thing is that they don’t have the ability to the burdens be carried by the whole team. This is the purpose of having a bench, to replace players from being tagged by the green card.