When penalty is given, why issue red cards? FIFA cant see this?

Question

A fault by the defender.
The team is punished with a shoot out penalty. Ok, fair.

Now, why is the referee issue a red card? punish the player by sending him off? also, punish the team which left only 10 on the pitch?
And the player is banned for the next game?

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Thanks Sherwin. Fifa have just gotta do something about it.

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Mike L & Mr Question, thanks for your answers. Yes its logical. But again, when a penalty shoot out given, the entire team will be mad at their fault player.

Maybe some dangerous or harmful fault should be yellow carded.

But there are so many cases where the the ball hits defenders' hands or when the goal keeper tried to reach the ball but accidentally blocked & downed the strikers.

Yes Frank, please sack the entire FIFA committee with immediate effect!

Ajey, red card is too much..
If ref issue a walk out order/ red card, then he shouldnt penalize again with a penalty..

RealArsenal Fan, thanks, now I see that from a different perspective.
It takes me some time to reply.
Ok, but those fouls outside the box are only freekicks. Not much impact on the scoreboard result, therefore penalize the offender by flashing the cards is fair. Penalty kick is already a method of penalizing the offender and the entire team as it affecting the scoreboard on the spot- almost equal to awarding a goal difference.

Down by a goal together with short of a player kill the beautiful and fair game.

Answer 1

I am with you.. I cant see any benefit in punishing his team by bringing them down to 10 men and banning the player for the next match ... A yellow was ok but a red and a match ban???? its ridiculous.


Sherwin Vaz

Answer 2

The issue of a red card is not an issue at all. It depends on the nature of the offense. Say for instance, a player (striker) has beaten all the players and is in goal scoring position - now in all fairness, to bring him down deserves not only a card but something worse than that. It so happens that the red card works the magic for us fairly and such a player is given matching orders. Now, this is true whether a player is fowled outside the box or inside - a fowl is a fowl, and a player needs to be penalised.

Let's look at it from another perspective. If a fowl is committed somewhere in the field outside the penalty area - depending on the nature of the fowl, a player is either left alone, given a yellow card or given a red card and their opponents awarded a free kick. Now this does not change simply because the fowl is committed in the penalty area. Rules are rules regardless of where in the field.

So, for any fowl committed - the opponents are awarded a free kick and the player committing a fowl is penalised. I think this is FIFA -FAIR PLAY!

Answer 3

It is the right thing to do. I played football (soccer, for the ones who don't know any better...) for 2 years, as a semi-professional, and I know that, if the referee didn't seriously punish the ones who stop you from scoring using illegal techniques, they would do it all the time, and this is not good for the game. Believe me, football players are not better than hokey players, only that they are afraid of being eliminated.

Answer 4

See, the player if not punished will repeat it time and again just because he is confident that nothing will be done to him and he can walk away scot-free.
Also it is the team's duty as well as the manger's to inculcate fairness and proper play in the player
So FIFA made this rule in order to ensure this doesn't happen too often.

Answer 5

I agree with what most of them have said. If you don't punish them severely they will keep committing the fouls.

Modern footballers, especially those highly paid ones, are quite thick and arrogant. If they concede a goal they simply shrug it off and think 'we can always score one back'. So it's not really a great loss to them.

Answer 6

the reason red cards are given out is so that it will teach the player not to do it again and so they can also play fair..also if the player is in danger of being injured, a red card is also given...so if you play fair and safely, you wont get a red card, easy as that

Answer 7

i totaly argee with u