Discipline
Note: There are no official records for cautions issued in tournaments before the introduction of yellow cards in 1970.
- Fastest caution
- first minute, Giampiero Marini ( Italy), vs Poland, 1982; Sergei Gorlukovich ( Russia), vs Sweden, 1994.
- Fastest sending off
- 56 seconds, José Batista ( Uruguay), vs Scotland, 1986.
- Fastest sending off, qualification
- 37 seconds, Rashed Al Hooti ( Bahrain), vs Iran, 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.
- Latest caution
- during penalty shootout: Edinho ( Brazil) v France 1986; Carlos Roa ( Argentina), vs England, 1998.
- Latest sending off
- after penalty shootout: Leandro Cufré ( Argentina), vs Germany, 2006 (Cufré was red carded for kicking Per Mertesacker in an altercation following the match).
- Sent off from the bench
- Claudio Caniggia ( Argentina), vs Sweden, 2002.
- Most cards (all-time, player)
- 6, Zinedine Zidane ( France, 1998–2006) and Cafu ( Brazil, 1994–2006).
- Most cautions (all-time, player)
- 6, Cafu ( Brazil, 1994–2006).
- Most sendings off (all-time, player)
- 2, Rigobert Song ( Cameroon, 1994 and 1998) and Zinedine Zidane ( France, 1998 and 2006).
- Most sendings off (tournament)
- 28 (in 64 games), 2006.
- Most sendings off (all-time, team)
- 11 (in 97 games), Brazil
- Most sendings off (match, both teams)
- 4 (2 each) in Portugal vs Netherlands, 2006 (also known as Battle of Nuremberg).
- Most sendings off (final match)
- 2, Pedro Monzón & Gustavo Dezotti (both Argentina), v West Germany, 1990
- Most cautions (tournament)
- 345 (in 64 matches), 2006.
- Most cautions (all-time, team)
- 88 (in 64 games), Argentina
- Most cautions (match, one team)
- 9, Portugal, 2006, vs Netherlands & Netherlands, 2010, vs Spain
- Most cautions (match, both teams)
- 16 – Portugal vs Netherlands, 2006; and Cameroon v Germany, June 11, 2002
- Most cautions (match, player)
- 3 (61', 90', 93') Josip Šimunić ( Croatia), vs Australia, 2006 (referee: Graham Poll)
- Most cautions (final match, both teams)
- 14, 5 ( Spain) and 9 ( Netherlands) 2010
- Most suspensions (tournament, player)
- 2, André Kana-Biyik ( Cameroon 1990)
- Longest suspension (player, doping)
- 15 months, Diego Maradona ( Argentina vs Nigeria, 1994)
- Longest suspension (player, misconduct)
- 8 matches, Mauro Tassotti ( Italy vs Spain, 1994) for elbowing Luis Enrique.
- 1 year, Samir Shaker Mahmoud ( Iraq vs Belgium, 1986) for spitting at the referee
- Longest suspension, qualifying
- Life (amnestied after 12 years): Roberto Rojas ( Chile vs Brazil, 1989) for feigning injury from a firecracker, leading to a match being abandoned.
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Famous quotes containing the word discipline:
“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)
“The first rule of education for me was discipline. Discipline is the keynote to learning. Discipline has been the great factor in my life. I discipline myself to do everything—getting up in the morning, walking, dancing, exercise. If you won’t have discipline, you won’t have a nation. We can’t have permissiveness. When someone comes in and says, “Oh, your room is so quiet,” I know I’ve been successful.”
—Rose Hoffman, U.S. public school third-grade teacher. As quoted in Working, book 8, by Studs Terkel (1973)
“The parent in charge is the disciplinarian.... I do not believe in letting discipline wait for another parent to handle it, nor do I think the father or mother should be allowed to become a shadowy figure who walks in the door and has to play the bad guy in the house.”
—Lawrence Balter (20th century)