Minas Gerais under-20 football match 51 red cards, Digi Mart USA News (Brazil): A state under-20 football match in Brazil may have set an unwanted world record with 51 red cards. A total of 43 players and eight members of the coaching staff were sent off during and after Mamoré’s 3-1 victory over Uberlândia in the second-division semifinals of the Minas Gerais state under-20 championship, played on Sunday.
According to the Guinness World Records book, the largest number of red cards shown in a professional football match is 36. That mark was set in 2011, during a match in Argentina’s fifth division between Atlético Claypole and Victoriano Arenas.
In the match report, referee Fernando Patrick Modesto states that 48 people, including players and coaching staff, were sent off due to a fight that broke out after the third goal. He wrote that during the celebration of his team’s third goal, a player made provocative gestures toward the home team’s bench and said words that the referee included in his report.
Afterward, two Mamoré players were sent off: one for threatening to strike the referee and another for punching an opponent after the fight. An Uberlândia player had already been shown a red card earlier for receiving a second yellow card.
