🚨 The Prestianni rule causes a red card at the World Cup!

🚨 The Prestianni rule causes a red card at the World Cup!It's a first of its kind!Tonight, Paraguay face Türkiye in their second Group D match.

The Paraguayans thought they had done the hard part by taking the lead through Matias Galarza after just 64 seconds of play.But then a major turning point came just before half-time. After a poor tackle and a tense moment between the two teams on the pitch, the match referee was called over to review the VAR.

When he looked at the screen, it became clear during the tense moment that Miguel Almiron was speaking to Mert Muldur while covering his mouth.Without hesitation, Mr Ivan Barton then showed a red card to the Paraguayan forward, thereby enforcing the "Prestianni rule" for the first time.As a reminder, following the incident between Vinicius Jr and Gianluca Prestianni, in which the former accused the latter of making racist remarks while covering his mouth, FIFA introduced a new rule.

It provides for a red card to be shown to any player who covers his mouth while speaking during a confrontation with an opponent, in order to prevent discriminatory or offensive behaviour.As well as sadly becoming the first player punished under this new rule, Miguel Almiron leaves his teammates down to 10 men for the final 45 minutes of the match.This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence.

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