yesterday:.
An under-20 soccer match in Brazil descended into chaos and the referee was forced to hand out an unprecedented 53 red cards after a brawl broke out on the pitch. The game was stopped for 40 minutes, but was finally resumed and the Mamora team scored another goal in the 9th minute of the break to make it 3-1.
According to the Brazilian media, one of Mamour's players taunted the Oberlandia players while celebrating after the goal, and this led to a massive fight between the members of the two teams and the issuing of a large number of red cards.
A total of 43 players, eight members of the technical staff and two members of the board of directors of the Overlandia club were dismissed, bringing the number of dismissals to 53.
The previous Guinness record for the most reds in a soccer match was 36, set in February 2011 during a match in Argentina's fifth division between Atlético Claypool and Victoriano Arenas.
A day before: Jesus de Miguel, the 30-year-old striker of Tenerife, died after a serious injury in one of the matches of the second division of Spanish football. On Monday, in the meeting with Andorra, this striker was injured in the head and chest in a severe collision with the goalkeeper of this team. Ono was sent off for this collision.
De Miguel's condition was said to be "stable but serious" on Monday, but the Spaniard's condition worsened on Tuesday morning and he died at 7am GMT (8am local time).
"With a broken heart and a lump in the throat, while still unable to believe that it really happened, Club Tenerife announces the sad death of Jesus de Miguel Alameda," said a statement from Club Tenerife. "No words can comfort. Nothing can lessen this infinite sorrow. We are with his grieving family, his loved ones and all the residents of Tenerife who are grieving this painful loss today."