Yesterday's match of the 1/4 finals of the 2022 World Cup, the Netherlands - Argentina (2:2, on pen. - 2:4) went down in the history of the World Cup in terms of the degree of rudeness of football players.
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During the entire time of this meeting, the chief referee Antonio Miguel Mateu Laos showed 18 yellow cards (seven to the Dutch, eight to the Argentines), and this was a record figure in the history of the World Championships. The previous "rudeness record" was recorded at the 2002 World Cup in Cameroon - Germany: then the referee showed 12 yellow cards and 2 red cards.