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.
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.
