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Footballer banned for 50 years after kicking ball in referee’s face
• Ricardo Ferreira also sprayed water at Swiss official
• ‘I had expected one or two years maximum. But 50?’
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Ricardo Ferreira said ‘football’s my life’ after being banned for 50 years after kicking a ball in a referee’s face. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins
Guardian sport
Friday 31 October 2014 20.15 EDT
A fourth division player in Switzerland has been handed a 50-year ban after kicking a ball in the referee’s face and then spraying him with water.
According to the Swiss newspaper Blick, the defender Ricardo Ferreira of Portugal Futebol Clube was an unused substitute in the 1-0 defeat by SC Worb in the local Bern league. But it was not until after the match that he entered the fray, kicking the ball in the referee’s face and then hurling insults as the official made his way to the tunnel before squirting him with water.
“We do not want such a player in our league,” said Robert Breiter, the lawyer of Switzerland’s amateur football league. “Unfortunately we encounter such cases about once a year.”
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• Ricardo Ferreira also sprayed water at Swiss official
• ‘I had expected one or two years maximum. But 50?’
World Cup 2010 referee whistle
Ricardo Ferreira said ‘football’s my life’ after being banned for 50 years after kicking a ball in a referee’s face. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins
Guardian sport
Friday 31 October 2014 20.15 EDT
A fourth division player in Switzerland has been handed a 50-year ban after kicking a ball in the referee’s face and then spraying him with water.
According to the Swiss newspaper Blick, the defender Ricardo Ferreira of Portugal Futebol Clube was an unused substitute in the 1-0 defeat by SC Worb in the local Bern league. But it was not until after the match that he entered the fray, kicking the ball in the referee’s face and then hurling insults as the official made his way to the tunnel before squirting him with water.
“We do not want such a player in our league,” said Robert Breiter, the lawyer of Switzerland’s amateur football league. “Unfortunately we encounter such cases about once a year.”
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