In the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup the main disciplinary action taken against players comes in the form of red and yellow cards.
Any player picking up a red card is expelled from the pitch and automatically banned for his country's next match, whether via a straight red or second yellow.
Disciplinary statistics Total number of yellow cards: 48 Average yellow cards per match: 1.71 Total number of red cards: 1 Average red cards per match: 0.04 Total number of red cards via second yellow card: 2 Average red cards via second yellow card per match: 0.07 First yellow card: Abdullah Al Qsami – Oman against Argentina First red card: Hassan Abdollahi – Iran against Switzerland Fastest yellow card from kick off: 0:25 minutes – Tomas Hernandez – El Salvador against Portugal Most yellow cards (team): 5 – Senegal Most red cards (team): 1 – Iran Fewest yellow cards (team): 0 – Argentina Most yellow cards (player): 3 – Hamid Ghorbanpour, Pape Koukpaki Most red cards (player): 1 – Hassan Abdollahi Most yellow cards (match): 6 – Iran against Italy Most red cards (match): 1 – Iran against Switzerland Fewest yellow cards (match): 0 – Oman against El Salvador, Nigeria against Russia Most cards in one match: 6 yellow cards and 1 red card – Italy v Iran
Sanctions By match Note: In this table the "Yellow" column counts only the first yellow card given to a player in a match. If a player receives a second yellow in the same match this is counted under "Second yellow" DayMatch Round RefereeTotal cards Yellow Second yellow Straight red Day 01 Group A Juan Rodriguez 5 5 0 0 Day 01 Group A Javier Bentancor 7 6 1 0 Day 01 Group B Ruben Eiriz 1 1 0 0 Day 01 Group B Tasuku Onodera 2 2 0 0 Day 02 Group C Istvan Meszaros 1 1 0 0 Day 02 Group D Tomasz Winiarczyk 1 1 0 0 Day 03 Group A Ruben Eiriz 2 1 0 1 Day 03 Group A Jelili Ogunmuyiwa 2 2 0 0 Day 03 Group B Alexander Berezkin 2 2 0 0 Day 04 Group C Oscar Arosemena 2 2 0 0 Day 04 Group D Alexander Berezkin 4 4 0 0 Day 05 Group A Miguel Lopez 2 2 0 0 Day 05 Group B Jose Cortez 5 4 1 0 Day 06 Group C Ebrahim Almansory 4 4 0 0 Day 06 Group D Tomasz Winiarczyk 1 1 0 0 Day 08 Quarterfinals Istvan Meszaros 1 1 0 0 Day 08 Quarterfinals Tasuku Onodera 3 3 0 0 Day 08 Quarterfinals Jose Cortez 2 2 0 0 Day 08 Quarterfinals Alexander Berezkin 2 2 0 0 Total 51 48 2 1
By referee RefereeMatches Yellow Second yellow RedPKs awarded Ebrahim Almansory 2 4 0 0 2 Oscar Arosemena 2 2 0 0 2 Javier Bentancor 1 6 1 0 2 Alexander Berezkin 2 6 0 0 2 Jose Cortez 2 4 1 0 1 Ivo De Moraes 1 0 0 0 1 Ruben Eiriz 3 2 0 1 1 Said Hachim 1 0 0 0 0 Miguel Lopez 1 2 0 0 0 Istvan Meszaros 1 1 0 0 0 Jelili Ogunmuyiwa 1 2 0 0 0 Tasuku Onodera 1 2 0 0 2 Juan Rodriguez 1 5 0 0 0 Tomasz Winiarczyk 2 2 0 0 1 Suwat Wongsuwan 1 0 0 0 0
By team Team Yellow Second yellow Red Total 1 0 0 1 5 0 0 5 6 1 1 8 5 0 0 5 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 4 3 0 0 3 4 1 0 5 5 0 0 5 5 0 0 5 2 0 0 2 3 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 3
By individual NameTeam Yellow Second yellow RedTotal Hamed Ghorbanpour 2 1 0 3 Pape Koukpaki 2 0 0 2 Rui Coimbra 2 0 0 2 Al Seyni Ndiaye 2 0 0 2 Giuseppe Soria 2 0 0 2 Hassan Abdollahi 1 0 1 2 Khalid Al Rajhi 1 1 0 2 Yahya Al Araimi 1 0 0 1 Nasser Al Mukhaini 1 0 0 1 Abdullah Al Qasmi 1 0 0 1 Wilber Alvarado 1 0 0 1 Marama Amau 1 0 0 1 Anderson 1 0 0 1 Ibrahima Bakhoum 1 0 0 1 Nuno Belchior 1 0 0 1 Igor Borsuk 1 0 0 1 Farid Boulokbashi 1 0 0 1 Gian Luca Cardone 1 0 0 1 Francisco Cati 1 0 0 1 Francesco Corosiniti 1 0 0 1 Libasse Diagne 1 0 0 1 Miguel Estrada 1 0 0 1 Tomoya Ginoza 1 0 0 1 Gabriele Gori 1 0 0 1 Paulo Graça 1 0 0 1 Tomas Hernandez 1 0 0 1 Bartholomew Ibenegbu 1 0 0 1 Kaspar Jaeggy 1 0 0 1 Mo Jaeggy 1 0 0 1 Nico Jung 1 0 0 1 Francisco Landaeta 1 0 0 1 Ilya Leonov 1 0 0 1 Aleksey Makarov 1 0 0 1 Marcos Monsalve 1 0 0 1 Benjamin Mosco 1 0 0 1 Ali Naderi 1 0 0 1 James Okwuosa 1 0 0 1 Musa Najare 1 0 0 1 Bruno Novo 1 0 0 1 James Okwuosa 1 0 0 1 Paolo Palmacci 1 0 0 1 Elias Ramirez 1 0 0 1 Agustin Ruiz 1 0 0 1 Walter Torres 1 0 0 1
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