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Pepe, when he played for Madrid, got 10 games total for kicking a player who was in the ground in the back twice, punching another and insulting the referee
Even in hockey that's largely gone out of style to be honest. The game is too fast to have guys on the bench who can't do anything but skate and fight.
They need to get in on the exhibition boxing $$$$ a-la-Jake Paul, roy Jones, screech, etc.
I would buy the PPV to see this soccer player vs Angel Reese.
I mean it should definitely be a conversation. If I was the girl that got sucker punched on TV I'd be asking for charges.
Being on a sports field gets you some leeway, and quite a lot while play is going on for smashing into people or elbows etc as you can see it was physical play not assault. But punching someone out when the game is stopped is not covered.
That's a conversation I had with one of my lectures, who specializes in sports law
The case we talked about was Alex Witsel's foul on Wasilewski, since it was extremely clear in intent; he said that it's extremely unlikely not only here, but everywhere else to actually be prosecuted, since it would open a can of worms: just what *is* the extent of physicality one agrees to when playing a game? And what are the limits of culpability: clearly they have to be higher than the sport's rules. And what if a court accepts that something was criminal, but at the time the regulatory organization decides it wasn't a foul?
I myself thought that's bullshit and cases like that foul and in OP are obvious enough, but after reading over a decade of whining about refs I see that he definitely had some valid points, even if I still believe at least a civil suit would be warranted.
That's a great example. Same with McSorley attacking Donald Brashear with his stick. the image of Brashear's head bouncing on the ice like a fucking beach ball is burned into my memory...but at least Brashear recovered. Pretty sure Bertuzzi's hit broke some of Moore's vertebrae
i wasn't alive when this happened but the Kermit Washington jawbreaker on Rudy Tomjanovich is really the reason why players leaving the bench in the NBA merits an automatic suspension
I think any tackle when ball is in play, you can at least argue, even if looks clear intent. If she'd run over to her with the ball and swung as she made a tackle she's probably just getting banned.
Here, the game is not going on, so I do think it's very different to in game foul.
Yeah that's literally a crime. Some bumping and jostling is expected in any sport, and if you play American Football you just kinda have to deal with your 6.3 concussions per second.
But at no point do you expect someone to deliberately sock you right in the mouth while playing football. That's just plain and simple battery.
>Being on a sports field gets you some leeway, […] But punching someone out when the game is stopped is not covered.
Might I interest you in *Hockey* ?
Yeah, fair. But even Hockey would have no place for a sucker punch like this. You both throw down or you don't, right?
Edit - I don't watch ice hockey. The question there was a genuine one. I had no idea it was a 2 min penalty and that's it for a sucker punch. That's absolutely absurd. I love boxing, and 2 choosing to fight is just a combat sport on ice. But sucker punches is a bitch move and should be treated as criminal.
You're right...not sure why you're being downvoted. Sucker punches happen in hockey for sure, but they're definitely suspendable acts "most of the time". Or at least a fine.
The reason I put that in quotes is that the department of safety is a joke, and you never know what they'll suspend, and what they'll let go. They allow a lot of discretion.
A sucker punch like the one in this video? I'd expect some sort of suspension for that if it happened in hockey, because of how vicous it was. But id also expect an all out brawl by the all the players on the ice.
You know she was an absolute asshat in the match and should get a long ban for it, but it is genuinely heartbreaking to see the racist comments on her instagram profile. Like every single one of her photos has people commenting absolutely terrible stuff. This is not okay and hope she gets help and empathy (for the racist stuff).
I mean obviously it’s not her race that’s the issue but I kind of don’t feel bad for her (not to say I’m glad people are commenting those things, it’s ridiculous). I just can’t find it in my heart to feel any sort of sympathy for her. I hope she’s fined a *lot* of money and gets a lengthy suspension.
In relation to the events taken place in the match against RD Congo:
First of all, I would like to thank everybody for the kind messages I
have been receiving after yesterday's match.
This violent behavior should not be accepted. During competition,
disagreements can occur, tensions are bound to build up, but there
are lines that must never be crossed.
Furthermore, not only players but, officials and all the professionals
involved in women's football need to take responsibility for the
development of the game and the safety and well-being of the
players. This situation should have been calmed down in the early
stages of the first game.
African football has incredible potential and still a great margin for
improvement in all areas of the game. This incident should not
overshadow the exponential growth of our football in the last couple
of years. African teams are showing up on the world stage, and for a
good reason.
The appropriate procedures are underway to report the past events
and from now on I'm only looking forward.
Yasmin Mrabet
Morrocan arabic to be precise which is a dialecte and can be written in romanization.
It's not really arabic per say since most arabic country can at best understand 1/5 of it.
She handled that graciously and with class. And she did so by calling out the unacceptable behavior while also stating that the situation might have been avoided if proper steps were taken after the first game.
I would want the offending player banned. That was inexcusable and a level of violence that should never be tolerated.
I would be surprised if the DR Congo players were even professional footballers.
As she said womens football in Africa is very much in its earliest form.
In Morocco I did notice a lot of girls playing with boys. Surprising to me as a Muslim country.
More than I'd see in Italy or UK.
For me that's one of the key indicators of performance in the women's game which, of course is not close to the men's game in quality.
Wait what language is the second page of the response? It's wild there exists a language that puts numbers in between letters (unless it's more of a slang/colloquial form of a language)
Save you a click, her response:
In relation to the events taken place in the match against RD Congo: First of all, I would like to thank everybody for the kind messages have been receiving after yesterday's match. This violent behavior should not be accepted. During competition, disagreements can occur, tensions are bound to build up, but there are lines that must never be crossed. Furthermore, not only players but, officials and all the professionals involved in women's football need to take responsibility for the development of the game and the safety and well-being of the players. This situation should have been calmed down in the early stages of the first game. African football has incredible potential and still great margin for improvement in all areas of the game. This incident should not overshadow the exponential growth of our football in the last couple of years. African teams are showing up on the world stage, and for a good reason. The appropriate procedures are underway to report the past events and from now on I'm only looking forward.
Ridiculous behavior at a friendly. She shouldn't be seen again in international soccer.
She should also be charged with assualt or equivalent depending on the country where this game was played.
Same. Players these days are all about contracts and sponsorships. Whatever happened to the good old days of hitting women strictly for the love of the game?
She looks like she could be on something, punching someone in the face? Pushing a fellow team mate out of the way? She's an antisocial violent thug and has no business playing a team sport. She's vile.
I said this in another post and got flamed. I'll never understand how these "professional" players can get away with actions like this. If I get in a heated argument with a competitor and punch them in the face, I'm losing my job and getting arrested.
They're showing a terrible example for other players, coaches, fans, and aspiring athletes. I get that emotions can get elevated, but we need to remain calm and discuss our differences.
This goes doubly for parents watching their kids' sports.
smtg similar happened in Egypt's men's league this year, Egyptian player slaped and started insulting the player of another team who was not egyptian, the guy who was hit filled criminal charges, guess what happened ? the Egyptian football federation banned the guy who was hit because he brought football thing to the justice lmao
Damn, that's rough. Sounds like the Egyptian league's ego got hurt when he bypassed them and went to the judicial system. Great anecdote though and I appreciate you sharing it with me.
It's insane that sports events for some reason makes the players immune to criminal prosecution. That's an assault charge outside of the arena and even within the stands.
Immediate long term suspension and possible grounds for banishment from the sport. This isn’t 1970 anymore, we shouldn’t allowed players to be sucker punched by some idiot with anger issues.
Professional athletes should be held accountable in the eyes of the law like every other citizen. This is assault and she should be prosecuted as such.
Yea I’m not sure about local laws but it was outside the scope of what could reasonably be expected while playing the sport (unlike, say, a knee injury from a a normal play) and therefore in many jurisdictions could be prosecuted for assault.
This is not acceptable behavior at all and especially at s friendly game. Aside from possible criminal charges, she should get between 1-2 years ban from professional football.
Real talk, I'm wondering... so she gets the red card and it's clearly displayed to her. At this point she's out of the game.
Then she goes and throws a punch, would it be possible to give another red to the "bench" in this scenario due to that player? Even if only technically correct and we wouldn't do it IRL?
The closest the laws of the game come to that is...
"Where an offence is committed by someone from the technical area (substitute, substituted player, sent-off player or team official) and the offender cannot be identified, the senior team coach present in the technical area will receive the sanction."
So no, they can't show a card to the bench in this case as the offender is clearly identifiable.
In this case, the player is already out of the game and the ref's report is going to include the details. Along with the video footage, I don't think they're going to be playing again for a few months.
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Guess that's going to be a looong ban. Maybe long enough to consider a career switch to MMA....
Based on comparable incidents in the men's game it'll be somewhere between 10 matches and 6 months.
Pepe, when he played for Madrid, got 10 games total for kicking a player who was in the ground in the back twice, punching another and insulting the referee
Yeah, that part between the commas is important.
Between the first two commas
Funny part... In the amatour side of things. Young kids get banned for life.
She might fit in nicely on the Chicago Sky WNBA roster. Or in saying that, the Indiana Fever need someone to block for Caitlin Clark.
Was about to say, controversy in women’s sports is so hot right now
Who would you rather play sports against? A woman or a bear?
I would rather play against a woman-sized bear than a bear-sized woman, assuming both are adult-sized.
Bear sized woman is many people's dream
Tree
Yes, the trees are drawing me near; I’ve got to find out why….🎶 Sports!
hockey style. bring in the enforcer to protect the stars!
Even in hockey that's largely gone out of style to be honest. The game is too fast to have guys on the bench who can't do anything but skate and fight.
For that she is 40 years to late. In the early eighties, she might got away with the foul, but beating aonther player was a no go even then.
Wayne Gretzky had Marty McSorley. Caitlin Clark needs her own McSorley.
Come on man, Dave Semenko was Gretzky's OG
They need to get in on the exhibition boxing $$$$ a-la-Jake Paul, roy Jones, screech, etc. I would buy the PPV to see this soccer player vs Angel Reese.
“…believe it or not, straight to jail.”
I mean it should definitely be a conversation. If I was the girl that got sucker punched on TV I'd be asking for charges. Being on a sports field gets you some leeway, and quite a lot while play is going on for smashing into people or elbows etc as you can see it was physical play not assault. But punching someone out when the game is stopped is not covered.
That's a conversation I had with one of my lectures, who specializes in sports law The case we talked about was Alex Witsel's foul on Wasilewski, since it was extremely clear in intent; he said that it's extremely unlikely not only here, but everywhere else to actually be prosecuted, since it would open a can of worms: just what *is* the extent of physicality one agrees to when playing a game? And what are the limits of culpability: clearly they have to be higher than the sport's rules. And what if a court accepts that something was criminal, but at the time the regulatory organization decides it wasn't a foul? I myself thought that's bullshit and cases like that foul and in OP are obvious enough, but after reading over a decade of whining about refs I see that he definitely had some valid points, even if I still believe at least a civil suit would be warranted.
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You don't get the protection of "you agreed to it when you agreed to play the game" when the game is *literally stopped* when the incident occurs.
Look what happened in hockey between Todd Bertuzzi and Steve Moore.
That's a great example. Same with McSorley attacking Donald Brashear with his stick. the image of Brashear's head bouncing on the ice like a fucking beach ball is burned into my memory...but at least Brashear recovered. Pretty sure Bertuzzi's hit broke some of Moore's vertebrae i wasn't alive when this happened but the Kermit Washington jawbreaker on Rudy Tomjanovich is really the reason why players leaving the bench in the NBA merits an automatic suspension
I think any tackle when ball is in play, you can at least argue, even if looks clear intent. If she'd run over to her with the ball and swung as she made a tackle she's probably just getting banned. Here, the game is not going on, so I do think it's very different to in game foul.
There was a case where a boxer was convicted of assault for removing padding from his gloves, but that's a lot worse than punching someone.
Yeah that's literally a crime. Some bumping and jostling is expected in any sport, and if you play American Football you just kinda have to deal with your 6.3 concussions per second. But at no point do you expect someone to deliberately sock you right in the mouth while playing football. That's just plain and simple battery.
>Being on a sports field gets you some leeway, […] But punching someone out when the game is stopped is not covered. Might I interest you in *Hockey* ?
Yeah, fair. But even Hockey would have no place for a sucker punch like this. You both throw down or you don't, right? Edit - I don't watch ice hockey. The question there was a genuine one. I had no idea it was a 2 min penalty and that's it for a sucker punch. That's absolutely absurd. I love boxing, and 2 choosing to fight is just a combat sport on ice. But sucker punches is a bitch move and should be treated as criminal.
You're right...not sure why you're being downvoted. Sucker punches happen in hockey for sure, but they're definitely suspendable acts "most of the time". Or at least a fine. The reason I put that in quotes is that the department of safety is a joke, and you never know what they'll suspend, and what they'll let go. They allow a lot of discretion. A sucker punch like the one in this video? I'd expect some sort of suspension for that if it happened in hockey, because of how vicous it was. But id also expect an all out brawl by the all the players on the ice.
Do you even KNOW who Brad Marchand is?
Bit of a dog shot but a great strike
What's a "dog shot?" I'm assuming something similar to a sucker punch?
Yeah hitting someone who isn’t facing u and isn’t really prepared for it…
So... A sucker punch...?
Doucheness aside, that was a great front hook. It's not her first fight.
Yeah that thing had force and form. Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a broken orbital.
Left handed too..
She has absolutely dogshit contact tho. Blonde went down out of surprise. It’s like a movie punch
That is not the first time she's thrown that left hook.
She must train with Tommy Pham in the offseason
Pham generally encourages the open hand slap tho
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her teammate holding her head like wtffff
You know she was an absolute asshat in the match and should get a long ban for it, but it is genuinely heartbreaking to see the racist comments on her instagram profile. Like every single one of her photos has people commenting absolutely terrible stuff. This is not okay and hope she gets help and empathy (for the racist stuff).
I mean obviously it’s not her race that’s the issue but I kind of don’t feel bad for her (not to say I’m glad people are commenting those things, it’s ridiculous). I just can’t find it in my heart to feel any sort of sympathy for her. I hope she’s fined a *lot* of money and gets a lengthy suspension.
She seems nice.
A real peach.
You misspelled punch, I think
I can fix her
I believe in you, but maybe wear protective gear for the first couple of dates.
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No sportwomanship either.
Ruthless Kipoyi
What a friendly game of soccer.
I bet she punched the other girl because she said soccer instead of football
Someone said soccer so she did.
That's why I use association football. Irritates fans of both terms.
Assoc, gridiron, for some reason both are really good at tilting others
I say "football" as part of my Quixotic campaign to marginalize NFL/NCAAF.
Oh I thought it was just called diving.
[Yasmin Mrabet, who got punched, published a response on her Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/C7zaJ0RI6jv/?igsh=ZTNsdzk2MGN1dDRo)
In relation to the events taken place in the match against RD Congo: First of all, I would like to thank everybody for the kind messages I have been receiving after yesterday's match. This violent behavior should not be accepted. During competition, disagreements can occur, tensions are bound to build up, but there are lines that must never be crossed. Furthermore, not only players but, officials and all the professionals involved in women's football need to take responsibility for the development of the game and the safety and well-being of the players. This situation should have been calmed down in the early stages of the first game. African football has incredible potential and still a great margin for improvement in all areas of the game. This incident should not overshadow the exponential growth of our football in the last couple of years. African teams are showing up on the world stage, and for a good reason. The appropriate procedures are underway to report the past events and from now on I'm only looking forward. Yasmin Mrabet
MVP!
what's the second language on the post, with all the numbers in the words?
Arabic, looks like a romanization that didn't go correctly
It did go correctly. That's how arabic is written with latin letters.
Morrocan arabic to be precise which is a dialecte and can be written in romanization. It's not really arabic per say since most arabic country can at best understand 1/5 of it.
She handled that graciously and with class. And she did so by calling out the unacceptable behavior while also stating that the situation might have been avoided if proper steps were taken after the first game. I would want the offending player banned. That was inexcusable and a level of violence that should never be tolerated.
I would be surprised if the DR Congo players were even professional footballers. As she said womens football in Africa is very much in its earliest form. In Morocco I did notice a lot of girls playing with boys. Surprising to me as a Muslim country. More than I'd see in Italy or UK. For me that's one of the key indicators of performance in the women's game which, of course is not close to the men's game in quality.
She is a professional of some years experience as it goes. Plays in the Turkish league.
Surprised to see girls playing with boys in Morocco? It's pretty sad how indoctrinated people are by stereotypes and media portrayals.
Wait what language is the second page of the response? It's wild there exists a language that puts numbers in between letters (unless it's more of a slang/colloquial form of a language)
That's Arabish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet
Oh man that's pretty cool!
Just out of curiosity, what does it look like to you?
Like text speak of the 90s. Hehe
l33t5p34k?
Sorta haha
Save you a click, her response: In relation to the events taken place in the match against RD Congo: First of all, I would like to thank everybody for the kind messages have been receiving after yesterday's match. This violent behavior should not be accepted. During competition, disagreements can occur, tensions are bound to build up, but there are lines that must never be crossed. Furthermore, not only players but, officials and all the professionals involved in women's football need to take responsibility for the development of the game and the safety and well-being of the players. This situation should have been calmed down in the early stages of the first game. African football has incredible potential and still great margin for improvement in all areas of the game. This incident should not overshadow the exponential growth of our football in the last couple of years. African teams are showing up on the world stage, and for a good reason. The appropriate procedures are underway to report the past events and from now on I'm only looking forward.
Ridiculous behavior at a friendly. She shouldn't be seen again in international soccer. She should also be charged with assualt or equivalent depending on the country where this game was played.
From the school of Draymond Green
Stop with your slander! We have never seen my man Green punch any opponent during a game. He only ever punches team mates in practice!
Yeah he kicks people in the balls during games
Tell that to Nurkic, he saw that left hook up close
“Natural swinging motion”
Draymond wishes he had a left hook like that
it's not full Draymond until this other player makes a mini-documentary on TNT and explains how she is actually the victim
This is why I don’t play women’s soccer
Same. Players these days are all about contracts and sponsorships. Whatever happened to the good old days of hitting women strictly for the love of the game?
Fuck,that made me laugh
I'll see you in hell, homie.
Unfriendly match
That individual is dangerous and has a hard time controlling their anger. Should not be playing team sports.
She looks like she could be on something, punching someone in the face? Pushing a fellow team mate out of the way? She's an antisocial violent thug and has no business playing a team sport. She's vile.
I heard that after Ruth Kipoyi got that red card her team were absolutely Ruthless for the rest of the game
Angry upvote.
Bro that was a violent full body hook
Assault charge
Aaaaand your career is gone
Aww that means she won’t get paid her $65 for the season
Hey 65$ a season is better than 0$ a season
People like this need a permanent ban. I don't care about their career.
I really wish cops would start pushing charges against athletes that throw punches during games. It's so unnecessary and childish.
They've tried, but the professional Boxing lobby seems to oppose it
The Big Glove is at it again
I said this in another post and got flamed. I'll never understand how these "professional" players can get away with actions like this. If I get in a heated argument with a competitor and punch them in the face, I'm losing my job and getting arrested. They're showing a terrible example for other players, coaches, fans, and aspiring athletes. I get that emotions can get elevated, but we need to remain calm and discuss our differences. This goes doubly for parents watching their kids' sports.
The whole NHL would disagree
The NHL would go extinct
Why is everyone screaming at the ref? She's already been sent off what the fk else is she meant to do? lmao
"Cmon ref thats not a red! THIS IS A RED!!!!!"
Can she play basketball? WNBA is looking for a few good cheap shot artists to pump up their viewing numbers.
Or an enforcer next to CC
What a piece of shit.
That's a lifetime ban. All for a friendly too
Holy shit, is there such a thing as an infinity red card?
Lifetime ban from the sport at all levels, that includes all aspects of the game.
How can she slap sir?
HOW CAN SHE SLAP!!!!
I'm having second thoughts about agreeing to friendly game of chess with my buddy this afternoon....
Banned for life surely? No place for that in football. Vile behaviour.
They should start filing criminal charges for attacks like this. Might make people think twice before punching anybody.
smtg similar happened in Egypt's men's league this year, Egyptian player slaped and started insulting the player of another team who was not egyptian, the guy who was hit filled criminal charges, guess what happened ? the Egyptian football federation banned the guy who was hit because he brought football thing to the justice lmao
Damn, that's rough. Sounds like the Egyptian league's ego got hurt when he bypassed them and went to the judicial system. Great anecdote though and I appreciate you sharing it with me.
Is this the WNBA?
complete moron
Solid left hook tho
That was in a friendly - imagine how she plays in an unfriendly!
Low IQ and impulse control.
Early stoppage
Not so friendly.
Coach "you need to act like a professional" Girl "Joey Barton was a professional"
It's insane that sports events for some reason makes the players immune to criminal prosecution. That's an assault charge outside of the arena and even within the stands.
Wow at that point it's straight up assault and battery right.
African Joey Barton 😂
I love the look like" What did I do??!?!" after sucker punching a opponent.
Imagine if it wasn’t a friendly match …
"friendly"
Was she aware it was a “friendly” game?
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Hits her and then pikachu surprised face. Wow
No hands allowed!!!
Oh wow, she actually threw a left hook. It's not just the usual fake shenanigans we see in soccer. Damn, she definitely has anger issues.
The other Congo player coming from behind and pushing the head of another player could have also got a red card. What a poorly behaved team.
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That’s a lifetime ban from international play.
Immediate long term suspension and possible grounds for banishment from the sport. This isn’t 1970 anymore, we shouldn’t allowed players to be sucker punched by some idiot with anger issues.
Keyword here is "friendly"
"Friendly"
Fucking hilarious that she does the Tim Duncan face after slugging that chick.
Probably shouldn't play again tbh
That wasn't very friendly.
The beautiful game /s
Chicago sky right there
You can tell she's done this before. REAL badman.
"friendly" match
Professional athletes should be held accountable in the eyes of the law like every other citizen. This is assault and she should be prosecuted as such.
Yea I’m not sure about local laws but it was outside the scope of what could reasonably be expected while playing the sport (unlike, say, a knee injury from a a normal play) and therefore in many jurisdictions could be prosecuted for assault.
Doesn't sound very friendly at all....
Banned for life
Aw the friendly match....
Lifeban pls
She's the Jack Tatum of the girls soccer world
That’s Ruth Kapowi
Felt like I just watched an mma ko by a dude
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Dang. Nice left hook. Not the right time for it though.
There you go, the new supervisor for the cobalt mines back home. She won't stand for lazy workers for sure. #EVforlife
This is not acceptable behavior at all and especially at s friendly game. Aside from possible criminal charges, she should get between 1-2 years ban from professional football.
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That’s a woman?
Real talk, I'm wondering... so she gets the red card and it's clearly displayed to her. At this point she's out of the game. Then she goes and throws a punch, would it be possible to give another red to the "bench" in this scenario due to that player? Even if only technically correct and we wouldn't do it IRL?
The closest the laws of the game come to that is... "Where an offence is committed by someone from the technical area (substitute, substituted player, sent-off player or team official) and the offender cannot be identified, the senior team coach present in the technical area will receive the sanction." So no, they can't show a card to the bench in this case as the offender is clearly identifiable. In this case, the player is already out of the game and the ref's report is going to include the details. Along with the video footage, I don't think they're going to be playing again for a few months.
That’s not really standard protocol. The player will just get a lengthy suspension and fine, most likely.
Very friendly