Just to throw a bit of locality into the world cup frey Josip Simunic playing for Croatia born in Canberra… earned himself THREE yellow cards in the Socceroos Match against Croatia this morning. Normally two yellows results in a player being sent off.
Not being a massive soccer buff I don’t know if anything like this has happened before… but he probably should have had another one early on in the match when he rugby tackled Australian Captain Mark Viduka in the goal box. We shall await what FIFA has to say about it.
Anyway the end result of 2 all was a good result for the Aussies, granting them the opportunity to play in the next round of 16 nations.
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