Former FIFA referee believes blue cards will stop dissent

Duarte Gomes thinks the blue card can be effective but is worried about it making the game less fluid.

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00:00 Maybe we think one thing now and then we see it on the pitch and we say, "Whoa, it worked well!"

00:05 Or not. We are used to having yellow cards and red cards in football since 1970,

00:10 in the World Cup, after a big problem in the previous World Cup in '66. So, usually that's

00:19 enough for punishing a player if he has an unsporting behavior or if he does something

00:26 more serious. Yellow or red. At this point, what I believe the intention is, and it's a very good

00:33 intention, is to stop that increasing of dissenting and problems from players and also from the

00:40 technical coaches, from the benches, towards the referee authority. On the other hand, I do have

00:46 some worries about breaking the time again, making the game less fluid and impacting in the emotions