Sanction of 50 years for a Portuguese footballer

Sanction of 50 years for a Portuguese footballer fan for assaulting to a referee. If it fulfilled the punishment could not play until be 78 years old

The Portuguese Ricardo Ferreira, footballer interested of Portugal Futebol Clube, has been sanctioned without playing during 50 years in Switzerland. The player threw water and abused to the referee, after the balloon hit in the face of the referee by a shot of Ferreira. If it fulfilled the punishment, the player will be able to follow training with the mates, but would not go back to play until having 78 years.

The Portuguese player, of 28 years, found in the bench during the party against the SC Worb, with the result of 1-0. As it aims the Swiss newspaper "Blick", when finishing the party, Ricardo Ferreira pateó the ball in the face of the referee, that showed him the red card before going out felt dizzy of the terrain of game. Ferreira was controlled by his mates to avoid that the situation worsened. The player declared that "the shot was without wanting to", but this did not serve to withdraw the sanction to the player.

"A player like this do not need it in the terrain of game", explained Robert Breit, pleaded of the Swiss Federation of Football. In reality, the sanction to the player is "by an indeterminate time", but the computing of the Swiss federation has played a bad past to the footballer, since, when demanding a final date of sanction and not existing, by defect, fixed it in 50 years. "I am known between the referees and in the Federation, is true. Could expect me a sanction of a year or two. But fifty? The football is my life", explained Ferreira in the newspaper "Blick".