The South Korean team was fined 3,000 and 5 people were dyed yellow in the first game, and Ma Ning was bombarded
On Saturday, the AFC announced that South Korea had been fined $3,000 for yellow cards for five players in their opening game.
In the game against Bahrain in South Korea, Ma Ning, who served as the referee, showed a total of 7 yellow cards, including Son Heung-min, Park Yong-woo, Kim Min-jae, Lee Ji Di, and Cho Gyu-sung, five South Korean players were yellow card warnings.
After the game, the South Korean media bombarded Ma Ning, believing that he was too strict in enforcing the law and had different penalty scales for the two teams, one of the reasons being that the opponent was not shown a yellow card after Son Heung-min was kicked down.
However, according to the rules, if 5 or 5 players are punished by the referee in a match, then the AFC will impose a disciplinary sanction and the Korean Football Association will be fined $3,000 for this.
Before the game against Jordan, Klinsmann also said, "Yellow cards were part of the game, but what I didn't expect was that we got a lot of yellow cards in the first game. Players should know that once they accumulate 2 yellows, they will be automatically suspended, so they should control themselves. ”