Video: Referee points document 51 purple card after mass brawl in Under-20 recreation in Brazil

Sports

By Linda Ikeji
5 November 2026, 9:31 am

A soccer referee has reportedly damaged a world document by handing out 51 purple playing cards in a youth soccer match in Brazil.

43 gamers and eight enjoying employees got their marching orders after a 40-minute brawl between Uberlandia and Mamore within the Minas Gerais U20 second division, which solely ended after intervention by army police, in keeping withO Tempo.

According to the referee’s report, Sunday’s brawl broke out  within the 54th minute  after Mamoré’s Davi taunted the opposition bench throughout celebrations following the third aim, and Uberlândia goalkeeping coach Paulo Sérgio Dias Dos Santos ran onto the pitch to confront him.

Chairs and stretchers have been used as weapons, with the referee’s report claiming even Uberlandia ball boys have been seen throwing kicks and punches.

Drosghic Modesto alleges demise threats and different threats of violence have been made in opposition to him by varied people. A police report was later filed in relation to the threats, the referee’s report mentioned.

The match was halted for 40 minutes, and later deserted.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the beforehand highest reported variety of purple playing cards in a single match was 36, proven in an Argentine Primera D recreation in 2011.

Watch the video under.