http://www.thelocal.se/20160524/why-swedish-football-is-introducing-a-green-card
>the Stockholm Football Association will introduce a green card in the capital’s biggest youth football tournament this summer. The card won’t be used as punishment, but rather, it will reward youngsters for good behaviour on the pitch in an effort to encourage them to adhere to fair play. Instead of being handed out by the referee, the green card will be awarded at the end of a match by each of the head coaches to a player on the opposition team.
>“It’s not unusual to see senior players shouting, complaining to the referee. That’s the standard the kids see too. We’re choosing to work on what we can affect, hope it becomes a good routine, then take it from there,” he noted.
What has your country done to curb aggressive play?
>>67817999
>giving the kids their green cards
Well, my country certainly hasn't given permission to dirty foreigners to play soccer here.
Explain yourselves, swedkux.
>>67817999
It's always fucking Sweden. What's wrong with them, why do they hate aggressivity so much? It's half the fun of playing competitive sports.
>>67818018
The concept behind your joke was good, just executed really poorly
>>67818093
I think they've been basically a testing ground for CIA and KGB mind techniques tbqh
Dead serious.
>>67818093
It was first introduced in Serie B m8
SWEDEN YES
>>67817999
aaaaand of course it's sweden
>>67818128
Mind you, that was shit too, but it was totally different. Rewarding fair play (meaning actual actions) is totally different from rewarding meek behaviour (meaning don't make trouble).
>People joking about sweden when it was first introduced in Serie B
>it's a sweden yes episode
>>67818195
Shut up fake Turkey
>>67818195
It's a different thing. In serie B, it can be assigned if the referee thinks you've done a remarkably sportsmanlike act after the game (afaik not even one assignation yet kek), in Sweden they want to use it to single out the least troublesome player (as decided by the opposing coach) every game.
>>67817999
Already been used in the Italian Serie B this season, I think a total of one or two green cards were awarded during the entire year
So basically a pointless thing to create a few headlines
So how exactly does this sjw card help your team win the game?
As /pol/ would say, SWEDEN YES
SUECIA SI
>>67818339
Both teams win because both teams participated, made a lot of effort and respected the rival. There will be no more losers in football.
>sweden yes
>>67817999
if it helps stop diving that would be swell. but thats doubtful
>the next thing to happen is they complain that players of a browner skin tone get less green cards than ethnic swedish players
>>67818093
Italia was first with this
good. I've got too many friends who probably got their career ruined from a bad tackle during sessions a clubs academy.
Didn't some school in England force kids to sign a contract with football rules against celebrating, keeping score and complaining about the ref?
SVEZIA SI
>>67818460
Your version is different. You're not gonna reward rare and exceptionally sportsmanlike acts, you're gonna ask the opposing coach to single out the least troublesome player after each game. Can't you really see the difference? It's a really bad message.
السويد نعم
Ok, but what does the green card actually award them?
>>67818554
citizenship m8
>>67818299
>>67818460
Fuck off niggerlovers
>>67818522
>encouraging players not to chimp out and dive around is a bad message
???
I don't know what to say anymore.
It was Sweden tier.
>>67818593
>t. france
>>67817999
literally one of the biggest assholes in the whole game is swedish
SWEDEN YES
>>67819607
>"Swedish"
Why is always Sweden?
>>67819607
>the next Zlatan will be a pussyfooted dindunuffin
>>67817999
>giving out green cards for good work
I'm pretty sure this was our idea
It's a fucking youth tournament for kids, a lot of countries probably have. Quick google returned that Ireland does something similar.
http://www.fai.ie/domestic/future-football/green-card
>>67819638
>>67819651
>its his fault his family had to leave a fucking warzone
hes as bosnian as you and me are Irish/german/english etc
>>67819651
>year 2030
>malmo vs real madrid
>pepe jr slide tackles some swedish fag
>no red because halal refball
>NO RETALIATION because muh green card filosophee
>>67819666
What's the point of it anyway? Does this green card includes a discount coupon for ikea, a free puppy, a 1 year subscription to Le Daily Mail or anything actually tangible?
>>67818105
Agreed
>>67819882
I don't know, maybe it smells like apples or something pleasant.
>>67817999
I actually applaud sweden for this. Too many players thinking their hard and go in for shitty challenges. We need more Maldinis, not Pepes and Ramos.
t. player who's knees were fucked over one too many times by dirty tackles.
>>67818873
you do that by sending off players who chimp out and dive, not by rewarding players for following the rules
>Under controversial new proposals, it has also been suggested that clubs who take an active role in welcoming new migrants will be given a 5 point advantage. Benny Bjornson, owner of Stockholm-Al-Islam FC, said that abolishing his club's women's teams was a "difficult decision, but one that had to be made to help his new neighbours feel more at home"
>>67819686
He was born in kebabland and his family are kebabs, therefore he is a kebab
>>67819982
Why not?
>>67820016
professionals play for glory and/or money, not feelgoodbabbycards
>>67818105
This
>>67819960
Football is a contact sport you pussy fuck.
>>67820342
Good thing it's not a professional tournament this is used in then.
