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I continued to research this issue and found the following USSF document. It is quite clear on how the USSF wants this handled. http://images.ussoccer.com/Documents...Suspension.pdf MEMORANDUM To: State Associations Professional Leagues From: Alfred Kleinaitis Manager of Referee Development and Education Subject: Mandatory Suspension Following Dismissal Date: October 22, 2002 FIFA Circular 821, dated October 1, 2002, reminds all national associations that any player dismissed from the field is to be automatically suspended from the next match of the competition in which the player was dismissed. This mandatory suspension is to be enforced for all dismissals (red cards) regardless of the reason and will include send-offs for receiving a second yellow card as well as for actions leading directly to the dismissal. The duration of the suspension can be extended beyond one match by the competition authority. All national associations are reminded in particular that they may not seek to avoid this binding instruction by passing "exceptional rules," i.e., a provision which creates any sort of exception. The automatic one-match suspension may only be waived if it is proven that the referee dismissed the wrong player in a case of mistaken identity. In no case may the decision of the referee be modified after the game, as is clearly stated in Law 5 of The Laws of the Game. |
Thanks for the post NR. Even this memo is our federation's reminder to all USSF affiliates that FIFA has sent out a memo that reminders everybody that they are bound by FIFA's misconduct policy.
The loophole is; "from the next match of the competition in which the player was dismissed." When players are ejected in the final match of an invitational tournament, when do they serve their suspension? TN has taken the stance, for players holding a TSSA player card, that the suspension is served the next match that the team plays as long as the match was on the team's schedule BEFORE the ejection was earned. |
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However, to my knowledge CA comes darn close to the TN method, if not doing it the same way. They want a report from the event and the player pass taken and mailed to their state office, then a suspension is handed down. I think that we can agree that any state association can be harsher than the minimum requirement, but also that any state which choses not to give a suspension for a red card earned in an event which ends is not in violation of the USSF/FIFA circular. |
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