Players who were sent off 10 times or more

Many gamers battle thru their whole careers with out a referee ever brandishing a red card at them; some beget rather the reverse abilities.

To all of those stars, the color red will doubtless be all too familiar. Each of them, according to Transfermarkt, were given their marching orders at the very least 10 times from the year 2000 onwards.

Let’s dive in (two-footed) to our jog thru a chain of the contemporary game’s most in poor health-disciplined…

Emre

Ever the bulldog within the course of the park, Turkish fable Emre became no stranger to the predict of a red card.

And the final whistle didn’t essentially mean that the motion became over for the former Galatasaray, Fenerbahce and Newcastle man: in 2006, he came upon himself suspended for four video games for his fragment in a mass brawl among gamers and officials after Turkey’s World Cup play-off in opposition to Switzerland.

Jermaine Jones

Ex-USA worldwide Jermaine Jovnes became sent off on a number of of soccer’s glorious phases, alongside side within the 2016 Copa The US quarter-finals for shoving Antonio Valencia of Ecuador within the face.

A defensive midfielder who made most of his membership appearances for Schalke in Germany, where he became born, Jones as soon as got a two-month ban for stamping on Marco Reus’ injured foot.

Pepe

For certain one of essentially the most attention-grabbing defenders of the 21^st century, Pepe became moreover regarded as one of essentially the most notoriously uncompromising.

Sent off for membership and country, his most inappropriate dismissal came whereas taking part in for Staunch Madrid in 2009, when he became slapped with a 10-match ban for kicking and stamping on Getafe’s Jaiver Casquero.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

A different character, Zlatan Ibrahimovic accrued more than 500 profession goals – and a beautiful few sendings-off to boot.

The prolific Swedish broad, who starred for the likes of Juventus, Barcelona and PSG, obtained a chain of reds for off-the-ball incidents, which included punching, slapping, stamping on and throttling opponents – rather the rap sheet!

Ricardo Quaresma

Snappy Portuguese winger Ricardo Quaresma is recurrently a tricky participant; he may perhaps perhaps also moreover be a tricky character.

The trivela-fond Euro 2016 winner, who earned 80 worldwide caps, saw red too on the whole for the duration of his frustratingly inconsistent profession, alongside side for a significantly brainless slice of a sort out from at the succor of whereas taking part in for Besiktas.

Philippe Mexes

Feisty French defender Philippe Mexes made over 100 appearances for Auxerre, Roma and Milan, moreover representing his country on 29 occasions.

It’s beautiful to express he’s recurrently slightly of a free cannon – as evidenced by his dismissal for having one Lazio participant in a headlock and grabbing one other by the throat for the duration of a mid-match scrap in 2015.

Gonzalo Rodriguez

Argentine Centre-succor Gonzalo Rodriguez racked up more than his beautiful allotment of red cards over the course of an 18-year profession which saw him prove for San Lorenzo, Villarreal and Fiorentina.

Rodriguez became regarded as one of three Villarreal gamers given their marching orders in an in poor health-tempered Intertoto Cup conflict with Maribor in 2006.

Matteo Contini

Italian defender Matteo Contini turned out for, among different golf equipment, Parma, Napoli and Staunch Zaragoza, in a roundabout arrangement retiring from the game in 2018.

Evidently no longer essentially the most disciplined operator on the pitch, for the duration of the major Two decades of the Twenty first century he hit the dubiously impressive designate of 20 red cards.

Gary Medel

Never one to clutter with, Chilean midfield terrier Gary Medel may perhaps perhaps also no doubt catch stuck in – sometimes somewhat too stuck in.

His scorching wander became on present early in his profession: whereas taking part in for Chile within the semi-finals of the 2007 U-20 World Cup, Medel needed to seize an early bathtub after kicking Argentina’s Gabriel Mercado. Extraordinarily, he claimed that after the game, he became tasered by police as he waited to ‘beget a word’ with the referee.

Gerardo Torrado

Among essentially the most-capped gamers in worldwide soccer, Gerardo Torrado represented Mexico 144 times between 1999 and 2013, exhibiting at three World Cups.

A midfield destroyer who no doubt let his opponents know he became there, Torrado got around as many red cards as he scored goals over the course of his profession.

Fernando Amorebieta

The major Venezuelan to play within the Premier League, Fernando Amorebieta arrived at Fulham in 2013 with a chequered disciplinary record – and he saw red in each and each of his three seasons with the Cottagers.

Within the 2009/10 marketing campaign by myself, the centre-succor became booked 18 times and sent off twice whereas taking part in for Athletic Bilbao.

Felipe Melo

That Felipe Melo earned the nickname ‘Pitbull’ tells you rather lots about the Brazilian midfielder’s taking part in model.

Passionate to a fault at times, he became infamously pushed aside for a vicious tag on the Netherlands’ Wesley Sneijder as Brazil crashed out of the 2010 World Cup at the quarter-final stage. Brazil fans weren’t most attention-grabbing chuffed, greeting Felipe Melo with a torrent of abuse when the workforce returned home.

Rafael Marquez

Up there with Mexico’s glorious-ever gamers, Rafael Marquez captained his nation for many years and played for them at every World Cup from 2002 to 2018, as well to doing the treble with Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona.

Marquez’s profession became no doubt glorious; it became moreover affected by red cards, regarded as one of his most coarse coming for headbutting Cobi Jones of the US as Mexico exited the 2002 World Cup within the closing 16.

Cyril Rool

A defender and midfielder who turned out for a string of golf equipment in his native France between 1993 and 2010, most significantly Bastia, Lens and Good, Cyril Rool accrued more than 20 profession reds.

Identified for his, er, committed tackling, Rool became sent off six times for the duration of the 2006/07 season by myself!

Sergio Ramos

Sergio Ramos will plod down among the many most attention-grabbing defenders ever to play the game; he’ll moreover be remembered as regarded as one of essentially the most poorly disciplined.

The World Cup- and Euros-winning Spaniard got 26 red cards across his lengthy association with Staunch Madrid, alongside side four in his first marketing campaign at the Bernabeu.

Gerardo Bedoya

When it involves red cards, no one comes shut to former Colombia midfielder Gerardo Bedoya.

The former Deportivo Cali and Millonarios participant became sent off an out of this world 46 times for the duration of his profession – and he carried on racking up the reds after hanging up his boots in 2015 and entering into coaching.

Tom Hancock started freelancing for FourFourTwo in April 2019 and has moreover written for the Premier League and Opta Analyst, among others. He supports Wycombe Wanderers and has a comfortable space for Wealdstone. A self-confessed statto, he has been known to eye soccer with a spreadsheet (or several) birth…