<P> This is a list of all red cards shown during FIFA World Cups; that is, the occasions when a player has been expelled from the game in a football World Cup Finals match (not including qualifying matches). As FIFA is the governing body of football, official red cards are only noted when FIFA recognised that a player was expelled or sent off in a match . </P> <P> This list includes all dismissals since the first FIFA World Cup in 1930 . The use of red and yellow cards to indicate dismissals and cautions is a more recent invention, having been introduced at the 1970 tournament . </P> <Ul> <Li> Plácido Galindo was the first player to be sent off in a World Cup match, playing for Peru on 14 July 1930 against Romania . </Li> <Li> Uruguay's José Batista received the quickest red card when he was sent off in the first minute in 1986 for bringing down Gordon Strachan in a game against Scotland . </Li> <Li> Five players have been sent off in the final . Argentina's Pedro Monzón was the first in 1990 and was quickly followed by teammate Gustavo Dezotti in the same match . Marcel Desailly, playing for France in 1998, was the first player to be sent off from the winning team in the final . </Li> <Li> Argentina's Claudio Caniggia became the first person to be sent off from the substitute's bench, after he swore at the referee in a game against Sweden in 2002 . </Li> <Li> The most players sent off on one day occurred on 18 June 1998 when five players received a red card across two different first round matches . </Li> <Li> The 2006 tournament had the highest amount of red cards; a total of 27 players were sent off . </Li> <Li> Rigobert Song became the first player to receive two red cards - one in 1994 and one in 1998 . Zinedine Zidane replicated this in 1998 and 2006 . </Li> <Li> Three South American countries lead the list of most red cards for a national team with Brazil having 11 players dismissed . Argentina have had 10 players sent off, and Uruguay 9 players . </Li> <Li> The single World Cup match with the greatest number of red cards was the Portugal - Netherlands game in the second round of the 2006 World Cup, this match also known as the "Battle of Nuremberg". 4 players, 2 from each team, were sent off; overall referee Valentin Ivanov dished out 16 yellow cards and 4 red cards, the greatest number of players booked and sent off in any one match . </Li> <Li> The physical red card was introduced in 1970, but nobody was sent off . Carlos Caszely of Chile became the first person to receive a red card, after his second yellow card against West Germany in 1974, for bringing down Berti Vogts . Chile lost 1 - 0 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Plácido Galindo was the first player to be sent off in a World Cup match, playing for Peru on 14 July 1930 against Romania . </Li>

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