David Beckham turned the primary England participant to ever be despatched off twice on today again in 2005, after receiving a crimson card in opposition to Austria in a World Cup qualifier.
The sending-off was after he was given two yellow playing cards in a brief house of time across the 57th-minute mark. They got for fouls on the identical participant, Andreas Ibertsberger.
England received the sport 1-0 due to a penalty from Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard. The victory meant that they certified for the next yr’s World Cup after Holland beat the Czech Republic later that night.
Beckham’s first crimson card for England was one of the vital well-known moments within the historical past of the English nationwide crew. It occurred within the Second Spherical match in opposition to Argentina on the 1998 World Cup. That point it was a straight crimson card for a petulant kick at Argentine Diego Simeone and was widely-regarded because the defining second in his profession.
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