00:00Yellow card is a warning, right? And when you want to kick out someone.
00:07Red card, I didn't know what the hell a red card was. When I found out, I said, you gotta
00:10be kidding.
00:11That's despite Trump having physically held a red card before.
00:14But before 1970, players didn't know about red or yellow cards either.
00:19So how did football, or soccer, get its most famous punishment?
00:23Before cards, referees faced what could be considered a total nightmare.
00:26If a player didn't speak their language, they couldn't understand that they were sent off.
00:31Surprisingly, the solution came from the roads we drive on.
00:34English referee Ken Aston saw a traffic light and thought, yellow means warning, red means stop.
00:39So cards debuted at the 1970 World Cup, but the first physical red card wasn't actually shown until 1974.
00:46When referee Doan Babajan sent off Chile's Carlos Casley in West Germany.
00:51Proof that a simple traffic stop changed football forever, helping overcome one of the biggest language barriers in the game.
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