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Football player gets yellow card for speaking Russian during Ukrainian league match
short by Anmol Sharma / on Wednesday, 20 August, 2025
Ukrainian referee Anastasia Romanyuk booked Seasters' player Irina Mayborodina during a women's league match against FC Kolos Kovalivka for speaking in Russian. The second-half yellow card was officially recorded as "unsportsmanlike behaviour". Romanyuk later explained that she had already warned the player and instructed her to speak Ukrainian before issuing the sanction.
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