Paraguayan Miguel Almirón is the first expelled by the “Vinicius Law”

The stellar Paraguayan Miguel Almirón He becomes the first World Cup player to be sent off by the “Vinicius Law”. During the game between Paraguay and Türkiye, The midfielder receives the red card at the biggest FIFA event taking place in North America for breaking the new regulations that prevent you from covering your mouth when speaking to an opponent.

The Salvadoran referee Iván Barton, who reviews the play with the VAR, shows him the red card in minute 45+2 of the first half, when applying the new rule that prohibits players from covering their mouths when speaking.

To avoid incidents such as the Argentine’s alleged racist insults Gianluca Prestianni to the Brazilian Vinicius In a Champions League match this season, FIFA announced at the end of April that from this World Cup onwards, players who made a gesture that had become very common on the playing field would be expelled.

“If a player covers his mouth and says something (…) it must be presumed that he has said something that he should not have said, otherwise he would not have had to cover his mouth,” justified FIFA president Gianni Infantino in an interview with Sky Sports. “If a player covers his mouth and says something (…) it must be presumed that he has said something that he should not have said, otherwise he would not have had to cover his mouth,” justified FIFA president Gianni Infantino in an interview with Sky Sports.

FIFA seeks to avoid any type of controversial situation, which resembles what happened between the Benfica and Real Madrid players, during 2026, when Prestianni apparently referred to the Brazilian forward as a “monkey.”

Although the television images did not confirm what the Benfica forward supposedly said and that he denied the racist insult, Prestianni was sanctioned with a six-match suspension (three of them suspended) by UEFA.