Referee Marco di Bello shows the red card to Lazio's Matteo Guendouzi, background right, and the yellow card to AC Milan's Christian Pulisic during the Italian Serie A soccer match between Lazio and Milan at Rome's Olympic stadium, Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
ROME (AP) — In a heated Serie A home match on Friday, Lazio was defeated 1-0 by AC Milan, with three players being sent off.
Red cards were given to Matteo Guendouzi, Adam Marušić, and Luca Pellegrini.
In addition to coach Maurizio Sarri, four more Lazio players were punished for altercations with the referees. On a sour evening, five AC Milan players received yellow cards.
After 57 minutes, with the score at 0-0, Pellegrini was substituted, starting a brief altercation.
With two minutes remained, Noah Okafor scored, and the Lazio players were covered in a red mist.
In the last moments, Guendouzi and Marušić were substituted, and players from both teams faced off against each other.
It infuriated Lazio in the first half.According to a U.K. parliament report released on Tuesday, there is a surge in anterior cruciate ligament injuries in women’s soccer, which emphasizes “systemic gender inequality in sports.”
There is a “lack of understanding of the health and physiological needs of women and girls across sport,” according to the Women and Equalities Committee.
It identified the dearth of footwear made especially for female soccer players as a cause for worry in its study, “Health barriers for girls and women in sport,” and recommended that the government form a task group to address the problem.
The fact that the first football boot ever created was created around gender discrimination and sexism in the sports industry is indicative of these issues.Sam Kerr, a striker for Chelsea and Australia, had ACL injury in January. ACL injuries have also been experienced by Beth Mead, Leah Williamson, and Alexia Putellas, three more elite athletes.
According to the committee, sports and exercise research was “overwhelmingly” done by males, and the sports science community has responded in a “disparate and slow” manner.Without a doubt, a speedier, more comprehensive, and better-coordinated reaction would have been given to a health situation of comparable scope impacting elite male football players.
Increased expectations in women’s sports have led to a “notable” increase in injuries, particularly ACL damage, according to a report released by the international players’ association FIFPRO last year.
It said that lower limb injuries were more common among athletes who participated in competitions and traveled often for their club and national teams.
Concerns about sportswear have been brought up in the Women and Equalities Committee report, and companies are being urged to join a task group aimed at assisting in enhancing players’ physical well-being.
“While British women’s football players have achieved considerable success at the club and national levels, they have done so while donning
