Colombia win Fair Play Award

[Scrumpet]

Poor Neymar must be spinning in his grave.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

 

[Wonder Pigeon]

It was a bit of a dirty World Cup in general to be honest.

 

[fontaine]

Might as well give Suarez Fair Play trophy

 

[Sonny1972]

It was a bit of a dirty World Cup in general to be honest.

Seriously ?? For me especially the south american teams behaved very well .

 

[oriole]

Any specific reason why colombia won it or did they win some statistic on committed fouls?

 

[Scrumpet]

Any specific reason why colombia won it or did they win some statistic on committed fouls?

Not entirely sure. FIFA say this:

The FIFA Fair Play Award will go to the team with the tournament’s best disciplinary record. Only teams that reach the knockout phase are eligible.

I thought it was given to whoever had the lowest yellow card per game ratio but both Germany and Switzerland had a lower one than Colombia. I think there must be some subjective element in deciding who gets it.

 

[Xantos]

Any specific reason why colombia won it or did they win some statistic on committed fouls?

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2014/m=7/news=messi-heralded-as-brazil-2014-s-best-2404615.html

The Group C winners who reached the quarter-finals were given this award, not only for collecting just five yellow cards in their five matches at Brazil 2014, but for scoring highly in the criteria set by FIFA’s Technical Study Group, which includes positive play, respect towards the opponent and match officials, as well as the behaviour of their team officials and supporters.

 

[Wonder Pigeon]

Seriously ?? For me especially the south american teams behaved very well .

Kramer getting taken out yesterday, the foulfest that was Brazil vs Colombia and Suarez's oral fixation rearing its hungry head again count as well behaved?

There were a lot of very bad tackles in the tournament that went unpunished. Matuidi broke a fella's leg and got away scot free.

 

[Inigo]

Good choice imo. Not their fault what Brazil (and the ref) turned that match into and looking at the criteria I think they deserve it.

 

[hamad138]

Look at germany,they are the fairest team.