Los Angeles Galaxy veteran defender Martín Cáceres made an inexplicable mistake during his team’s Saturday contest against the Houston Dynamo.
While one of the game’s referees was in the VAR booth reviewing a sequence, Cáceres walked over to the booth and threw his hands up to contest the review. He also tapped the referee on the shoulder, which is a huge no-no.
As you well know, professional athletes of any sport are absolutely barred at any point from interfering with an official review. The referee wasn’t having Cáceres interfering, so he handed the defender his second yellow card and a red card.
The penalty put Los Angeles down to 10 men for the rest of the match while down a goal to Houston.
The Galaxy would lose to the Dynamo 3-0, only making Cáceres’ bizarre blunder that much harder to swallow.
Galaxy are fully a meme team. It's official. pic.twitter.com/C3Uxz8HmrA
— Matthew Doyle (@MattDoyle76) April 9, 2023
It’s just not common to see a player like Cáceres just forget the basic rules of the game after spending years playing in the top leagues in soccer and for the Uruguay national team.
The Galaxy brings a veteran player like Cáceres over to set a tone on the pitch and in the locker room. Neither happened on Saturday as trying to dispute an officiating review while it was happening led to Cáceres earning one of the more ridiculous red cards you’re likely to see a player get.