Amatuer banned for 50 years

An amateur footballer from Switzerland received
a 50-year ban for kicking the ball in the face of
the referee and then squirting him with water.
Futebol Clube defender Ricardo Ferreira, who
had been previously banned for 45 games for
assaulting the rival players, expressed his
shock saying he did not expect the punishment
would be so harsh. The 28-year-old said:
“I had expected one or two years maximum. But
50 years? Football’s my life.”
The fourth-tier league’s lawyer Robert Breiter
explained that such cases unfortunately happen
often in their league adding that players like
Ferreira are not welcome.