Even with Paraguay securing a historic penalty shoot-out win over Germany in the last 32 of the World Cup, Chinese referee Ma Ning still managed to catch the attention of social media users as the fourth official of the match on Monday.<\/p>\n
Officiating in his second World Cup after making his debut in Qatar four years ago, Ma was seen telling referee Jalal Jayed of Morocco to issue a pair of yellow cards towards the end of the first-half of extra time.<\/p>\n
Jayed booked both managers, Julian Nagelsmann of Germany and Gustavo Alfaro of Paraguay. Five yellow cards were handed out during extra-time in what was a tense and physical game.<\/p>\n
Chinese social media users called Ma the \u201ctrue card master\u201d after the moment went viral on Weibo.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving no cards in his hand but there are cards in his mind, that\u2019s impressive,\u201d one commenter said.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust imagine how fulfilling it would be if you worked so hard that you could showcase your skills on a global stage,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even with Paraguay securing a historic penalty shoot-out win over Germany in the last 32 of the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,512,4690,13201,596,2592,5717,42230,8507,941,40649,340801,24604,21839,7104,16260,5813,85],"class_list":["post-769821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-ghana","tag-gillette-stadium","tag-japan","tag-liaoning","tag-ma-ning","tag-morocco","tag-norway","tag-paraguay","tag-qatar","tag-south-korea","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}