Houston Dynamo megastar Hector Herrera was once despatched off with a straight-red card all the way through the group’s Sunday playoff fit towards the Seattle Sounders, about half-hour prior to the Dynamo’s season ended with a 7-6 loss on a penalty shootout.
Enjoying in Sport 2 of a three-game order, and having already misplaced the primary contest, the Dynamo have been feeling the drive when Herrera was once whistled for a bad and passed a yellow card within the sixty fifth slight. Now not unusually, he disagreed with referee Armando Villarreal’s determination to squander the whistle and made that sunlit prior to strolling era him.
However then Herrera walked era Villarreal, he became round and spit on the referee.
I’m sorry, Hector Herrera spit on the *referee* to get despatched off in a must-win house playoff contest?
Inexcusable conduct. Completely surprising from the Houston Dynamo’s megastar. pic.twitter.com/9uzyQRK5Id
— Joseph Lowery (@joeclowery) November 4, 2024
The incident was at VAR evaluation, all the way through which Villarreal in reality watched Herrera spit at him, after Villarreal issued Herrera a straight-red card that ended the Mexican football megastar’s taking part in year within the contest, and in the end the season.
With the Dynamo’s 2024 season at an finish, Herrera should provide any self-discipline at the beginning of the 2025 season. There was once a related spitting incident in MLS in October, and the perpetrator if so, Brayan Vera of Actual Salt Pond, was fined and suspended two additional games on supremacy of the automated one-game suspense for a crimson card.
If MLS comes to a decision to factor the similar self-discipline to Herrera, he would provide that three-game suspense upcoming month, without reference to whether or not he’s nonetheless at the Dynamo — his contract is up at the end of 2024 however Houston has an choice on him for 2025 — or on any other group.
