The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) on Sunday called on FIFA to rescind a yellow card ban set to keep skipper Thiago Silva out of Tuesday’s World Cup semi-final against Germany.

The organization said it was urging FIFA’s disciplinary commission “to annul the yellow card unjustly shown” to Silva in their quarter-final win over Colombia.

The CBF also demanded football’s governing body investigate the “violent challenge” of Colombia’s Juan Camilo Zuniga, whose knee-in-the-back tackle on Neymar saw Brazil’s starlet stretched off with a fractured vertebrae.

The aerial challenge ended Neymar’s participation in the tournament, dealing a blow to the hosts’ chances of seeing off the Germans, while Silva’s booking left him suspended and Brazil shorn of a second key player. Continue Below:

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