President Trump called FIFA President Gianni Infantino to discuss the red card given to Team USA’s Folarin Balogun during Wednesday night’s game against Bosnia and Herzegovina, an person familiar with the conversation told The Hill. Trump later cheered the reversal, calling it an “injustice.”
FIFA said its independent panel overturned the red card suspension for Monday’s game.
THAT’S CORRUPTION!
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I have get rid of my Lenovo laptop
What’s between McDonald’s and Unilever?
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valvoline…that god for that lube.
Really funny seeing people sob over the integrity of the sport as if FIFA isn’t actively buying votes to line their pockets and hosting tournaments to sports-wash theocratic slave states (USA included).
The card system never made sense for international knockout play anyway because one ref with a grudge can, more or less, unilaterally eject a team from the tournament. Almost nobody has the depth to deal with a red card.
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Bad calls are part of every sport. It happens. Rules are rules, and if the there is no official instant replay or challenge procedure then the call stands. Rules are fucking rules.
This is no longer about a bad call. It’s about integrity.
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the red card was def harsh don’t get me wrong. balogun clearly didn’t mean to do that, but it’s understandable to preserve a level of safety in the game. you have FIFA saying at first that the FA will not rescind the red card given to balogun, then suddenly the president himself calls infantino and now the red card is suspended? come on. had this happened to belgium there would be uproar from so many americans. it is 1)insanely corrupt and 2) sets a very bad precedent cause now any country can just ask to get their bookings for players reversed. this is getting long but anyways please pirate all your world cup games!!
This is hardly a new precedent. This is just fifa being fifa.
please pirate all your world cup games!!
Way ahead of you there.
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Funny. The American ambassador in Belgium has claimed trump didn’t and wouldn’t ever do something like that
This time excepted, of course
To be fair, Trump probably didn’t even make the call himself. He just likes taking credit for things.
Well, the 2026 world cup is officially as enshittified as Don’s diaper. I had a bad feeling at “hydration breaks”.
the last world cup worth a shit was back in 2014, i havent watched a single game of international soccer since and have zero regrets
If you’ve not watched any games since 2014 how do you know they’re all bad?
I’m conflicted. Did he try to get it overturned? Or is he trying to get credit for it? I can see him doing both. Either way the refs have been shit in almost every game.
Unclear what Donny specifically tried to do, other than generally getting the player available for the next game. They didn’t overturn the Red or say there was a VAR protocol error, both of which would have been legitimate excuses that FIFA chose not to use.
Politics and sports shouldn’t be mixed
FIFA is not a sport. It’s a business. A very corrupt business that plays a sport for a couple hours every so often.
Sports have always been political. Look back at history to see states banning everything besides horse riding and archery for military reasons. Look at the Nika riots burning half of Constantinople. Look at the class politics of early professional teams.
“Sports shouldn’t be political” is a modern political invention to insulate leisure-as-distraction from the burning and looting going on all around us.
Politicians all show up to these events.
On one hand… I get it. On the other hand, massive protests against touring South African sides during apartheid helped bolster public understanding and support for bringing it down.
Like, should Russia and Israel be allowed to play?
The man’s a crook. FIFA knows that ignoring him would potentially cause a nasty reaction and has disgustingly been compliant.
Birds of a feather, and all that. I know Sepp Blatter has been taken out, but I haven’t had any indication that FIFA has been cleaned up.
I have to say, this is so strangely captivating, I can’t stop looking at it honestly! Weirdly in sync between the two very different approaches! I have zero idea why this is so enthralling but I couldn’t just scroll away without explicitly voicing my confused enjoyment, so peculiar
It’s prob in sync because they’re both doing it in time to a song or a chant
I think its simply empathy, both are looking like they have a fun time and we want to join them.
Seems like they’re in front of a bunch of kids telling a story or singing a song, or something?
Yep. Specifically a variation/verse on/of “The Wheels on the Bus,” though I didn’t watch enough of the full video to find out why there seems to be a baby on the bus?
Oh of course, the baby on the bus goes wah wah wah, wah wah wah. 😆👍
My nephew does that when dancing to Wheels on the Bus at the part with the babies on the bus. He’s probably seen this video
I will exitedly open up a nice Belgian beer if they can make Trump angry this Tuesday.
I will excitedly open up a nice Belgian beer, regardless of the results of the match. It’s just a solid decision.
Might I suggest an ABT 12 or Pavel Kwak?
