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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.

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[–] JenitalJouster@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

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!!

Edit: LOOOOOLLL GET FUCKED AMERIKKKA daddy trump literally cheated for them and they still lost what a bunch of clowns

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

This is hardly a new precedent. This is just fifa being fifa.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

please pirate all your world cup games!!

Way ahead of you there.

[–] 123@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I learned that IPTV in some countries is very popular for live feeds when my shitty over the air antenna was having issues and I didn't want to bother subscribing to some crappy app trial for a game or two. Now I know that PBS even broadcasts some of their channels as IPTV over the internet and the TV signal just points it at the stream's URL. Also, ATSC 3.0 is a fiasco for over the air TV, I think that will be the end of broadcast TV. It was fun while it lasted for live events.