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The Folarin Balogun red card
https://easysportz.com/2026/07/trump-white-house-add-political-fire-to-balogun-red-card-reversal/
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He & FIFA have basically invalidated every red card in the tournament.
If it doesnt stick for the USA it shouldnt stick for anyone else.
World football really needs to move away from FIFA as an organisation.
They absolutely should, but they won’t because Europe has no backbone when it comes to FIFA.
I hope Belgium teaches US a lesson ;)
Most likely the real story is that money changed hands. These old corrupt bastards aren't that complicated, even though they are secretive.
The way things are done nowadays, the payment is done later with highly paid "opportunities" offered to the people who did him that "favor".
That's how politicians who do favors to the right people end up nominated to highly paid political positions or get non-executive board memberships, gold plated consulting gigs or millionaire "speech circuit" gigs in companies of a domain they have no expertise at all in but whose top companies they helped a lot.
During your time holding decision maker power you make "friends" with your executive, legislative or legal decision of people who are either very wealthy or hold power to nominate people to very lucrative sinecures and later they "reciprocate that friendship". This by the way also applies inside the Private sector - for example with Fund Managers buying a lot of services from some specific Investment Banks and later, by an amazing coincidence, ending up a Traders in said banks.
As for the public sector, all you have to do is look at the sources of income after they left of plenty of ex-POTUS or ex-EU Commission members and compare it which who they favored whilst in power.
So when my company holds a "con" and invites all kinds of useless speakers to babble for a few minutes, is that all just a scam that they're running to pay each other.
So the most corrupt president America has ever seen is "in" with the most corrupt organization that the sports world has ever seen? Shocking.
Looks like they are showing the dirty cheats something. Lets hope it lasts
The real irony, which I'm sure is lost on Trump, is that Balogun is only able to play for the US due to his birthright citizenship, something the Trump administration is actively trying to get rid of.
Balogun played for England until 2023.
"Birthright" is such a terrible term for that way of obtaining citizenship.
Isn't it also a "birth right" to get citizenship based on the citizenships of the parents who gave birth to you?
Jus soli is "birthright", jus sanguinis is also "birthright". It's only naturalization that is a way to get citizenship that isn't a result of your birth.
Yeah, but he has "gun" in his name, so he's definitely American. /s
I read he also tried to play for Nigeria before joining the US team.
What a shitty thing to do to the U.S. team. Now, there's no way that they can have a clean victory, if they win. It's tainted with the smell of corruption.
I'm forseeing boos the next time the US team gets on the field, no fan present will accept this.
The only way to salvage this is to keep Balogun on the bench.
A concept completely lost on Trump.
A concept normal to Trump
Trump's business model y'all have you been in a cave
The US should have no path to victory.
That they made it this far has everything to do with biased picks for the initial rounds.
Canada, US and Mexico were all all but guaranteed to get into the round of 32, the US was functionally guaranteed to get into the round of 16.
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That’s a good point actually. I guess they could still do the honorable thing and not use that player
They won't because the US Soccer Federation would not dare humiliate Trump after he's so publicly stated about the red card being overturned.
This is what happens when you give in to dictators.
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If Europe had any balls we would just go home and start a new organisation to replace the corrupt FIFA.
UEFA is already a thing.
I don’t mean a European organisation. I mean an international one that excludes the USA
Ah, that. Yeah, I understand the sentiment, but of course that's never going to happen. It's not as if any of it is actually about the game for those people, anyway.
Living in a football-crazy country (back during the time of the Fascist dictatorship here, Football used to be one of the methods the Fascists purposefully used to distract the masses) and having lived in other countries in Europe some of which almost as football crazy (like the UK), IMHO football fans are some of the most stupid, most serville people around - tribalist sheeple whose idea of pushing back is to fight with tribalist sheeple who wear a differently colored shirt and whose understanding of "power" in that sport starts and ends at being a game referee.
Even otherwise mildly intelligent people seem to lose 50 IQ points when it comes to "their" team or "their" national team.
So I expect that nothing at all is going to happen.
PS: And I mean Football in the European sense, not the American sense.
I was deadass joking with a coworker that Trump would be the kind of person to call FIFA and bitch about a red card, but neither of us thought he would actually do it. I should know by now.
When the USA loses in the round of 16 to Belgium, Trump will call Infantino and tell him to change the score.
As if FIFA couldn't get any more disgusting...
According to reports, the White House made a direct call to FIFA asking president Gianni Infantino to review Balogun’s red card before the United States’ Round of 16 match against Belgium. FIFA later suspended Balogun’s automatic one-match ban under Article 27, making him eligible to play.
Article 66.4 of the same disciplinary code: “A sending-off automatically incurs suspension from the subsequent match. The FIFA judicial bodies may impose additional match suspensions and other disciplinary measures.”
They already ratfucked Iran by making them travel 12 hours by bus from Tijuana to Seattle and back on match day, and by cancelling a winning goal for a supposed offside. Dallas police attacked the Egyptian coach in the airport. This tournament has been the nail in the coffin of FIFA. This is just blatant hyper corruption, sort of a US style UFC-isation of football that the rest of the world will have a difficult time to digest.
FIFA has always been corrupt, from displacement and human trafficking to this. Same as Olympics, NFL, NBA, boxing, WWF, dogfighting, MMA, ad infinitum. People should wake up. Sports aren't wrong, commodification is messed all the way up.
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I mean, that criminal investigation didn’t go away just for the made up FIFA peace prize. This was inevitable.
I cannot wait for this absolute piece of human garbage to die.
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