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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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[–] derAbsender@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't be surprised if it's even "independent" "panel" - neither independent nor a panel.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I kind of want to see the US win the world cup thanks to interferences like this from pedohitler. I've been saying that the FIFA is a corrupt organisation for a while and everyone has dismissed it by saying that it's not true. Well, here you have proof, now what?

Let's hope we see more of this in the next games; this world cup was a farce from the beginning, so cheating is just something that was bound to happen.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

As an American who has cheered his whole life for the American team and has hoped they would eventually get good enough to win the World Cup, this would make me so sad. However, as an adult who hates how corrupt FIFA is and how disgusting Trump is, I actually do want to see it. I want this World Cup to have the biggest, brightest, most obnoxious asterisk next to it. I want everyone to know how awful this one was. In previous World Cups, the refs have bent over backward to screw over the US, because most of the world hates the US. Now I want the whole world to blow up FIFA and start fresh for having the temerity to force the US to win.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Cheating at solitaire. Sad shit

[–] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“An person”? I didn’t read the article but I can’t take a publication seriously if they can’t get that right.

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reads like a shitty AI summary of an article with “an anonymous person” or something.

[–] TheOctonaut@piefed.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have to literally beg AI not to fix mistakes like that. It is a "what word looks right next to this one" generator.

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

Likely whoever was pretending to write it did a quick find and delete to get rid of all instances of "anonymous" before posting.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

https://rebootfifa.com/ please share and stop posting non-sense drama.

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