So… after the ridiculous peace prize trump is now even forcing FIFA to manipulate the game in their favour.
If Europe had any balls we would just go home and start a new organisation to replace the corrupt FIFA. We should have never even accepted to play in trumpistan
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Please link to the original source or we’ll have to remove it.
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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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Thanks for fixing it!
As if FIFA couldn’t get any more disgusting…
I mean, that criminal investigation didn’t go away just for the made up FIFA peace prize. This was inevitable.
FIFA, one of the most corrupt groups on the planet? I am shocked!
We all know that, but I think this must be the most public and simple corruption ever
2015 would like a word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case
That’s not public … until it got discovered
Then this isn’t public either. There is no proof, no legal investigation, only media accusation. This is like saying the 2010 scandal wasn’t public because the bribes weren’t proven until a year later.
What do you mean no proof? Trump already admitted it
Source?
Edit: Found it. Sky News where Trump is bragging and said Biden was sleeping. If FIFA doesn’t admit it, we’re still pretty much in the same boat as all the others.
The other catch with this one is it was a bad call, and the review board might have been reversing it regardless of Trump’s call. Oh well.
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.
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.
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.
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 remember being pleased when we got rid of Blatter
I guess I thought he was the bottom of the barrel
Guess this barrel is all bottom.
FIFA is made up of bottom-quality officials all the way down.
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LOL: look at his statement on the situation https://xcancel.com/SeppBlatter/status/2074022159916130658
When even a corrupt fuck is calling them out…
When the USA loses in the round of 16 to Belgium, Trump will call Infantino and tell him to change the score.
I cannot wait for this absolute piece of human garbage to die.
I had heard some initial reports that it was suspended due to the way it being reviewed was against the rules. Something about using slow-mo before calling for the review or something. I had hoped that was the case, because this was the alternative. My already extreme disgust for FIFA somehow got way worse.
Bends the knee? Hell, they’d open wide enough for him to go balls deep if he just asked. They’d give the rustiest of trombones…the reachiest of reach arounds. We haven’t even talked about the mahogany canoes…
If there was a world championship of corruption, FIFA and Trump would be top contenders, together with the IOC.
I hope Belgium teaches US a lesson ;)
