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.
I dont even like soccer and this is fucking bullshit
I mean that red card was actually total bullshit.
Now show the Messi boot in someone’s calf during this tournament, and the half dozen other worse infringements that didn’t even result in a yellow card
Read my earlier response in this thread that already agrees that Messi should have also been shown a red card for his challenge. It was more intentional than this one.
Ok, but Messi didn’t get a red card. So we just get some players with different rules than others? Seems like refs are just making it up as they go, not a good look for the sport.
100%. I suspect there was “guidance” on protecting Messi given the marketing $$ and this intervention by Trump for the host country was unacceptable for an arguable valid red card.
Lol I doubt anybody reffing for FIFA needs “guidance” on that.
It’s all bullshit. Some Academy award level acting on those fields.
Not what experts say and more importantly not relevant.
This is know about corruption. The only honorable thing for the US to do now is forfait.
Most experts say it was very harsh and probably should not have been a Red.
I guess that’s the American fan experts then - but again, that’s irrelevant , this is not a excuse for corruption. US should forfait
Whether the red card was bullshit or not it irrelevant. Sports fans everywhere know that shit calls get made. The issue is that a sitting president called up his buddy who happens to be the president of FIFA and had it overturned. That is fucking insane.
How is it an issue??? You act like as if he didn’t fuk and kill little girls. This is nowhere close to issue, most dictators do this kind of things in football
Unfortunately anything beyond this point is tainted. The only thing that can save this is the USA coach deliberately not fielding Balogun.
The card was absurd in the first place, they absolutely should field Balogun.
FIFA is a comically corrupt organization; of course it’s going to do shit like this, if you don’t like it stop watching world cups and supporting FIFA. Otherwise you’re just whining the clown show didn’t perform the act you wanted it to.
Just because it was accidental doesn’t mean it wasn’t a red card.
Except for when Messi did worse… in fact wasn’t even a yellow card. Imagine defending FIFA’s clown show. Europeans really need to acknowledge: World Cup is an absolute joke, as long as FIFA runs it.
Whining about what’s fair is pathetic when you support such a shitty, corrupt organization.
Except a red needs to either have intent behind it or have very reckless play behind it. This was just one player being in the air while another player moves his leg into the space where the first player would be landing. That isn’t reckless. You can call it careless for leaving the ground and not having a clear space to land, but reckless needs to have more behind it.
we either have rules or we don’t. Otherwise, we will be second guessing ref calls with social media polling of fanboys.
FIFA doesn’t have rules. This isn’t even the first time it happened; Ronaldo this tournament and the 1962 world cups . Messi didn’t get carded for something worse, and Balogun did. The refs make it up as they go.
Europeans need to stop supporting FIFA… but they won’t because they’re completely fine with turning a blind eye for its corruption.
What Messi did was not worse.
You should look at the video, they both do something similar at the beginning, but they diverge sharply.
Messi should have been carded, but he didn’t do anything worse than balogun.
The part where balloons foot lands on the other players ankle is where it goes from a yellow to a red. It was reckless and could have seriously injured another player.
Messi didn’t even get a yellow card for it. They have different rules for different players and always have.
Hating on the Balogun reversal is peak mental gymnastics to try and justify FIFA is somehow legitimate in how they run their tournaments… They aren’t. Stop watching them. The Balogun is par for the course with FIFA, it’s not more outrageous than other shit they do, or don’t do. Seems like you’re just mad at who they benefitted this time, because there’s half a dozen other red-card qualified plays that didn’t result even in a yellow you could bring up from this tournament, too.
Just because his foot lands on an ankle does not make it go to a red. The other player put his foot in the path of Balogun’s. That moves it from reckless down to careless.
The number of downvotes you have is depressing. FIFA has been insanely corrupt since its inception, a fact that’s been well-documented. Anyone that chooses to grandstand over this, while continuing to watch the games, is ignorant at best.
Reminder of the sponsors of this tournament:
Edit: Budweiser and Hisense are also sponsorsAramco, Saudi Arabia’s state owned oil company. One of the big reasons why Iraq and Iran were attacked.
What’s between McDonald’s and Unilever?
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Well, this is the last time I buy any of their dairy products!
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Don’t throw it away. Give it away for free to someone who was going to buy one.
valvoline…that god for that lube.
The best thing that could happen is the team refuses to play. By continuing to play, you are part of the problem.
Or play, but really really bad.
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.
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.
So once again the world proves yet again whatever Trump touches turns to shit as the US loses 4 to fucking 1.
He’s gonna ask for a recount and accuse math of being communism
I wouldn’t be surprised for a second if he announced %100 tariffs for Belgian beer and chocolate now.
Yet again, everything he touches turns to absolute dogshit.
THAT’S CORRUPTION!
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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.
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?
Spain V Portugal was a masterful show of sportsmanship
He will call Infantino about those four unfair goals against the American team, too.
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.
