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.
That part doesn’t matter. If FIFA is getting a sitting leader of one of the host country governments to interfere with the outcome, it just signals how little the United States cares about the tournament or the sport. FIFA can totally come out and reverse the ruling and tell us why. The fact that they won’t and we are hearing that Trump is involved, will make the world have more distrust. We already denied visas to the referees, players and fans from many countries who wanted to come here for the tournament. This is blatantly cheating.
If the United States team wants to save face, they need to have Balogun sit out the game tomorrow.
No, it does matter. Two things can be wrong. But it is right that the player is not punished for a baseless call or for your other unrelated grievances that have nothing to do with what happened on the field.
An outside influence that has NOTHING to do with the game calling the head of the federation is bullshit. You can’t call him to get the call over turned why the fuck does the person who won the fifa peace prize get to do it. Let the coach or the player or the team manager get the call reversed.
Exactly. Trump corrupted the process by interfering. The fact that the decision should’ve been reversed became irrelevant the moment Trump decided to call in a favor from his buddy Infantino. It’s no longer about a bad call on the field.
yes and your mommy should call the principal and get your punishment revoked because you are a precious little petal
Shit calls get made all the time and people just live with it. The president of a shithole country should not interfere.
Ok. Now show it in video instead. It was an accident. The still frame looks bad, and it probably should have been called a yellow, but it didn’t meet the criteria for a red card.
If you think it still should be a red after all that, please explain why Messi doing the same thing on purpose wasn’t.
I agree. Messi should also have received a red. The fact that he did not even get a yellow was a terrible call.
it dose not matter if it was an accident… he could have injured the player… either they are in control or they are just flailing out there like any one of us could
the usa is a fucking joke… fifa is a fucking joke… soccer is a great sport and these two loser entities are just making everything they touch worthless…
Except it does matter. Reckless unintentional fouls are still a yellow card.
I’m not going to disagree about either the US (government) in general or FIFA in specific though.
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.
Unfortunately anything beyond this point is tainted. The only thing that can save this is the USA coach deliberately not fielding Balogun.
i.e. someone within trumps inner circle or trump himself had a bet placed on mondays game and called in a favour.
A lot of people saying he shouldn’t even have gotten a red card because he didn’t do it on purpose; it was a reckless tackle and the injury was potentially career ending. If a drunk driver kills a kid you don’t let them of with a slap on the wrist because it was an oopsie.
if a drunk driver kills a kid
Bit of a false equivalency. Two players trying to play the ball and walking into each other is objectively not a foul. Extremely disingenuous to call it a “tackle”. Making the choice to get behind the wheel while drunk is not the same thing at all
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.
I’m surprised he’d intervene for a black dude
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.
“independent panel”
“An person”? I didn’t read the article but I can’t take a publication seriously if they can’t get that right.
Reads like a shitty AI summary of an article with “an anonymous person” or something.
You have to literally beg AI not to fix mistakes like that. It is a “what word looks right next to this one” generator.
Cheating at solitaire. Sad shit
