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.
Go back and reread the post where everyone is pointing out the fact that a sitting world leader called into FIFA to get a foul overturned.
Go back and read up what a shitty organization FIFA is and has been for decades and reexamine why you’re still so invested in, and giving them your money and attention.
It’s quite pathetic, actually.
Brother the government shouldn’t be able to have a saying or power over stuff like this, what part of that don’t you understand?
The point is that oligarchs have been manipulating FIFA for decades and this is more of the same.
How do you think Saudi Arabia got the 2034 cup?
Same with the previous one in Qatar, and Russia and pretty much all the other cups for the last few decades.
Imagine being so invested in a clownishly corrupt organization and then being surprised when they perform a clownishly corrupt action.
Stop watching FIFA games. Stop supporting them. It’s that simple. Everything else is whining.
I don’t watch FIFA so I don’t give a shit. I know that they’re corrupt as fuck, but that doesn’t change the fact that a government leader called in a favor to get a player suspension delayed for a game that doesn’t matter in the world cup.
Has this ever happened before? Should we let it slide and let more world leaders personally determine the outcome of any sports game?