++Sky News++ captured his words, as he explained: “”Yes, I asked for a review by FIFA. I spoke to a man [Infantino] who is highly respected. I’m the one who got them to do it, not Biden. Biden was asleep.”
He went and did exactly what he always goes and does: he made the thing about himself.
As an American Tottenham fan I am over the moon with how Poch has transformed Team USA and I was so ready to watch them beat Belgium without one of their best players.
Now it just looks stupid, like no one believes they could do it without this one guy. On top of the optics of it now Belgium has an extra reason to fight, it will absolutly light a fire under them. Was it a red card? No, it should have been a yellow but that’s the game. You put the chip on your shoulder and go out there and fuck shit up. Now Belgium has the chip.
Just another example of the whining bitch culture the US has become under trump, the biggest thin skinned bitch of them all.
Norway is on form and are going to give England a great run and France are going to be hard to beat. People have been dogging this WC but honestly its been entertaining. The officiating has been half trash but the games have mostly been lit and the upsets have been great.
It was a red. It was dangerous and could have broken his ankle, even if he didn’t intend it.
Belgium are crap, but would have comfortably beaten USA.
No one believes you can do it without that one guy before this. He’s been carrying you.
They shouldn’t have fucked with the ruling at all, but lmao at “dangerous”
It could only possibly be considered dangerous if you thought he intentionally stepped on Muharemović’s ankle. Straight reds are typically reserved for aggressive plays that are either clearly malicious or willfully reckless.
Balogun was playing the ball without looking where he was stepping - at worst it should have been a yellow. Careless? Definitely. Dangerous? Lmao, I guess taking a reaching step is dangerous now
But thats really not the problem anymore - the league overriding the decision reaks of corruption and does a disservice to everyone involved, including the USA team.
You obviously don’t know enough about “soccer”. You been listening to your presidents definitions?
A red can be given for serious foul play.
“Serious foul play is defined as “a tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent or uses excessive force or brutality.””
It fits the definition. Even with FIFA suspended the sentence they didn’t overturn it.
Quansah got a red card for England despite playing for and winning the ball. Intent is not the key ingredient of a red card.
Either way, Belgium’s hammered the USA even with Balogun. Tis a lol.
Either way, Belgium’s hammered the USA even with Balogun. Tis a lol.
No question - they shouldn’t have even made it that far
A red can be given for serious foul play.
The ref is intentionally given leeway to make whatever calls necessary to keep control over the game (which is why the reversal is so damaging to the tournament broadly). He had every right to send Balogun off, I just dont think it’s was a good one.
Quansah got a red card for England despite playing for and winning the ball
A bunch of reasons why this comparison is bullshit:
- Quansah went into a sliding tackle against a player in control of the play, not after a 50/50 challenge
- despite there not being intent, sliding tackles are held to higher scrutiny because they’re dangerous even when done correctly
- The tackle was unnecessarily aggressive. Quansah could have stayed on his feet and defended without risking a tackle
You obviously don’t know enough about “soccer”. You been listening to your presidents definitions?
I love how catty this is
A ref is given leeway, they choose whether to exercise or not and he didn’t provide any leeway or special favour. He made a call and refs decision stands.
It still amazes me that you don’t see how dangerous Balogun’s challenge was. Did you not see the dude’s ankle? Could have got broken. Quansah didn’t even touch the guy with studs and won the ball. It was still a red. Both without intent, both deemed dangerous. One almost snapped a players ankle.
Yes, that last bit was catty, but the weird tribal defending of it it with weird justifications seemed to fit in with how Trumpy was arguing. Not necessarily within the rules of the game or historical precedents.
It still amazes me that you don’t see how dangerous Balogun’s challenge was. Did you not see the dude’s ankle? Could have got broken
I don’t think we’re using ‘dangerous’ in the same way here. I’m saying there is no reasonable expectation that Balogun’s play could have resulted in a serious injury, regardless of what injury almost did occur. Just because Muharemovic’s ankle almost did get broken, doesn’t mean that was due to any risky, aggressive, or malicious move made by Balogun to begin with. That the foul didn’t even initially merit a yellowcard at the time points to the same conclusion.
When I was taught to be a referee (granted, that was 15 years ago), they urged us not to issue red cards unless the play itself was uniquely dangerous, where that if another player committed the same foul there would be the same high risk of injury. The two other remedies for keeping this type of play in-check are more reasonable and less likely to cause chaotic discontent from the bench, and sending the player off doesn’t make anyone else on the field any safer.
Your job as referee isn’t to doll out justice or retribution for harm committed on the field, it’s to keep the players safe and the game fair to the extent reasonable.
Quansah didn’t even touch the guy with studs and won the ball.
That’s not the point - he made a needlessly aggressive tackle against an attacker that wasn’t an immediate threat on goal, and hit Gallardo midway up the shin with studs up. If someone else on the field made a similarly needless and dangerous tackle, the risk of serious injury would be just as high. It could have just as easily been a yellow card, but what made the tackle worse was that it was done without any apparent strategic advantage over staying on his feet, which made it seem like he did it in part because there was a risk of harm.
If the ref didn’t take action, it was likely that the two would continue escalating their challenges until someone did get injured
I agree with. I just want to say you’re delusional to think the US could beat Belgium with or without this player.
We will see.
I wouldn’t have down voted you last night when I first read this, but will HAPPILY upvote you this morning
LOL americans need to STFU about sports they don’t understand
Believing the World Cup is actually real and not just the global stage version of pro wrestling is incredible to me. Theres nothing to “understand”
We lost so it’s fake and we don’t care about football anyway.
americans are petty sore losers, petty as alwaysBrother all big sports are theater & scripted, not just football.
I bet you believe all those players holding their legs on the ground from being tapped begging for a card are actually hurt and not acting.
yes that’s tooootally the same as having all games rigged.
His references are out of control. I have to admit it’s pretty sweet that da mayor is a proficient footie shitposter.
Well the ownership class of the US is a bunch of Karens. We know this.
And we know FIFA is corrupt AF, even more than the NFL.
What’s vulgar about it now is that it’s done without a lick of subtlety or tact. The corruption is out in the open. They’re doing the Qu’ils mangent de la brioche more plainly and more often than was ever done in France.
( Technical history fact: Marie Antoinette never said it, but the rumor was viciously spread and sped her way to the guillotine. The historic queen was classically trained and actually had tact. The French aristocracy, however, did not.)
We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch
Anyone who knew someone like Trump would ruin a well-oiled grift machine.
This sorry excuse for a human being has less planning skills than a pool of piranhas.
He could have called Infantino, have the suspension reversed and brushed away tbe journalist’s question with a joke, but he’s even worse than Berlusconi.
Biden was asleep
This is a fucking weird chirp coming from someone constantly falling asleep on camera.
The projection never ends.
I’m convinced that projection is just like the basest form of human psychology. They literally just cannot stop themselves. It’s fascinating.
It’s like projection and empathy are two sides of the same coin, and you end up with one or the other.
Either you are able to put yourself in other people’s shoes. Or you’re so inherently narcissistic (and lacking in empathy) that you subconsciously assume that everyone must be doing what you’re doing.
RENT. FREE.
And, like, how the heck is it Joe Biden’s job to corruptly influence FIFA officials?
Biden derangement syndrome? He’s complaining a past president didn’t do anything for a current event
Pretty sure it means he was asleep and someone woke him up to bribe or pressure the official
Really takes the fun out of the tournament.
Yeah kinda makes me want us to lose
Ive gotten all the upsets I tuned in for so ill be sure to watch
I wanna see the us lose so the orange kid-fuckers lose his goddamn and go off on dementia rants again… immediately after his vanity state fair was a collosal failure
Over the past few weeks I was thinking kind of the same thing. On one hand, I like watching world cup soccer and seeing the US men’s team do well for the first time in a long time is really great and I would be juiced to see them make it to the final.
On the other hand, it had to happen while we have one of the worst pieces of shit to ever occupy the white house, and he would somehow make their historic achievement about himself in some way and taint it forever, so I kind of want them to lose before that happens.
Either way it’s a win-win. I’ll be watching their games on a pirate stream so FIFA can’t earn any money off me taking a casual interest in the games this year.
There is no way on God’s green earth are USA making it to the final without every ref being bought up. Even then, Mbappe and France will pit 3 or 4 past USA even with a crooked ref. He’d have to disallow all of them and it he completely obvious.
Yeah I mean you’re probably right. I don’t know much about the game to be able to tell who the clear favorites are. It just seems to be my luck that if I root against something the universe has a way of twisting that energy against me.
Well have i got good news for you lol
We looked like dogshit
Now we get to see the incoming ramblings!
That’s not a parody quote, it’s the actual quote in the Article, straight from the Horse’s ass.
Thanks for the clarification, one could think this came from the onion. /jk
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Yeah let’s just bandy about slurs, that’s a surefire way to prove you’re morally superior to someone
Man they really want the Wikipedia entry for US Men’s National Team results section to have an asterisk by the number 2026, don’t they
They are well ahead of you:
In the round of 16, the US team was eliminated by Belgium after a 1–4 defeat. The USMNT’s lackluster performance stood in contrast with its energetic and creative showings earlier in the tournament, perhaps overshadowed by controversy surrounding FIFA’s stunning reversal of Folarin Balogun’s suspension due to his red card in the previous match.
Lol I bet the commissioner didn’t expect he’d brag about it to the public.
He forgot he ever met Trump before? He ought to get that checked.
Should have known better then,
He has a record of mouthing off
I’m not sure I believe him.
…and the whole football world cheered as Belgium mobbed the floor with them.
*mopped
*mogged
*mossed
Wtf would Biden have to do with this
It’s just part of his cognitive bias manipulation.
He has to keep up chipping away logical reasoning and at some point people just accept it as truth.
It works, unfortunately. For example, Trump supporters believe that cyclist actually damaged the Reflecting Pool because he was arrested. Being arrested must mean he did it, right?
It’s the central foundation of his inferiority complex.
Robert Baratheon: What about Aerys Targaryen? What did the Mad King say when you stabbed him in the back? I never asked. Did he call you a traitor? Did he plead for a reprieve?
Jaime Lannister: He said the same thing he’d been saying for hours… Burn them all!
I somehow forgot what a fucking hero Jaime was for that, and how it basically ruined the rest of his life.
Trump forgot that he’s president and still thinks he’s campaigning against Biden
Isn’t biden dying of cancer now. And STILL lives rent free in that orange perverted head.
Biden and Obama both have palatial estates on that fucktard’s head.
That appeal on the decision from the other team will appreciate this quote
