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.

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      how the fuck did this piece of shit become a billionaire when everything turns to fucking shit? Boggles the mind.

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        Because half of Trump voters still think his family did not gain wealth from his presidencies.

        When your voting base is this ignorant, corruption and deregulation festers, feeding into the ignorance/corruption cycle ad nauseum.

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    He probably doesn’t even watch the soccer. We should really start handing out “Playing Victim” cards to trump every time he whines

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      He admitted that he didn’t know exactly what a red card meant. Even worse, he thought it was unfair that you could be penalized for a game that hadn’t happened yet.

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        lol… We don’t even watch much soccer in Australia, and even the biggest dumbass knows what a red card is

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          I was at the Club World Cup Final outside NYC last year. Don’t Cheeto was there making a scene with Mr FIFA. I’m pretty sure that was the first soccer game he had ever been to. I’m guessing he didn’t attend any of his kids’ games before molesting them.

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    Well fuck. I was pulling for USA but with this special treatment I’m not sure I can anymore.

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    So annoying. Government should not give a fuck about games.

    Worse, the people who should care, the sports fans, just keep throwing their money at fifa.

    We are all fucked. Corporate sports and government grift, and people cant stop watching and/or don’t care.

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    As if the peace prize wasn’t bad enough, they now need to bring their corruption to the game itself.

    If this doesn’t alienate all member organisations, I don’t know what will. They should pull the plug and start a new international federation with better accountability.

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    Reminder of the sponsors of this tournament: Edit: Budweiser and Hisense are also sponsors

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    the red card was def harsh don’t get me wrong. balogun clearly didn’t mean to do that, but it’s understandable to preserve a level of safety in the game. you have FIFA saying at first that the FA will not rescind the red card given to balogun, then suddenly the president himself calls infantino and now the red card is suspended? come on. had this happened to belgium there would be uproar from so many americans. it is 1)insanely corrupt and 2) sets a very bad precedent cause now any country can just ask to get their bookings for players reversed. this is getting long but anyways please pirate all your world cup games!!

    Edit: LOOOOOLLL GET FUCKED AMERIKKKA daddy trump literally cheated for them and they still lost what a bunch of clowns

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    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.

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    Funny. The American ambassador in Belgium has claimed trump didn’t and wouldn’t ever do something like that