So… after the ridiculous peace prize trump is now even forcing FIFA to manipulate the game in their favour.
If Europe had any balls we would just go home and start a new organisation to replace the corrupt FIFA. We should have never even accepted to play in trumpistan
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Please link to the original source or we’ll have to remove it.
That site is giving me 403s.
The Folarin Balogun red card
https://easysportz.com/2026/07/trump-white-house-add-political-fire-to-balogun-red-card-reversal/
Ty
Thanks for fixing it!
The real irony, which I’m sure is lost on Trump, is that Balogun is only able to play for the US due to his birthright citizenship, something the Trump administration is actively trying to get rid of.
Balogun played for England until 2023.
Yeah, but he has “gun” in his name, so he’s definitely American. /s
“Birthright” is such a terrible term for that way of obtaining citizenship.
Isn’t it also a “birth right” to get citizenship based on the citizenships of the parents who gave birth to you?
Jus soli is “birthright”, jus sanguinis is also “birthright”. It’s only naturalization that is a way to get citizenship that isn’t a result of your birth.
FIFA, one of the most corrupt groups on the planet? I am shocked!
We all know that, but I think this must be the most public and simple corruption ever
2015 would like a word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case
That’s not public … until it got discovered
Then this isn’t public either. There is no proof, no legal investigation, only media accusation. This is like saying the 2010 scandal wasn’t public because the bribes weren’t proven until a year later.
What do you mean no proof? Trump already admitted it
Source?
Edit: Found it. Sky News where Trump is bragging and said Biden was sleeping. If FIFA doesn’t admit it, we’re still pretty much in the same boat as all the others.
The other catch with this one is it was a bad call, and the review board might have been reversing it regardless of Trump’s call. Oh well.
As if FIFA couldn’t get any more disgusting…
So the most corrupt president America has ever seen is “in” with the most corrupt organization that the sports world has ever seen? Shocking.
I mean, that criminal investigation didn’t go away just for the made up FIFA peace prize. This was inevitable.
According to reports, the White House made a direct call to FIFA asking president Gianni Infantino to review Balogun’s red card before the United States’ Round of 16 match against Belgium. FIFA later suspended Balogun’s automatic one-match ban under Article 27, making him eligible to play.
Article 66.4 of the same disciplinary code: “A sending-off automatically incurs suspension from the subsequent match. The FIFA judicial bodies may impose additional match suspensions and other disciplinary measures.”
They already ratfucked Iran by making them travel 12 hours by bus from Tijuana to Seattle and back on match day, and by cancelling a winning goal for a supposed offside. Dallas police attacked the Egyptian coach in the airport. This tournament has been the nail in the coffin of FIFA. This is just blatant hyper corruption, sort of a US style UFC-isation of football that the rest of the world will have a difficult time to digest.
FIFA has always been corrupt, from displacement and human trafficking to this. Same as Olympics, NFL, NBA, boxing, WWF, dogfighting, MMA, ad infinitum. People should wake up. Sports aren’t wrong, commodification is messed all the way up.
Hmm… TJ to Seattle is like 1200mi/2000km, so you’re looking at nearly 20 hours before factoring in stops.
edit: 2000km, not 200km
It does come across like someone had a bet going and pulled some strings to have it in their favour.
He & FIFA have basically invalidated every red card in the tournament.
If it doesnt stick for the USA it shouldnt stick for anyone else.
World football really needs to move away from FIFA as an organisation.
They absolutely should, but they won’t because Europe has no backbone when it comes to FIFA.
Most likely the real story is that money changed hands. These old corrupt bastards aren’t that complicated, even though they are secretive.
The way things are done nowadays, the payment is done later with highly paid “opportunities” offered to the people who did him that “favor”.
That’s how politicians who do favors to the right people end up nominated to highly paid political positions or get non-executive board memberships, gold plated consulting gigs or millionaire “speech circuit” gigs in companies of a domain they have no expertise at all in but whose top companies they helped a lot.
During your time holding decision maker power you make “friends” with your executive, legislative or legal decision of people who are either very wealthy or hold power to nominate people to very lucrative sinecures and later they “reciprocate that friendship”. This by the way also applies inside the Private sector - for example with Fund Managers buying a lot of services from some specific Investment Banks and later, by an amazing coincidence, ending up a Traders in said banks.
As for the public sector, all you have to do is look at the sources of income after they left of plenty of ex-POTUS or ex-EU Commission members and compare it which who they favored whilst in power.
So when my company holds a “con” and invites all kinds of useless speakers to babble for a few minutes, is that all just a scam that they’re running to pay each other.
I was deadass joking with a coworker that Trump would be the kind of person to call FIFA and bitch about a red card, but neither of us thought he would actually do it. I should know by now.
If Europe had any balls we would just go home and start a new organisation to replace the corrupt FIFA.
UEFA is already a thing.
I don’t mean a European organisation. I mean an international one that excludes the USA
Ah, that. Yeah, I understand the sentiment, but of course that’s never going to happen. It’s not as if any of it is actually about the game for those people, anyway.
Living in a football-crazy country (back during the time of the Fascist dictatorship here, Football used to be one of the methods the Fascists purposefully used to distract the masses) and having lived in other countries in Europe some of which almost as football crazy (like the UK), IMHO football fans are some of the most stupid, most serville people around - tribalist sheeple whose idea of pushing back is to fight with tribalist sheeple who wear a differently colored shirt and whose understanding of “power” in that sport starts and ends at being a game referee.
Even otherwise mildly intelligent people seem to lose 50 IQ points when it comes to “their” team or “their” national team.
So I expect that nothing at all is going to happen.
PS: And I mean Football in the European sense, not the American sense.
I remember being pleased when we got rid of Blatter
I guess I thought he was the bottom of the barrel
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Guess this barrel is all bottom.
FIFA is made up of bottom-quality officials all the way down.
LOL: look at his statement on the situation https://xcancel.com/SeppBlatter/status/2074022159916130658
When even a corrupt fuck is calling them out…
I really hope this will be a nail in the coffin of FIFA
I doubt it. All the big clubs profit from it and seem to be doing well with all the money they pay players and management. A new football association would not have the sponsors, name brand recognition and relations behind it to get FIFA clubs play against non FIFA clubs.
Soooo…fans need to start boycotting sponsors until FIFA cleans house or a new association props up?
The big clubs don’t benefit at all. Their prized players are taken away from their training regime, and teams are not paid for the use of the players or compensated should they become injured.
To be the end of FIFA, the member countries would somehow have to work together and organize their own competing World Cup. A lot of the power FIFA has is that there are a lot of small football associations from corrupt countries (or at least corrupt football associations from small countries). Even if all the UEFA member states and the South American member states tried to do their own thing, that’s not enough.
Infantino can count on support from countries like Kyrgistan, Laos, Myanmar, Maldives, Yemen, Namibia, Eswatini, Somalia, South Sudan, etc. Infantino is corrupt, but he’s clever enough to spread some of the money to these other places. They know that if he’s removed or replaced, their funds will get cut off.
In the past, the only thing that worked was when a country that didn’t really care about the sport decided to step in. Back when the US wasn’t quite as corrupt as it is now, it chose to investigate FIFA and charged a whole bunch of officials with wire fraud, racketeering, money laundering, etc. I don’t know if there’s any country that has the power, the courage, and the lack of corruption to do that now. Without that, I don’t think FIFA is going to magically become clean from the inside.
I had heard some initial reports that it was suspended due to the way it being reviewed was against the rules. Something about using slow-mo before calling for the review or something. I had hoped that was the case, because this was the alternative. My already extreme disgust for FIFA somehow got way worse.
I cannot wait for this absolute piece of human garbage to die.
