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

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        I wouldn’t be surprised for a second if he announced %100 tariffs for Belgian beer and chocolate now.

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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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        Well to be honest, because we made laws to make it so. If he had been born a plank of wood, and never spoke, walked, or did anything. He would be a billionaire today. We made bankruptcy laws to make sure the rich couldn’t become poor by accident. Set bankruptcy at 10% of ones net worth, and every billionaire would fight it. Say you can sell a company was worth 1.4 billion, you can declare bankruptcy and it will cost pennies comparatively. The people who lose their houses are struggling, the companies don’t lose anything but a oops.

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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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    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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      You can keep playing, but as punishment you have to have dinner with the presidents (USA & FIFA).

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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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    Bad calls are part of every sport. It happens. Rules are rules, and if the there is no official instant replay or challenge procedure then the call stands. Rules are fucking rules.

    This is no longer about a bad call. It’s about integrity.

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      Ah yes… FIFA, a paragon of integrity.

      Do you all hear yourselves? FIFA Article 27 exists exclusively to not have this so-called integrity you all are concerned about.

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