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Trump's meddling in FIFA World Cup stuns analysts
The White House reportedly made a direct call to FIFA's president, Gianni Infantino, requesting the overturning of a red card suspension made on an American player.Folarin Balogun, 25, received an automatic one-game suspension following a red card during the Bosnia and U.S match on July 1. But ahead of the USA's crucial World Cup quarterfinal match against Belgium on Monday night, FIFA reversed the suspension and allowed Balogun to play, reported Ben Jacobs for GiveMeSport. President Donald Trump subsequently praised FIFA on Truth Social, Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice!Critics reacted online. Possible corruption and cheating aside, hilarious that the Trump administration [was] allegedly pushing hard to reinstate a player who is a literal birthright citizen, Mehdi Hasan, founder of Zeteo News, posted on X. FIFA has explicit statutes preventing political or government interference. This should be a resigning matter for a repeatedly disgraced FIFA President, Tim Stillman, a football writer for ArseBlog.com, posted on X.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
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TRT World
· Jul 1, 2026
Politics, power and the World Cup | Bigger Than Five
The FIFA World Cup is shining a spotlight on politics, discrimination and double standards. Former Iran national team coach Afshin Ghotbi explains why some players are judged by the governments they represent, while others are treated simply as athletes. Then, former US player and academic Jules Boykoff asks whether FIFA is living up to its own principles of neutrality. As football and politics collide, Bigger Than Five examines the controversies beyond the pitch.
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· Jul 9, 2026
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All the latest as we look ahead to the quarter-finals Player guide | Bracketology| Golden Boot | Email usAndrew Giuliani, head of the White House’s World Cup taskforce, has defended Donald Trump’s lobbying of Fifa to lift the suspension of US player Folarin Balogun for Monday’s game against Belgium.The US president claimed that Brazilian referee Raphael Claus, who showed Balogun a red card in the match against Bosnia and Herzegovina, was “a little bit suspect, if you check his past”. This was apparently a reference to a match-fixing investigation by Brazil’s senate in 2024 that examined how referees were assigned to games but did not accuse Claus of wrongdoing. Continue reading...
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· Jul 6, 2026
What Trump’s FIFA Scandal Says About His Politics
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· Jul 7, 2026
Trump defends World Cup intervention
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Sky News Australia
· Jul 7, 2026
Trump’s World Cup intervention causes geopolitical mayhem
Sky News contributor Kosha Gada reacts to US President Donald Trump contacting FIFA over a red card given to a star on the US football team. “It’s turning soccer and the World Cup right now into this microcosm of world geopolitics in general,” Ms Gada told Sky News host James Morrow. “With different leaders weighing in, we saw the South Koreans weigh in and almost riot last week.”
OneFootball
· Jul 9, 2026
Trump pressure puts FIFA in a bind, could aid Brazilian ref at World Cup
Donald Trump’s public criticism, which cast doubt on Raphael Claus’s integrity after the sending-off of American Folarin Balogun, has put FIFA in a real diplomatic and sporting crossroads and coul...
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