🏆⚽"This is going to send shockwaves through football." Sports journalist Andreas Evagora assesses #FIFA's controversial decision to lift US striker Folarin #Balogun's red card suspension after Trump's request for review. More on #F24Spotlight
"There's always been, of course, let's say, cheating in any sport and some hijinks. This is completely different because this is a government literally saying who must and who must not play. Now, this has never happened before. I think we could perhaps say that this was inevitable once FIFA got so close to Trump and the MAGA movement. This is an organisation and a president that, in his own words, doesn't believe in the international rules-based order, that phrase we hear all the time. But what is FIFA? It's a kind of international rules-based order. You have to have international rules. And this was just one that everyone thought would stick, and it hasn't. So the reaction has not surprisingly been really quite violent. We've had Solbak and the Norwegian coach, we've had Belgium, obviously we've had because this is going to send shockwaves through football because now any team can challenge any decision."
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🏆⚽"This is going to send shockwaves through football." Sports journalist Andreas Evagora assesses #FIFA's controversial decision to lift US striker Folarin #Balogun's red card suspension after Trump's request for review. More on #F24Spotlight