#USMNT striker Folarin Balogun on his immediate reaction to red card:
“I think it was just important to stay calm. I never want to react out of anger and out of emotion. There’s still lots of people we’re inspiring, little kids, boys and girls who are watching, and we have to show them the correct way to handle things, even when you think it's unjust.”
On shaking ref’s hand postgame:
“As said, you can feel like something, injustice can happen to you. It’s not an excuse to be disrespectful… I'm aware that the World Cup might be the first time a lot of American viewers are tuning in. So it's important just to show people, whether things happen to you, good or bad, just to continue to be yourself.”
Do you guys realize what they’ve done? Lumen Field on a Monday night?? I honestly feel bad for Belgium. Will be the greatest crowd in the history of sports. If we score early, the earth will literally shake. No man could deliver in that environment. The Belgians will break.
I’m in Dallas, Texas, literally a land of kings. How can anybody move to America and become a communist. The general wealth that exists here is just crazy, even just middle class people live so much better than Australia.
My Australian friend from uni lives here. Pays 20% tax, earns way more than he would earn in Australia. Can actually afford a home and can support his wife on a single income. CRAZY. We have fallen so far behind in Australia.
BREAKING: The USMNT's win against Bosnia-Herzegovina averaged 24.4 million viewers on Fox, peaking at 31.8 million.
That makes it the most-watched soccer telecast in English-language U.S. history.
Balogun was in on goal. He beat the defender and was about to score.
No red card. No penalty. No yellow card. No foul. No review.
The bizarre thing is that Fox Sports showed a replay that began just AFTER the defender let go of the arm. So weird. How could the officials miss this? And how could the TV crew miss it as well? @USMNT
What a bizarre decision by the Seattle Times sports page to make the Belgium game the headline when Team USA advances for the first time in decades and will play in Seattle.
This reporter explains the insane process of turning American football stadiums into natural-grass soccer fields for the World Cup.
Some of these stadiums normally use artificial turf, but FIFA requires World Cup matches to be played on natural grass.