Fadel Allassan

Editor, @CNN Washington | formerly at @axios | Arsenal lover & VCU alumn | 📩 [email protected] 🇸🇳

[Fadel Allassan @FadelAllassan]

I’m happy to share that I’ve started as the weekend morning editor at @CNN

I’m forever grateful to have made so many amazing memories, and to have worked with such wonderful people, in my 5 years at @Axios 🥂

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

Baby Keem reveals who he’s been supporting in the World Cup ⚽️

"I'm only supporting Arsenal players, if you're an Arsenal player and you play for France or whoever, I'm supporting you. I’mma Arsenal fan, we good we just ate after 20 years.”

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

England have no appeal process, even though the US did.

Concerns over the VAR protocol were also raised to FIFA by the FA, but the two-match ban stands.

[Peter Rutzler @peterrutzler]

Head of the White House World Cup task force, Andrew Giuliani, says the U.S. wanted things to be fair on the pitch "especially when you consider all the federal dollars we laid out for this" when discussing Balogun's suspended suspension.

“We did that. You had that red card, which never should have been administered, reversed. And we stand by the actions that we took.”

https://t.co/g4rcnMQIAL

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

After repealing the Balogun red card, no such mercy from FIFA for Quansah. They have banned the England player for two games.

[Fiona Small @FionaSmall]

The discourse about Evangelicism in Brazil being the reason for their soccer team being crap now is producing some incredible lines

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Ed Davey has urged Keir Starmer to call Gianni Infantino now and tell him to resign as FIFA President after Jarrell Quansah received a two-match ban

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

There was significant controversy earlier this week over the decision to overturn Folarin Balogun’s ban.

But where does that decision — and Trump’s intervention — rank in the greatest World Cup scandals?

@EliasBurke takes a look ⬇️

🔗 https://t.co/WsGoGIsaRM

[Chico Barney @chicobarney]

Pela cara dos jogadores, foi o oponente mais difícil que enfrentaram nessa Copa.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

As of 5:01am this morning, Palm Beach International Airport officially became President Donald J. Trump International Airport, and Eric Trump made sure he was on the first flight into the newly named Florida hub.

@EricTrump explains how his father’s name is truly iconic in the sunshine state.

“I don't think there's anybody more synonymous with Palm Beach than Donald Trump and maybe all of Florida.”

“It's his home, he absolutely loves his state, won the state by a major margin. And this is the plane that carried him to victory.” | @foxandfriends

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

New in The Atlantic this morning: an extraordinary cover story by @rosehorowitch.

If you’re generally only reading tweets, emails, texts, and machine-generated sentences, you should really, really read this story (and after that, a novel!):

https://t.co/izCxIr0MW2

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

FIFA has never been richer. The World Cup has never been bigger.

Nearly laid to ruin by bribery and corruption 11 years ago, soccer's world governing body now has more money sloshing around than ever.

But where does it come from and where does it go?

Sit back for @CWeatherspoon_'s thorough probe into the finances of one of the richest sporting organisations on Earth.

🔗 https://t.co/ZrOSEXW36f

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: The Atlantic warns America is becoming “postliterate” as daily pleasure reading has fallen from 28% to 16% — & nearly 30% of adults now struggle to paraphrase or infer from a multipage text.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book.” This is just unimaginably bleak.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

At the direction of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command forces have started conducting additional strikes against Iran to further degrade their ability to threaten freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. The United States is holding Iran accountable for recent unjustified aggression against commercial shipping and civilian crews freely navigating a vital international waterway.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

A pilot jumped out of the door of a moving plane to his death, leaving the student he was teaching to fly to land the aircraft by herself.

The student said he told her, "You know what you have to do, carry on" https://t.co/sQNtRP1LZS

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

is this bad?

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Pressure continues to mount on Gianni Infantino following the decision to suspend USMNT striker Folarin Balogun’s one-match ban at the World Cup, with more than 70 European lawmakers calling for an investigation into FIFA and its president regarding the principle of political neutrality.

Balogun was sent off in the U.S’. round-of-32 game against Bosnia and Herzegovina and was set to be banned for the round-of-16 game against Belgium, though FIFA’s independent disciplinary committee suspended the ban and the 25-year-old subsequently started in the 4-1 defeat.

Before the match, Belgium appealed the decision but it was dismissed by FIFA, global soccer’s governing body.

More from @AdamCrafton_ and @samjoseph_17 ⬇️

🔗 https://t.co/9n3IaKrkR2

[Rob Harris @RobHarris]

White House World Cup chief casts fresh doubts about the integrity of the ref who sent off Balogun by linking him to match-fixing claims in Brazil.

No case has ever been brought against Raphael Claus; he only testified. FIFA & CBF have defended him

https://t.co/xRY55vTDl4

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCL: Bruno Guimaraes informs Newcastle United of wish to leave & join Arsenal. #AFC stepping up pursuit - ready to offer deal worth up to £60m at present but no club-to-club contact yet + #NUFC stance still not entertaining bids for 28yo @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/6W3cpcqKKh

[Fadel Allassan @FadelAllassan]

Adding more fuel to allegations USA got unprecedented special treatment in the World Cup

Balogun’s was much more clearly a red card than Olise’s was a yellow.

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨JUST IN: FIFA have rejected France’s appeal to overturn Michael Olise’s yellow card