🚨 𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔 𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗔: Algunos miembros de la junta ejecutiva de la FIFA están PIDIENDO LA RENUNCIA del presidente Gianni Infantino y preparando una demanda en su contra tras revelaciones de que la FIFA rompió las reglas para favorecer a un jugador y un país, según especulaciones en línea. ⚠️🇺🇸
⚽️ | URGENTE - MUNDIAL 2026: Algunos miembros de la junta ejecutiva de la FIFA están pidiendo la renuncia del presidente Gianni Infantino y preparando una demanda en su contra tras revelaciones de que la FIFA dobló las reglas para favorecer a un jugador y un país, según especulaciones en línea.
🚨 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: Statement from UEFA on FIFA overturning Folarin Balogun's one-match suspension:
"Yesterday's decision to suspend for a probationary period of a year the
implementation of the one-match automatic suspension following the red card issued to the player Folarin Balogun crossed a red line."
"Football, like any other sports, relies on rules, which are the basis for fair, honest and transparent competition. Sometimes rules are open to interpretation. In this case not."
"A minimum automatic suspension of one match following a red card is not a discretionary option and does not require the decision of a competent body to be enacted. It is a principle embedded in regulations, which cannot be made subject to exceptions, let alone in the middle of a tournament where several other players have been in the same situation and regularly served their suspension."
"When the certainty of rules is no longer guaranteed by its guardians, the integrity of the game is at stake and the credibility of a competition is undermined. Equally, such decision creates a precedent in the ongoing tournament, where similar situations will now require an equal treatment, to the detriment of the competition."
"Football is the most loved sport in the world because it is a beautiful game and is trusted because it is played everywhere with the same laws. A tournament is never a pure standalone and, if the tournament in question is the World Cup, it has the power to drive positive or negative consequences on the game as a whole."
"We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision."
UEFA issues strong condemnation of FIFA over its decision to lift Balogun suspension for USA.
UEFA by far the most powerful regional body in world football and can make life very difficult indeed for the FIFA chief.
Champions League, Premier League, LA Liga in particular, global cash cows for the sport that even American sponsorship involvement can't get near.
Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?
Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump
🗣🔥 "NO ESTAMOS DEFENDIENDO A LA SELECCIÓN NI A LA FEDERACIÓN, ESTAMOS DEFENDIENDO AL FÚTBOL Y LA INTEGRIDAD"
La BRONCA de Rudi García, DT de Bélgica 🇧🇪
Thomas Tuchel makes strong points on Folarin Balogun’s reprieve. “To be clear it was not a red card. VAR got involved. The decision is made. Who overturns this decision and when and on what grounds? It’s strange for me. We want consistency. I think it is not a yellow card, Declan Rice. Does France get the yellow card back for (Michael) Olise which was not a yellow card. Where does this start and where does this end? Do we appeal (Jarell Quansah red)?” Should Harry Kane ask President Trump? “Maybe!” Tuchel smiled.
🚨🗣 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Jurgen Klopp on Donald Trump calling Gianni Infantino directly:
"If that really was the case, then that's crazy. Let's just say this is our game, not theirs."
"These two people, who both have no idea about football, should have nothing to do with that."
"That was a red card. There are no two ways about it. We're sorry for Balogun because he didn't mean to do it. But that's what the rules say."
🚨🗣️ Zlatan Ibrahimovic on FIFA reversing the Balogun red card against Bosnia:
🗣️ “I don’t want to speak, because it if I speak I might get my bags packing back home by tomorrow.”
FIFA are supposed to suspend countries whose politicians interfere in how the World Cup is managed.
Go for it Belgium. Take legal action Court of Arbitration in Sport, Switzerland, and US courts all at the same time.
Do it for the game.
🚨 José Mourinho on the overturned red card for Folarin Balogun:
“Why? Because they’re the hosts? What is this nonsense? In football, these decisions must be the same for everyone. If the red card is a red card, it stays a red card.
People don’t like to admit it, but sometimes where you come from changes how you’re treated. Tell me honestly—does that decision get overturned if the player represents Ghana or Paraguay? I don’t think so. The rules should be the same for every nation.”
🚨⚠️ Belgium coach Rudi Garcia: “I didn’t know that at the World Cup as at FIFA the 5th of July is actually the first of April. It’s April Fools”.
“We’re not defending the national team or federation, we are defending football and integrity”.
Folarin Balogun, melhor jogador dos Estados Unidos na Copa do Mundo, foi expulso contra a Bósnia após essa entrada VIOLENTÍSSIMA.
Bom, o cartão vermelho acaba de ser ANULADO e ele está disponível para enfrentar a Bélgica.
Inacreditável… Tem coisa aí.
La copa del mundo acaba de quedar marcada para siempre por una intromisión política en una decisión tomada en la cancha.
Múltiple reportes de prensa confirman lo que aquí el presidente de Estados Unidos revela: fue presión directa sobre la Fifa la que consiguió cancelar la suspensión por tarjeta roja del delantero Estrella del equipo estadounidense.
Una vergüenza histórica.