From a Dallas resident visiting for USA vs. Belgium, in the Seattle Times:
“The buses are everywhere. The city is so walkable. You have one of the cleanest downtowns in America. This downtown is as incredible as any place in the world.”
World class city and state.
A huge cultural difference between international soccer and American sports cultures. Americans are used to our athletes saying they prefer to beat an opponent at full strength. International soccer culture - the same culture that produces players pretending to be injured - is fine whinging about a guy being suspended for something he didn’t even do to their team.
To all the Europeans clutching their pearls over this after spending the last several days Eurosplaining the sport to us, let me explain it to you.
Even if Balogun deserved a red (he didn’t), the referee misused VAR under FIFA’s own rules. That resulted in a red card that couldn’t be appealed.
FIFA then correctly used Article 27 to review and suspend the ban because the initial VAR error led to an unappealable decision.
It’s hilarious that they’re gonna try to make a player who’s only eligible for the team via birthright citizenship a symbol of the Trump admin. Genuinely we live amongst cattle
Wild that a US senator is parroting the baseless conspiracy that white power group Patriot Front is some kind of leftist psyop. They are real and they are dangerous.