Top Tweets for #WMboykott

One phone call from President Trump to his buddy Gianni Infantino and — boom — FIFA overturns a World Cup red card suspension for the first time in tournament history so U.S. star Folarin Balogun can play Belgium tomorrow. Belgium is already furious and “astonished.” They should be. Contest this rigged nonsense publicly all day today and all day tomorrow. The World Cup on American soil just became a Trump family business. So much for credibility, fairness, or rules. This stinks of corruption. ⚽📞🇺🇸

I haven’t said much about this World Cup, but I’m going to say this: I never expected anything other than pettiness and bigotry from this administration. And I definitely never expected anything less than corruption and incompetence from FIFA. But I did expect basic decency and sportsmanship from the competition. I have lost every ounce of respect I ever had for players and teams who remained silent in the face of blatant discrimination and unfairness against one participant. At this point, not a single one of them is worth being called a sportsman, let alone holding the title of world champion.