Moisnu

Passionate about French Politics and DDR | Sport enthusiast | "Laws must be general, equal and certain."

[Moisnu @Moisnu]

@Eurosport_FR pouvez vous dire à Antoine Donnarieix que Hradecky n’est pas Slovaque mais Finlandais ? 🇫🇮 #PSGASM

[Paul Gasnier @polgasnier]

Sur Lena Situations et Gisèle Journo. Que vaut l’amitié face à la crainte de perdre des abonnés ? Une controverse qui raconte notre époque👇🏾

[Ali Al Hussein @AliBinAlHussein]

Thank you to the FIFA administration for suddenly this morning delivering what was owed to our players and coaching staff, for the Jordan National team’s accession to the final of the FIFA Arab Cup in Qatar last December.
This was funding that should have been received 8 months ago.
While this is a good development for our players, it does not change the serious concerns we in the football world have regarding the FIFA leadership, nor does it change what our FAs have been subjected to in the past.
It is symptomatic of those exact difficulties that we all face, and that are usually linked to the FIFA presidential elections. And it does not change my clear position concerning the leadership of FIFA: my FA and I will not endorse president Infantino, nor will we vote for him.

[Eli @ElMengem]

An official FIFA account jumping in the replies of articles exposing the corrupt ways of its leader. Further evidence that this institution that’s sole aim is to run our game, has been hijacked to serve the interests of one man. Infantino.

Enough is enough. Get him out.

[Ali Al Hussein @AliBinAlHussein]

There is no shortage of issues regarding FIFA. Let me start by clarifying what some of these are from an FA perspective, in particular that of Jordan going into a World Cup for the first time.
We are a small country with a minimal budget for our FA and had to deal with enormous hurdles. First, getting our fans into the USA: not all were granted VISAS, even though they had tickets -which we also know were sold at exorbitant prices. Secondly, we are being taxed by the US govt through FIFA for our participation. Money that should go to players and staff. This was not the case for those who played and set up camp in Canada and Mexico. But we happened to be in the USA so now we face these huge costs in taxes for having participated.
Thirdly we have been waiting for reward money for our players since December for the Arab cup in Qatar, which is a FIFA event. The money our team should receive for having reached the final has not been delivered yet, while at the same time FIFA brags about how many billions they have in reserve.
It is clear the problem really is with leadership. For months, FIFA has been refusing to help us on any of these or other matters- until it was verbally communicated to me during the World Cup that if I endorsed Infantino it would go a long way to helping our FA out.
We pride ourselves in Jordan in upholding ethical values. We did not endorse him before and certainly will not now. But the whole situation amounts to blackmail and we refuse to give in to that.

[Matt Herdman @MattHerdman]

Europe: “America has no soccer culture”

America: *does a wildly corrupt thing with the president of fifa*

Europe: no not like that

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

Overturn this. 🧏‍♂️ #USABEL

[The Purple Pimpernel @Eyeswideopen69]

As a European, I don’t want my team to win by cheating.

Guess things are different in the United States.

[Lars Christensen @MaMoMVPY]

This is basically all wrong. In Europe there still is respect for the rule of law. In the US the rules will be changed by the King when it suits him. And Americans now more or less accept that this is ok.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Because you’re literally not playing by the rules.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

And so, inevitably, we arrive at the USAians. Their goalscorer got a red card. A ban. A game in the stands. The rules every nation on Earth accepts. You foul, you sit, you come back. Simple.

Now, the Americans insist it was never a red card at all. And who knows, maybe it wasn’t. Even if the opponent’s leg looked like it might snap in half, referees get things wrong all the time. That is football. We love it and hate it for precisely this reason. But here’s the thing everyone else on the planet understands: a red card means a suspension even when the referee is wrong. Even when VAR is wrong. You can rage about the decision all you like, but the consequence stands. It always stands. That is the entire deal.

Think of it this way. A defender hacks someone down in the box, the whistle goes, penalty. Maybe it was soft. Maybe it was a dive. Doesn’t matter. The other team takes the penalty. What does not happen, what has never happened in the history of the sport, is a president ringing FIFA afterwards and having the goal quietly removed because his team didn’t fancy the outcome. The decision on the pitch is the decision. Full stop.

Except America’s response was to have the President of the United States, the actual man with the nuclear codes, telephone FIFA. FIFA, the most gloriously bent organisation in world sport, an outfit so crooked it makes a corkscrew look principled. And lo, the ban evaporated, the rulebook was rewritten, and Balogun trotted back onto the pitch as if nothing had happened.

Belgium complained. Obviously. And the American answer? A lecture. “We don’t understand the whining. We Americans always want to beat the best team. That’s when victory feels earned. Anything less is loser mentality.”

What a load of drivel. Belgium wants exactly the same thing. They want to beat the best American team. Nobody in Brussels is hiding under the bed because one striker is good at football. That was never the complaint.
The complaint is that this is cheating. Plain, old-fashioned, unambiguous cheating. Getting your head of state to lean on a governing body until an ordinary suspension disappears.

And everyone knows what we say about cheaters. Nothing they win counts. Ever again. Every goal from here carries an asterisk the size of Texas. If they lift the trophy, the entire planet will know how it was done, and nobody, not one single soul outside their own borders, will ever accept that this team won anything. What they’ll see instead is a squad of snivelling, cowardly, crying children who screamed until daddy fixed it.

There is no honour in this. None. A tournament that began so well for them now ends the only way it can: as a permanent embarrassment for American football. Forever.

And the tough-guy speech about always wanting to face the best? LOL. Embarrassing as well.
If they win now, they’ll never admit how. And honestly, they’ll never need to. The whole world already knows.

[Kevin Jon Heller 🇺🇸🇩🇰 @kevinjonheller]

Arguing that #FIFA's open corruption is fine because Balogun didn't deserve a red card is the most American thing ever. #FIFAWorldCup

[John Færseth @JohnFaerseth]

It is irrelevant whether Balogun deserved a red card. Referees make stupid decisions all the time. If personal diplomacy and power can override decisions and the USA wins, it means outcomes are being decided off the field. That's match-fixing, and the end of sports.

[NJB @nigel_b_golf]

This bloke has zero understanding of the the gravitas of what he’s just said. By the letter of the law according to FIFA, the USMNT should be removed from the WC and Infantino should be removed from position as president.

He’s actually stitched them all up.

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

The Swiss Football Association weighs in on the decision to allow USA's Folarin Balogun to play vs. Belgium. #FIFAWorldCup

[Fédé 🇫🇷 de la Lose @FFLose]

Cher Rudi Garcia,
Coach de Dijon, du Mans, du LOSC, de Lyon, de Marseille et maintenant de la Belgique,

La FFL t'a beaucoup vanné. Oui, on a fait beaucoup de likes grâces aux défaites de tes clubs. Faut dire que tu as été une grande inspiration pour nous.

Mais aujourd'hui, pour une fois, la FFL t'implore de gagner. Enfin non, pas simplement de gagner : d'Écraser les Amerloques.

Ce soir avec l'équipe de Belgique, Rudi aura l'occasion d'être le Français qui dit "Bonsoir non" au monsieur orange et à sa boule de cristal de compagnie.
Fais le Rudi, pour le Football.

Promis, on ne te vannera plus après (on verra).

[Rachel Kryshak @RachelKryshak]

To be clear: Whether it is or isn’t a red to Balogun is now irrelevant. Government interference is a violation of FIFA Article 2 & 15, and the punishment is disqualification and suspension. Nepal was suspended.

This is an admission of the violation.

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[Bosnian Football @BosniaNTBall]

Whether it is or isn’t a red to Balogun is now irrelevant. Government interference is a violation of FIFA Article 2 & 15, and the punishment is disqualification and suspension. #FIFAWorldCup