This is what turns casual soccer fans off to the sport. In the first half, a BIH player blindside trucks Tyler Adams, there’s not even a foul.
Balogun isn’t even looking at an opponent and accidentally steps on dudes foot and gets a red card.
What a joke.
It’s a lot to ask Americans to get invested in a sport where a single referee can remove a star player for two games with no accuracy and no ability to review.
1) It is possible that I don’t know enough and that’s a perfectly reasonable red card in World Cup play.
2) That call is why soccer will never catch all the way on in the US. To have a guy booted AND then miss a game for that is an outrage.
My son asked me “why is he getting kicked out.” And I said “because he stepped on that guy’s foot.” And then I realized how insane that is.