Report: Donald Trump called Gianni Infantino before Balogun ban was lifted
FIFA's own rules dictate that if a government tries to intervene in a disciplinary matter - that team is disqualified. Not happening to the USA though, despite trump making that phone call. Wonder why. 🤔 Fuck Trump. Fuck Infantino. Post anything here: interactink.vercel.app
Gunnar Goldhair24They should kick the USA out and reinstate Scotland. We never try to interfere with a tournament. Not even the team.
Sharon 🇺🇸💙✡️15I mean, just how bad would it look, to know you gave the 1st annual FIFA peace prize to that fuckwad, then disqualified his country’s team bc he broke your own rule? I wonder when, or if, the US can gain respect on the world stage, ever again.
Heidi Haaland9Protecting his sons’ gambling ´investments ‘
justbegreene8Everything he touches or thinks about turns to shit! Our president is a menace to society! A walking talking dumbass!
The Liberal BoJack8InteractInk is a FREE anonymous discussion board built for open conversations. Post anonymously, browse freely, and connect without creating an account. Post anything here: interactink.vercel.app
Georgia Metal Dad7Biggest reason I hate the decision to overturn is that if we win tonight, the storyline is “FIFA fixed the game for the US” and take away everything that this team has done. I said at the beginning that making the RO16 with a chance to win would be a huge achievement. Now I can’t even celebrate.
Canuck Traveler🇨🇦5DISQUALIFY USA #BOYCOTTUSAGAMES #FIFACORRUPTION 🖕TRUMP 🖕FIFA
DM Skywalker2Being this upset about fifa sort of explains why liberals had no problem with Kamala. They’re clueless. They pay attention to nothing. And they think the world can be all ice cream and titty fucks while capitalism exists.
Marc 🍁2FIFA is illegit. A farce. Just a big show. Sport? Hardly. Complete farce.
Window into the mocking with which foreign media is treating the situation. The latest on the live of Le Monde, France’s paper of record: “We’re being told Trump wants to file an appeal with Infantino alleging that the Belgian team played soccer.”
Paulie8“All I need is 4 goals…”
Zaggs7I was honestly expecting someone in foreign media to ask Infantino if he was going to overturn the result when Trump asked
BeefReeferLives3No one does 'mocking disdain' like the French...
Bean Ponderer2Unfortunately, a very good and deserved own.
Peter Principle1You know Donnie's gonna blow up the NATO summit over this.
WishIWasBorn25YearsEarlier🐸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇵🇸1Oh really, darn, should have been playing football not soccer. Explains everything
Never stop poasting4Actually made me laugh out loud. That's a good one.
Gloria is here!4I dare the American media to cover Trump's meddling & Team USA's loss with objectivity, bc the last 24hrs has frankly been embarrassing. So much gaslighting by US journos. Only foreign outlets have been clear-eyed about FIFA rules & corruption here!
am-mccarthy.bsky.social2Belgian Team To Be Investigated For Mortgage Fraud
Bruno do Amaral2Actually, US played soccer. Belgium played football.
쏨이시대2Can't even really hit back, can you? Given how good this France national team is
Original Cat Dude2The TRUMP CURSE strikes again...
Trump Just Rigged the World Cup One phone call to FIFA President Infantino and — for the FIRST TIME in history — a crystal-clear red card was overturned so USA's Balogun can play tonight Trump even bragged about it on Truth Social The world is furious The World Cup is now a Trump family grift 👇
Edlib31He has taken away real victory from the team
Outspoken™️28Did he ask just once or 11,780 times?
Frastly21If that PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE has any sense he will NOT play. If he steps on the pitch for this game, he will be rendered a disgrace, forevermore. Don't let Trump touch you like that. 😒
Eddie Burfi 21At this rate FIFA are going to award Trump the top goal scorer Golden Boot.
If we still respected sportsmanship, Balogun would sit out. Belgium would refuse to play some US teammates should sit out too.
Bobbitworm (AllanM)18This is a disgrace, Trump is now officially, granted by Infantino, VAR status. We all knew that America would eventually f*** with the World Cup. The US should stick to Basketball and Baseball and leave the world’s greatest game to those that love and respect it 🤬
Asher Elbein47I would rather not do this thing where we all decide to pretend that it was a "crystal-clear red card," instead of a reasonably contestable call that was -- in the primary Trump manner -- litigated in the most corrupt-looking way possible
Psycho Pete35The whole thing has no credibility now. The same way we don’t own the regime’s actions, soccer fans, if they love the sport as much as they say, should wash their hands of it. Demand new fifa leadership. Boycott. (FIFA is in the boycott guide pinned to my feed)
Fergus Murray31I don't care enough about football to have a clear perspective on any of this, but it feels like maybe people should have been boycotting this thing from the start? The FIFA "Peace Prize" was a really bad sign, right? And referees and fans predictably being denied entry, and so on... Right? No?
HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧17As if the world didn’t hate us already.
🏳️🌈Ash❤️🔥Cinder🏳️🌈13I hope no one ever views an American opponent as “fair competition” again, in any category. We are dirty players who will stoop to any low if we think it will help us cheat our way to victory. Americans can’t win fairly, and pretend that’s something to be proud of.
🔞Jock Sniffin' Hroth🔞7Grown ass professional sports men will do literally ANYTHING but play the sport right because “mah masculinity” And then we have Trump and FIFA just being scummy as always
STEAMLORD5And FIFA just caved instead of telling him no??? It’s people like this that result in people like Elon musk
Stéphanie says… 🏴☠️🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️5FIFA President Infantino: “I didn’t expect, giving the leopard a fake ‘peace’ prize, would mean he’d expect me to eat my own face off if he ever required it.”
Pro-Democracy Indiana Resister 🇺🇸 🔄 🆘 🟦4Yeah, sooo, umm. We warned the world and asked them to protest and boycott the World Cup being held in the US while we are under fascism.
Mimi Jones3I Will NEVER WATCH ANOTHER FIFA GAME! E V E R
JUST NOW: Trump casts aspersions on the referee’s background and claims he only asked for a “review” from his @FIFAWorldCup buddy Gianni Infantino — an “independent committee” then magically reversed a red card given during the World Cup for the first time since 1962
~Art+Rage~22"What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes...." It should have stopped right there.
Tim Lowe19The grinning idiots behind him. The grinning idiots in Congress. The grinning idiots shooting Americans in the face. The grinning idiots voting for him. #America has a grinning idiots problem.
needmoreram.bsky.social9Trump: I want 11,750 red cards reviewed and overturned.
Just J9which means IF the USA wins EVERY country in FIFA will call it cheating and pull out of all future FIFA events and a new organization will arise. one with (hopefully) less overt corruption.
Marty Grant7Charlie Chaos is at it again. Anything to distract from the Trump/Epstein files and war surrender.
dkcoon.bsky.social6Once A Shameless Swindler, Always A Shameless Swindler...
don't worry I'm muting this post the second I send it *INFANTINO SAYS TRUMP CALL DIDN'T INFLUENCE FIFA DECISION: DPA
Uptown Sinclair6From July last year. I wonder when the lease is due for renewal.
Nevi 🌻3Obviously he will say this cause under FIFA rules government intervention results in disqualification, so instead of punishing the attempt he caved
Laminariales2Trump didn't even need to call! Infantino knew the deal and Lutnick had the phone-based wheedling/threats part covered.
Daniel Gilmore43Pitch perfect for a Trump story that we start off w details that are likely close to true—ppl in Trumps orbit instigate this, he makes a call down the road—but as he sniffed a chance for self aggrandizement, he built it up into "Trump spearheaded this" & now FIFAs gotta be like "slow your roll man"
Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST31Much like the Iran War peace negotiations, what do you say when every party to the truth is completely unreliable?
Mike Boylan-Kolchin23“I was going to do a corruption anyway” is one of the most believable sentiments Infantino has expressed in a long time. Though, tbh, not sure I believe it.
All on a Speck of Dust in the Milky Way15The fact people are hitting the mat arguing, with a straight face, that Infantino needed to be threatened by Trump to do anything even mildly untoward is fucking making me dissociate.
Eric Blair12Don't worry, I'm muting this post the second I send it: SEPP BLATTER said "Red cards are not overturned by [politics]. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies."
Never stop poasting3That's just kinda what he has to say if he wants to keep his job.
Trump on the phone with Infantino ordering him to cancel the two Belgian goals
Franca (Ph.D.) 🇨🇦33 goals. Belgium 3- 1 USA
Michael B Puskar, Social Justice Activist1Time to call the GA SoS and ask them to find 3 goals for him.
ljupkadimitrovska.bsky.social1If Belgium win, he’ll be on the blower demanding a reversal
timbo6.bsky.social1The boys are playing hard in honor of their idol Trump! I wonder if Trump will invite them to the WH for Belgium waffles? Trump would do well to mind his own business and stop trying to bully everyone into engaging his overgrown ego!
Trump violated FIFA rules against state interference when he called Gianni Infantino, doing massive damage to the reputation of the United States. Billions of "non-political" football fans around the world now see the USA as just another one of those corrupt, shithole countries.
Sue6Belgium has now gained the support of the rest of the world. And USA team will be deemed to have cheated no matter how well they perform. Trump has smeared dirt all over the beautiful game
BillyDLion5Newsflash: most of the world already thought that. Now it's just confirmed.
electricblue51.bsky.social4Massive damage was done on January 7th 2021 when we didn’t throw his stinking rotten mass of inhumanity into prison for life.
StephenWLee3"Now see?" We've seen that for quite some time now.
Nigel D.2Some of us have believed that to be the case for quite a while now.
peterh83.bsky.social1That would be because the US is one of those…
Donald Trump lobbied Fifa to lift the US striker Folarin Balogun’s red card one match ban just before Sunday’s announcement that he would be available to play against Belgium in Seattle on Monday night. Rules mean nothing to either golf cheat Donald Trump or Fifa's Gianni Infantino.
Snigdha14The BBC report Fifa have not given any reasons or explanation for the decision to suspend Balogun's red card. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Paul Tyreman 〓〓5King Charles III should be on the phone now. I'm sorry, I'll read that again. Gianni Infantino should be out of a job now.
His Royal Huwness 🏴🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺3Gino Sycofantino - sadly not my own coining.
jesse3meanwhile it has put Balogun in the middle of this nightmare of only-bad options. The only possible solution I can think of is if the US coach makes the decision that he will not allow Balogun to play, hopefully shielding the player from inevitable MAGA fallout.
Gem&Molly ⓥ2I hate football but I know this much: the World Cup should not be played in the US.
MeganKCool2And the players who have worked so hard their entire lives will suffer. Trump ruins everything.
The path forward is clear: - Balogun scores a hat trick - Balogun gives an impassioned speech in favor of birthright citizenship and against corruption - Trump and Infantino humiliated - Both resign in disgrace #PatriotsInControl
mikkeljylland.bsky.social5It would be better if the US team refused to use him. Bucause they are against corruption no matter if it benefits them or not. If they use him and win it will be worth nothing.
Jason Biehl4I’d rather he not play. If he starts, a Belgium win feels like karma.
Bob Slominski3Or the coach sits him, and DJT and FIFA corruption is once again exposed.
benfranklinsaid.bsky.social2Yeah I hope we don’t win if it is facilitated by Donald Trump’s cheating. He should not play.
David Schaub🇺🇲🇺🇦1I've been rooting for the USA team, but I think it would be best if they did not play Balogun in this match.
Alan Neff1If only...I'm kind of wishing he declines to play and the administration tries and fails to revoke his citizenship.
This story has really shocked me, because up until this point there had never been even a whiff of corruption attached to FIFA... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
gandybob.bsky.social5I particularly liked the statement from Sepp Blatter, a man renowned for his moral and ethical compass
2thess.bsky.social3It took trump less than 10 seconds to f up the World Cup. This world needs adult supervision - quickly!
Scarlet Hood3I am just so shocked there was no white aryan male ready to step in and fill his red-carded shoes for him. Not one amongst the beige panted blue shirted white mask wearing hoo-hahs that marches in the Capital yesterday? No? It’s as if the US team is relying on descendants of immigrants to win…
Kat2#ETTD Everything Trump Touches Dies
PA1... and any team with any dignity & ethics would chose not to play the guy!
wombleunofficial.bsky.social1True. Infantino has always been scrupulously impartial and carefully avoided giving the merest hint of favouritism.
