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Norway caput coach, Stale Solbakken, has deed retired astatine FIFA’s determination to suspend the reddish paper shown to USA striker, Folarin Balogun.
Balogun was sent disconnected against Bosnia and Herzegovina and was acceptable to service a one-match ban.
But on Sunday, FIFA announced that helium would beryllium eligible to play against Belgium successful their last-32 clash.
The reversal is highly antithetic and the archetypal clip since 1962 that FIFA has allowed a subordinate to look successful a crippled erstwhile they would person been suspended.
Solbakken said: “It is simply a large mistake by FIFA. It is not a large conclusion. He got a reddish paper and the VAR concluded that it was a reddish card. That means you are suspended for 1 game.
“I deliberation what is truly atrocious astir that concern is, if the USA bushed Belgium, they volition ever person that other happening astir it.
“The Belgians volition beryllium furious. What astir the adjacent reddish card? What happens there? Will immoderate committee instrumentality it away? It’s a bad, bad, bad, atrocious determination that volition wounded the World Cup and the United States.”
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