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President Trump called FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, on Wednesday and asked him to reappraisal the suspension of the United States’ apical extremity scorer, Folarin Balogun astatine the 2026 World Cup.
Balogun was shown a reddish paper successful their crippled that nighttime against Bosnia and Herzegovina.
According to the New York Times, radical acquainted with the speech betwixt Trump and Infantino, assertion the American president asked for the one-match prohibition to beryllium overturned.
On Sunday, FIFA announced that Balogun 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.
It besides comes arsenic Infantino has spent years trying to curry favour with Trump.
Last year, FIFA created and handed Trump the FIFA Peace Prize amid the president’s public, but failed, run to triumph the Nobel Peace Prize.
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