{"id":785143,"date":"2026-07-07T16:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/785143\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:31:14","slug":"overturn-this-belgium-players-perform-donald-trump-dance-to-celebrate-world-cup-win-over-usmnt-amid-furore-surrounding-folarin-balogun-ban-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/785143\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Overturn this!&#8217; &#8211; Belgium players perform Donald Trump dance to celebrate World Cup win over USMNT amid furore surrounding Folarin Balogun ban reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:start\">While the Belgian players were happy to mock the political side of the saga, head coach Rudi Garcia took a more diplomatic approach with the player at the centre of the storm. Garcia revealed that\u00a0Balogun came to talk\u00a0with him after the final whistle to discuss the controversy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">&#8220;I really liked that,&#8221; Garcia said when asked about the post-match conversation. &#8220;It\u2019s not his fault, he\u2019s not the one to blame and that\u2019s what I told him.&#8221; The manager insisted the pre-match drama didn&#8217;t distract his squad, adding: &#8220;Regardless of the US starting line-up, what really mattered to us is our game plan. The group is very mature. I told them what matters the most is us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That singular focus ultimately saw them dismantle the American defence and book a date with Spain in the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Belgian players were happy to mock the political side of the saga, head coach Rudi Garcia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2071,43,44,41,39,42,40,2957,370912,21418],"class_list":["post-785143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-belgium","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-usa","tag-usa-vs-belgium","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}