{"id":746944,"date":"2026-07-06T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/746944\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:30:13","slug":"did-fifa-cancel-us-player-suspension-after-trump-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/746944\/","title":{"rendered":"Did FIFA cancel US player suspension after Trump call?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football&#8217;s governing body <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/fifa-world-cup\/t-43747820\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA<\/a> is under fire for allegedly reversing a US footballer&#8217;s match suspension following an intervention from <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-president-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-israel-gaza-tariffs-trade-war\/t-19434433\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>US striker Folarin Balogun had been sent off the field last week following a red card in a game against Bosnia and Herzegovina. But an automatic one match suspension thereafter was suspended by FIFA after reports\u00a0emerged\u00a0that Trump had called FIFA boss Gianni Infantino complaining about it.<\/p>\n<p>Did FIFA bend its rules to favor Trump? Was Balogun&#8217;s suspension lifted so he could play a key match against <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/belgium\/t-19249259\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belgium<\/a>? Biresh Banerjee discusses with DW Sports Correspondent Jonathan Crane.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Football&#8217;s governing body FIFA is under fire for allegedly reversing a US footballer&#8217;s match suspension following an intervention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-746944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}