“Suspension Removed” - Balogun Gets HUGE Win as FIFA Overturns Red Card

**Pat Bev** (0:00)
So you have this whole situation with World Cup.
We watch the game, he steps on his leg, we can't show it, because it's World Cup, they'll flag it, you can't, all these footage are saved by, I think, Fox.
And Balogun puts it, and he gets a red card, they kick him out. This is the guy that scored three goals for US. Everybody's like, you're taking out our best player. The guy didn't do it on purpose. Like in one of the games, there was a hand where the guy hits the head first, then it hits his hand, he says, no, no, hit him my head first. They're like, okay, it's not a penalty kick. In this case, they give the guy a red card. So then all of a sudden, rumor word comes out that Trump made a phone call to FIFA's president and says, hey, this is not acceptable. And then suddenly, yesterday, all over the place, the news is, hey, they lifted the red card and Balogun will be available to play today in today's big game against Belgium, which they could beat, by the way. And they're gonna need every help they can get. And if they got their main number one score, that scored more than anybody else in the game, that's a big help to them. Belgium's not happy, a lot of people online are saying, wait a minute, once you make the call, this is, you gotta set a precedent, you can never change it again, this has never happened in a history World Cup. What do you mean you're gonna change it just because somebody's making a phone call? This is why they don't trust politics and politicians are getting involved. Americans may be celebrating, those Americans that wanna see America win their first World Cup, they're celebrating. But other countries are saying, isn't this kinda like, this is not cool. So Tom, your thoughts on this with the red card.

**Tom** (1:24)
Well, I have two thoughts. And one is, I like it when sports gets it right. I like the electronic line keeping at Wimbledon. I like the electronics on strike zones in baseball. And I like replaying football. So I like it when they get it right. And I like it when they're consistent.
I am not a diehard soccer fan, but I get revved up for World Cup, and I get revved up for UEFA and Champions Cup. Because that's when like everything matters, everything's on the line, no one's taking a day off.
But what bothers me is that you look at all the video and you saw the messy play and the Balogun play were played side by side. The red card, no red card. I like the consistency. I'm just not sure I'm down with heads of state kind of weighing in a day after the game. The sport has to get it right for the sport.

**Pat Bev** (2:16)
So you're not with it?

**Tom** (2:19)
You know why?

**Pat Bev** (2:19)
You're an American.

**Tom** (2:20)
Because to be honest with you, if it went the other way, I would have lost my stuff.

**Pat Bev** (2:24)
I know. We would have lost it. But here's President's tweet.

**Tom** (2:26)
So I can't ignore that.

**Pat Bev** (2:27)
I know. I know. So here's thank you to FIFA for doing what was right and reversing the great, a great injustice. And by the wonder clips that's going on, that's President Trump's tweet. Wonder clips that's going viral. If you go a little bit higher, you just had it. Go a little bit higher, a little bit higher. Go back in and go higher. It was a clip of the referee shows the red card and Balogun, you have to see this, a little bit higher. Go one more higher. Right there. Watch this. Can you guys show this? So this shows, have you seen this?
Go back a little bit and turn on the audio.

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**Vinnie** (3:24)
You get a red card. Nah, bro, I have the Trump card. I win.

**Adam** (3:28)
What? That's not how you are.

**Vinnie** (3:30)
You get a red card.

**Pat Bev** (3:31)
That's funny. You can pause it right there. Okay, Vinny, where are you at with this?

**Vinnie** (3:34)
Well, first, we'll go back to the actual foul itself, Pat. So they immediately, the US. Soccer Team, not Trump, not anybody head of state, they fought the suspension. They argued FIFA misused the VAR by judging the intent instead of the simple review of the contact. Because if everybody that saw it, guys, he's fighting for the ball and comes down on his achilles, okay? And the player wasn't even injured, thank God. But then, US. Soccer CEO JT. Batson and COO Dan Helfrich led the appeal. They assembled a legal strategy and threatened to take the case to court of arbitration for sport, okay? And then White House attorneys were reportedly prepared to assist if necessary, okay? Then President Trump personally called Gianni Infantino and asked him to review. He didn't say, change it or else. And guys, let's just be honest, and for everybody that's out there that's watching, that's a sports fan, that's an American, the call was wrong. He wasn't trying to hurt anyone. It was accidental. Unlike last night, who was the player?