LAS VEGAS — The offer came with no strings attached, Folarin Balogun said. With the U.S. national team training in Orlando and Balogun's French club idled by an international break, American coach Anthony Hudson reached out with a quiet invitation for Balogun to come over for dinner.
The visit didn't stay quiet for long. When Balogun took to Instagram to post what he thought were generic photos of him posed inside a car and sitting on the grass, toweling off after a workout, U.S. Soccer fans went to work. A partially obscured wall behind the car was quickly linked to an Orlando pub. Another person studied the grass Balogun was sitting on and found it to be the same type the U.S. team was training on.
Balogun was in Florida.
