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The Guardian - US
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Robert Reich

Trump’s World Cup intervention has tarnished the game

Infantino and Trump
‘Trump is showing the world once again that America doesn’t play by the rules.’ Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

I’m rooting for the US as we take on Belgium today in Seattle for a place in the World Cup quarterfinals.

But the game isn’t what it was – before Trump asked the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, to review the suspension of the US’s top scorer, striker Folarin Balogun, who got a red card in a match against Bosnia and Herzegovina and would otherwise have been suspended from Monday’s match.

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