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He Could Have Just Taken the Win
The World Cup should have been an easy patriotic win: packed stadiums, global attention, American cities on display, and the U.S. team giving people something to cheer for. Instead, Donald Trump reportedly used his relationship with FIFA to push for a review of a red-card suspension, turning a clean national moment into another question about pressure, influence, and whether rules still apply when powerful people dislike the outcome. This episode looks at the Balogun controversy, FIFA’s credibility problem, the unfair position it put the U.S. players in, and what it reveals about Trump’s…
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